Supplier Registration

• Detailed supplier registration form with a standardized registration process for all current and potential suppliers

• Advanced registration process for customized data capture using a powerful survey tool

• Ability to capture supplier corporate demographics, multiple locations and various location-specific contacts, tax status, confidentiality agreements, commodity-specific capabilities, and geographical service areas

• Supplier registration process with best practices for supplier diversity management

• Certificate upload to the supplier’s profile

Automatic de-duplication process • blocking duplicate vendor data

• Current supplier data hosting with open or invite-only-based registration

• Streamline supplier registration and on-boarding

• Ensure supplier due diligence information is complete and up to date

• Reduce supply risk at the source – before it’s too late

• Enable a common instance of “truth” regarding supplier information across an extended, global organization

• Increase use of diversity suppliers across your organization by facilitating registration and identification

• Automate labor-intensive tasks such as registering new suppliers, maintaining supplier information, tracking diversity certifications and insurance details, W‑8/W‑9s forms and other certifications

Prequalification and Automated Routing of Potential Suppliers

• Collect due diligence supplier information and documentation:

• Commodity-specific capabilities – scored and ranked by your unique requirements

• W-8s/W-9s, audited or reviewed financials, background checks, detailed capabilities profiles, safety audits, risk assessments

• External/ internal reference checks

• Business/corporate/credit verification

• External business profile reports

• Background check, judgments, liens

• OSHA and EPA violations, OFAC/SDN list check

• Ability to collect additional intelligence about the supplier from references, supplier self-assessment, third parties authorized, or any internal users

• Automated assignment of prequalified potential suppliers to appropriate sourcing teams or commodity managers – all based on your predefined business rules and assignments

• Automate commodity-specific prequalification of suppliers based on your organization’s unique requirements – routed to the appropriate commodity teams

• Increase and simplify access to and use of qualified potential suppliers

• Use sourcing teams efficiently in dealing with prequalified suppliers, while retaining intelligence on all registering potential suppliers

• Reduce federal and state risk, avoiding fines and other penalties from noncompliance

• Ensure competition by introducing new competitors into your sourcing processes

Management Tools and Outreach

• Unalterable audit trails for activity tracking and management

• Automatic alerts and notifications to suppliers/internal clients to advise of status changes or scheduled activities

• Public and private outreach event calendar

• Budget tracking and measure effectiveness

• Intuitive and powerful mail merge allowing easily communication with all or any subset of your current and potential suppliers

• Automatic RFx notifications and periodic profile-update notices

• Track activities and manage suppliers

• Improve compliance monitoring

• Enhance communications with all or any subset of your current and potential suppliers

• Manage your outreach event calendar

• Measure effectiveness of outreach dollars

Supplier Reporting

• Standard searches filter any subset of supplier base data

• Standard or custom report generation to analyze supplier base

• Develop targeted outreach efforts

• Pinpoint the right supply base for re-sourcing, new production introductions, and related spending

Sourcing Directory

• Integrate with CVM Supplier Locator to:

• Search all your current or active suppliers

• Search all registering suppliers

• Search all suppliers in the CVM Master Supplier Data Warehouse

• Find qualified diverse suppliers

• Insure that suppliers – diversity or otherwise – are compared “apples to apples,” based on the same fields of information

• Share information on suppliers with other internal users