- Vendor & Supplier ManagementYou may need a smarter management tool to help you manage the increasing vendors and suppliers. 8MSaaS SRM provides the following comprehensive facilities to help you manage them effectively:
- Segmentation management
- Open Recruitment & Pre-qualification
- Qualification, Grading & Blacklist
- Vendor & Supplier Master
- Delivery Quality Scoring
- Supplier Performance Appraisal
- Segmentation8MSaaS SRM supports the following user-defined categories to segment vendors and suppliers for filtering and policy control:
- Grade
- Region
- Industry
- Service Type
- Product Type
- Not yet qualified
- Unqualified
- Qualified
- Blacklist
- High Performance
8MSaaS SRM also distinguishes different contact types such as the following:
- General
- Marketing
- Technical
- Legal
- Delivery/Collection
- Sales
- Tender
- Support
- Finance
- Others
- Open Recruitment & Pre-qualification
- Qualification, Grading & BlacklistThe qualification and grading are controllable processes in 8MSaaS. An enterprise can check the qualification approval policy and set up the approval process and a vendor or supplier would only be qualified if it conforms to the process.
- Vendor & Supplier Master
The minimum information to create a new vendor or supplier is just its name. However, 8MSaaS allows the enterprise to incrementally capture wealthy information of the supplier. 8MSaaS also allows the vendor or supplier to add or change its own product and service information including prices and discounts. This would great save the enterprise’s effort of keeping each vendor or supplier’s product and service information up-to-date.
8MSaaS was designed to deal with global vendor or supplier name problem and would be able to identify the same vendor or supplier with different names and also allow the linking of the information and transaction records of the same vendor but with different names together.
- Delivery Quality Scoring
8MSaaS automatically tracks the following measurement information during the “delivery & acceptance” process and aggregate and summarize measurements results in real-time:
- Price Rating (1 Worst 10 Best)
- Price/Performance Rating (1 Worst 10 Best)
- Deliverable Lateness Rate (%)
- Deliverable Rejection Rate (%)
- Service Failure Rate (%)
- Price Deviation from Benchmark Price (%)
- Average Number of Days Late
- Late Frequency (Number of Lateness / Total)
- Delivery Rejection Rate (%)
- Complain Frequency (Number of Complains / Total)
- Tender Invitation Rate (Number of Times Invited / Total Number of Tenders)
- Tender Response Rate (Number of Times Responded / Total Number of Times Invited)
- Tender Hit Rate (Number of Wins / Total Number of Times Responded)
- Tender Rejection Rate (Number of Losses / Total Number of Times Responded)
The automatically collected objective performance data is very use for quick sanity checks. They are also very useful when being combined with subjective performance appraisal data from the users who directly receiving products and services from the vendors and suppliers.
- Vendor & Supplier Performance Appraisal
8MSaaS allows the user to set up the questionnaire for performance appraisal for the target vendor or supplier and 8MSaaS can automatically send the questionnaire to the appraisers specified by the user and calculate the result based on the pre-assigned score for each answer for each question in the questionnaire.