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.

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.