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Vendor Portal

The Vendor Portal provides a single web interface for your suppliers to log-in and view open orders and balances as well as to submit information to you such as electronic invoices, delivery notifications, acknowledgements and more. These communications are sent directly to and from your SAP system thus allowing rapid interaction between you and your vendors.
Vendor Portal allow companies and their vendors to share specific management information for mutual benefit, using low-cost Internet technology. Vendor Portal is the one stop shop for all supplier needs, where in each vendor has a tailored view of its data. It allows access to only the specific information the company wants vendors to see. This controlled view provides access for suppliers and security for companies. It is seamlessly  integrated with the  SAP system .

Functional Activities

• The Vendor Portal comprises the following components:
• Purchase Coordination
•  Purchase Orders and Delivery Schedules
•  Order Acknowledgements
•  Advanced Shipment Notification
• Invoice and Payments
•  Handling of rejected materials


Vendor Portal Capabilities

• View Purchase Orders (All Types)
• Schedule Vs Supply report
• Post Advance Shipping Note and View status
• Post Invoice
• Goods and Services Receipt Information
• Vendor Account Information
• Details of the Debit Notes Stock status:  Displays the stock status based on plant and date range
• Ability to control what vendors see

Reporting Capabilities
• Purchase
 Open POs and Delivery Schedules
 Delivery confirmations pending
 Advanced Shipment Notifications (ASN)
 Pending Goods Receipt against open ASN
 Goods Receipt
 Delivery Schedule
 Schedule v/s Supply
Accounts
 Payment Details
 Warranty Debit Notes

  Circulars


Benefits of the Vendor Portal
 Immediate transfer of PO and Delivery Schedules to supplier allowing for a more agile supply chain and reduction in lead times
 Instant receipt of order status allowing better planning
 Reduction in transaction processing time during goods receipt
  Reduction in goods receipt errors due to real-time collaboration
  Elimination of costs associated with transfer of physical documents such as PO, Release Schedules
 Automate and speed up operational and financial  processes.
 On line Payment Status reduces the volume of supplier phone calls into AP asking  about payment status by providing them with on line status look-up.

Our Vendor Portal References

• Customers : Hero Honda Motors Ltd, HCC
• Business Need : To  facilitate all suppliers to access hosted orders for carrying out on-line transactions.
• Solution : Vendor Portal
• Technical details : ECC 6.0,  Netweaver 7.0

Benefits realized due to the Vendor Portal implementation

• Collaboration with all suppliers
• Enhanced speed of entire supply chain
• More transparency and reduced communication gaps for error free transactions.
• Greater Accuracy  due to tighter integration with SAP R/3
• Improved process of paying vendors
• Reduction in buyer resources hence cost