Supplier Modules
ExpertSupplier includes TradeNet modules for:
- Sales Order Management
- Catalog & Contract Management
- Business Intelligence
- Purchase Order Management
Sales Order Management
- Simplify procedure for preparing, sending and receiving sales order documents
- Trade electronically with customers worldwide
- Eliminate manual re-typing, faxing and emailing
- Reduce communication costs
- Improve data quality
- Reduce quote to order cycle time
- Optimize process control through reports and key performance indicators
- Improve competitiveness and market reach through marketing services
Catalog & Contract Management
- Adds additional capabilities to better manage your product catalogs, customer pricing terms and general procedures for managing your contracts
- Achieve accurate product specification on orders
- Easily provide generic or company- specific electronic catalogs to customers
- Optimize customer contract compliance
- Update catalogs as often as needed
- Map your parts numbers to buyers’ numbers
- Create customer profiles to manage pricing guidelines
- Flexible and versatile data formats
- Provide customer specific or generic catalogs
Two types of catalog services are available:
- ShipCat. A CD-based catalog that can be used as a companion to ShipServ ShipLink requisition tool or as a stand-alone reference tool. Users browse through the tree structure, search for key words, look up detailed specifications, even view digital images of specific products.
- ShipServ Pages. Make your entire catalog searchable on ShipServ Pages, the world’s leading online maritime supplier directory. With your catalog on Pages you’re guaranteed to increase your visbility in front of over 30,000 visitors a month.
Even if you’re not ready to publish your catalog, the information can be used to accelerate the handling of electronic transactions. Use TradeNet to hold parts lists with list prices, customer profiles, and contract information (including discounts and negotiated item prices).
You even make your catalog available to your customers – givin them the ability to load your latest product and pricing information straight into their purchasing/preventive maintenance system.
Business Intelligence
- Optimize process control through reports and key performance indicators
- Monitor your sales performance
The reports present relevant trading data in a number of predefined formats, allowing users to analyse all relevant sales data – regardless of which customer the data originates from. If you have multiple offices, ExpertSupplier provides the ability to consolidate reporting across offices in order to monitor relationships with key accounts, track key statistics, and improve consistency.
Purchase Order Management
- Simplify the process of exchanging purchasing documents, such as requests for quotes and purchase orders, with your own suppliers
- Trade electronically with suppliers worldwide
- Eliminate manual re-typing, faxing and emailing
- Improve data quality
- Achieve accurate product specification on orders
- Improve purchasing strategy as more time can be used for sourcing and contract negotiations
- Connect quickly to your own supplier community by utilizing ShipServ’s supplier enablement services