Leverage Teamcenter ® to reduce costs and cycle times around your supplier sourcing processes. Direct Materials Sourcing provides efficient early bidding processes featuring RFx (request for information, proposal or quotation) template authoring, controlled processes for managing events including multiple round processing, automatic tracking and communication, detailed cost breakdowns, bid analysis, and award nominations. Authorized bidders can receive and access bid requests bundled together with part specifications, reference data, and instructions using a secure supplier portal. Bidders can then use the supplier portal to submit their responses. With Direct Materials Sourcing in Teamcenter, you can understand cost drivers early in the product lifecycle and understand supply chain impact before changes are approved.
Decrease costs and cycle times with Direct Materials Sourcing
Direct Materials Sourcing
Direct Materials Sourcing
Leverage Teamcenter® to reduce costs and cycle times around your supplier sourcing processes. Direct Materials Sourcing provides efficient early bidding processes featuring RFx (request for information, proposal or quotation) template authoring, controlled processes for managing events including multiple round processing, automatic tracking and communication, detailed cost breakdowns, bid analysis, and award nominations. Authorized bidders can receive and access bid requests bundled together with part specifications, reference data, and instructions using a secure supplier portal. Bidders can then use the supplier portal to submit their responses. With Direct Materials Sourcing in Teamcenter, you can understand cost drivers early in the product lifecycle and understand supply chain impact before changes are approved.
Reach your cost objectives with Direct Materials Sourcing. Read more about these features below.
Intuitive supplier web portal supporting multiple use cases
Leverage Teamcenter Direct Materials Sourcing to minimize training requirements and ensure that participants in your sourcing processes can collaborate with sourcing sponsors effectively and efficiently. Suppliers can easily view and download sourcing event and related data information from a Teamcenter sponsor, and submit bid data back to a sponsor with an easy-to-use, secure supplier web portal. The web portal supports a communication center where respondents can ask you questions regarding RFx events, and receive your responses.
Round-trip sourcing integrated with product development processes
With Teamcenter Direct Materials sourcing, you can extend the influence of purchasing within your organization by closely linking its activities with product developers and other functional groups. This opens up the door to more strategic opportunities to cut costs. Shared processes such as New Product Introduction (NPI), Engineering Change Request (ECR), and Engineering Change Notice (ECN) can be streamlined and specifications can be harmonized, enabling part standardization and re-use, and value analysis can be applied to yield cost-saving-specification improvements.
Secure information exchange with RFx respondents
The Teamcenter Direct Materials Sourcing solution provides the highest level of secure communications between the Teamcenter sponsor and RFx respondents. Teamcenter enables you to streamline your direct materials sourcing process with key capabilities, including: bid event creation, notification to suppliers, control processes for event management, inclusion of part and reference information, a supplier web portal for receiving bid requests and bid proposals, automatic tracking and communication, detailed cost breakdowns, bid analysis, and award nominations.
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