Teamcenter Supplier Program Management provides you with the ability to communicate with your suppliers who need to participate in programs, even if they are outside of your Teamcenter environment. You can include suppliers in your program execution projects by assigning them tasks and tracking their deliverables. Suppliers will be notified of tasks, and leverage the secure and easy-to-use supplier web portal to view task requests and details, download reference files, upload deliverables, and sign-off on their tasks.

The intuitive nature of the supplier web portal minimizes supplier training needs, saving you time and money. Your project managers can select suppliers outside of your Teamcenter to include as project members and assign tasks to them. Suppliers receive notification of task requests, sign in to the supplier web portal using their assigned credentials. From the web portal, suppliers can download information, upload deliverables and sign off on tasks. The web portal allows them to track assignments, due dates and deliveries. Project managers gain complete visibility into supplier statuses.

Support for industry program standards around supplier processes and visibility into these processes is key to keeping your programs on track. Capabilities delivered with Supplier Program Management help you execute programs efficiently by including suppliers as part of the execution process. Leveraging the schedule manager, you can create project plans with tasks that have prerequisites and deliverables managed in Teamcenter. Project plans give you the ability to record task dependencies and manage critical paths, allowing you to look at the full schedule and monitor critical paths instead of all activities. You can assign some or all tasks to suppliers who are outside of your Teamcenter environment and manage their activity as part of the overall program schedule. This functionality and the management of standard project templates supports processes like Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP).