Successful supply chain management starts with your suppliers

Order processing – standardised, digitised and within the workflow.

‌Many manufacturers still email orders as PDF files and manually enter order confirmations into their own ERP systems. ‌These daily activities are not only error-prone and labour-intensive, they also complicate communication between the manufacturer and the material supplier.

‌cpa.SupplierPortal enables digitalisation of the entire order processing with your suppliers. ‌Confirmations of complete or partial consignments and notifications are forwarded to you by the supplier in real time. ‌This also means that your purchasing department no longer needs to compare orders manually with the corresponding order confirmations. ‌Configured workflows ensure transparency of your goods status at any time and automatically remind you in the event of a timeout.

‌Minimise costs and errors when placing orders with your suppliers and benefit from the enormous time savings through the digitalisation of your processes.

Exchange documents digitally in real time for transparency and sustainability.

‌cpa.SupplierPortal simplifies all document exchanges necessary for order processing in both a digital and uncomplicated way. ‌No matter whether you wish to look at contracts, long-term supplier declarations or any accompanying documents, these are all available for you to view whenever you wish in cpa.SupplierPortal. This is the case for you as a manufacturer as well as for your suppliers.

‌Benefit from the advantages of using a central system for processing, communicate clearly and sustainably and consolidate relationships with your suppliers.

• ‌Ordering and invoicing on paper are no longer necessary.
• ‌Email volume per order is reduced.
• ‌Transparent document exchange facilitates communication and enables the best conditions for good supplier relationship management.

Order monitoring – never miss a deadline again.

‌With operational procurement, you are aware of the challenges of working with multiple suppliers. ‌You need to manage hundreds of orders and have to keep track of partial and complete deliveries, as well as take delivery rescheduling into account. ‌

cpa.SupplierPortal allows you to monitor process steps from order placement to confirmation and delivery. ‌What is more, you can search cpa.SupplierPortal with ease and in a performant way, including drill-down to order item level. ‌With the aid of dashboard overviews, you can look ahead to the respective order status. ‌And with configurable reminder functions, you will no longer miss any key deadlines for your current orders.

Compliance and data historisation. Store documents in a legally secure manner so they are accessible at all times.

‌Nowadays data security is more important than ever. ‌Every document stored in cpa.SupplierPortal is archived in the ShoeFactory platform's document management system (DMS) in an audit-proof manner.

‌Furthermore every change made to information relevant to an order is logged and time-stamped. ‌This means that you can retrospectively view and track all changes to order data.

‌All documents in cpa.SupplierPortal are stored in an appropriate context so that they can be found faster. ‌For example, documents relating to its order are always most suitably filed.