The Value of Partnership

Drive supply chain efficiencies while strengthening supplier relationships with data-driven decisions.

A Collaborative Trading Partner Ecosystem A strong supply chain is built upon an effective supplier relationship management program. Establishing approved key metrics for on-time shipments and invoicing helps you better manage inventory and customer deliveries. Using scorecards and dashboards to keep tabs on these metrics gives you a clear view into how suppliers are performing. A well-managed data quality process combined with cloud-based business intelligence software lets you access information from anywhere, facilitating positive collaboration across the value chain.

• Improve supplier management
• Strengthen business relationships
• Improve supply chain decision-making
• Drive quality and reduce errors

Features

• **Integration: **For suppliers who can connect directly to your systems as well as those who can't, Epicor provides a fully managed B2B integration solution. With years of experience doing hundreds of successful ERP/EDI integrations, we can connect to almost any back-office system.
• **Improved Decision Making: **Make real-time, data-driven supply decisions to respond to your customers more quickly and accurately.
• **Lean on the Experts: **You and your suppliers don't need any technical expertise. We work closely with you to help implement, migrate, and manage your data solution.
• **The “Perfect Order”: **Suppliers can be certain they are shipping the right product at the right time for optimal customer satisfaction.

Benefits

• **Improved Supplier Management: **Establish a single source of truth for managing supplier dashboards, analytics, and achievements. Share results and metrics with suppliers to drive online collaboration while meeting key goals.
• **Strengthen Business Relationships: **As you build your supplier management process, Epicor can help you with everything from onboarding a new supplier to communicating electronically at all stages of the supply chain.
• **Improve Supply Chain Decision Making: **A single source of truth for supply chain data requires a strong data management process, intelligent integration technology, and full-stack business intelligence tools. Epicor cognitive ERP platforms can provide you with a complete system for improving supply chain decision-making.