Teamcenter for SRM supplier management

Teamcenter
Teamcenter for SRM supplier management
Teamcenter for SRM supplier management
fact sheet
Siemens PLM Software
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Summary
Teamcenter ® software’s supplier relationship management (SRM) capabilities allow you to monitor, track and manage your suppliers on
an enterprise basis. By enabling you to capture and manage information about individual suppliers, Teamcenter’s supplier management
solution lets your procurement teams extend their suppler knowledge and visibility, increase their negotiation leverage, make more
effective sourcing decisions and evaluate supplier performance.
Benefits for your
procurement organization
Centralizes and standardizes your
supplier management processes
Enables you to measure the overall
health of your supplier management
programs at a single glance
Reduces process inefficiencies and
sub-optimal coordination by
enabling your product development,
finance and procurement teams to
work with your suppliers
Manages a full spectrum of suppliers
from low complexity to high
collaboration relationships
Provides fingertip access to more
reliable and current supplier
information at a lower cost
Streamlines communications and
sourcing event management by
providing real-time access to
supplier information
Benefits to product
development
Facilitates supplier and procurement
collaboration during the early stage
of product development – so that
you can design cost out of your
products
Shortens your design process, so
that you can release your products
more quickly and cost effectively
As an integrated part of
Teamcenter’s SRM
capabilities, procurement
teams can use Teamcenter’s
supplier management
solution to identify, engage
and evaluate suppliers within
their company’s PLM
environment.
Today’s supplier
management challenges
After years of successful yet
diminishing savings from
strategic sourcing initiatives,
CFOs and CPOs continue to be challenged by the need to determine how to achieve the next
significant return on value from today’s global supply markets. While companies have received cost
savings from traditional sourcing levels, such as value concentration and best price evaluations, they
still face challenges beyond these initiatives.
While today’s global economy increases the need to identify and manage a global supplier base,
entrenched suppliers raise the complexity of certain strategic relationships. These challenges drive
the need for ever greater collaboration between you and your suppliers.
Many companies address these challenges by investing in sourcing technologies and supplier
management solutions. However, these solutions often fall short because:
• A “one-size-fits-all” approach fails to address today’s real-world complexities
• Software solutions fail to comprehensively account for today’s sourcing processes
• Companies fail to strategically adopt sourcing solutions across all stakeholder communities

fact sheet
Teamcenter
Feature checklist
Supplier on-boarding
•Supplier self-registration
•Supplier maintenance of own data
•Pre-population of suppliers from
other applications
Data collection
•Automatic data capture in standard
database
•Management of general company
data
•Category-specific capability and
capacity data
•Data collection via online survey
from suppliers or buyers
•Import/export data to other
applications
Survey content
•Online development and automatic
publishing
•Mandatory question-setting option
•Specification that certain questions
are private to buyers
•Customized buyer pages
Analysis
•Scorecards calculated from survey
data and external data feeds
•Standard and custom searches and
reports
•Export to Excel
Intuitive interface
•Flexible, customizable format for
data collection that supports all
question types
•Ability to attach files to posted
surveys
•Library functionality to store
templates for copy and reuse
Globalization
•Multi-currency options, multilanguage
capability and custom
time zone display
•Localization support
Secure integrated platform
•Role-based user security model
•Integration with existing missioncritical
systems, through defined
data feeds
•Customized screens to
incorporate customer branding
and preferences
•Teamcenter for SRM single sign-on
Using Teamcenter’s supplier management capabilities
At the most basic level, you can use Teamcenter to establish a supplier relationship portal for your
PLM environment. Teamcenter provides your suppliers with self-registration and record maintenance
capabilities they can use to profile themselves and actively participate in your requirements definition,
product definition and product development processes.
Supplier-provided profiles include various kinds of information ranging from contact and general
financial data to capacity and descriptive capabilities. In turn, procurement teams can search through
this collected base of supplier information across multiple dimensions, including a client-specific
sourcing tree. As a result, Teamcenter enables team members to quickly find, select and monitor
prospective suppliers through a variety of assessment, status setting and performance scorecarding
capabilities.
You can extend Teamcenter’s supplier management capabilities beyond the narrow confines of a
supplier registration portal by establishing an intelligent platform that you can use to:
• Qualify your suppliers on multiple levels
• Encourage suppliers to self-administer their respective profiles
• Enable sourcing teams to evaluate prospective suppliers on the basis of a procurement’s financial
requirements, product profile, and/or production capabilities
• Share supplier information with other Teamcenter SRM solutions, including Teamcenter’s
collaborative RFP and internet negotiation (auctioning) solutions
Proven results
• More than 275 companies in 60 industries use Teamcenter for SRM
• Over $200 billion in spend source has been managed by Teamcenter for SRM
• Sourcing cycle reductions of 50 percent have been managed by Teamcenter for SRM
Contact
Siemens PLM Software
Americas 800 498 5351
Europe +44 (0) 1276 702000
Asia-Pacific 852 2230 3333
www.siemens.com/ugs
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