Supplier Management

Supplier Management

Proactively manage your supplier engagement

Proactively manage your supplier engagement

Onboard Faster. Reduce Risk. Stay Compliant.

Supplier Online is a ready-to-run SaaS solution that allows seamless digital onboarding of new suppliers. Dynamically determine risk and assign the supplier required self-assessment questionnaires. Score and evaluate answers, collect and validate certificates and approve Vendor onboarding. Enjoy the convenience and simplicity of Supplier Management Online for onboarding and self-service to improve engagement, reduce queries and save time.

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Supplier Risk Assessment and Evaluation

Anticipate risks, assess compliance, and streamline assessments for informed decisions, safeguarding your supply chain.

Streamline Vendor Onboarding

Efficiently onboard vendors for multi-dimensional process improvements. Save time across teams and enhance supplier relationships with intuitive online interactions, saving costs and enabling a responsive supply chain.

Efficient Online Supplier Compliance Management

Manage online certificates to strengthen compliance, minimize risk, gain operational efficiencies, and manage expiry in a complex regulatory environment.

Intuitive Supplier Self Service

Empower vendors with self-service for stronger relationships, better data, and resilient supply chains. Reduce queries on your procurement and AP teams.

6 Processes Managed by Supplier Management Online

Perform Supplier and Vendor Risk Assessment

Conduct Supplier and Vendor Risk Assessments including sustainability and ESG alignment. Rapidly deploy, collect, and report against exposures with minimized response delay and optimized feedback-loops. 

Onboard a New Vendor or Supplier

Invite and guide a new vendor or supplier through the onboarding process with a simple interface designed to maximize comprehension and reduce support time.

Manage Certificates and Qualifications

Request, obtain and validate the mandated insurances and certificates prior to doing business. Artificial Intelligence captures key meta-data used in proactive expiry and rescreening processes and in detailed compliance analytics.

Proactively Renew Contracts

Stay ahead of contract renewals with automated tracking and proactive management. Supplier Online ensures that key contracts are captured, monitored, and renewed on time. Improve visibility in your contract base – ensuring compliance, cost control, and uninterrupted supplier engagements.

Quickly and Securely Setup Vendors in SAP

A comprehensive Fiori Solution manages the integration of vendor master data to your SAP system. Rapidly deploy and reduce the cost and time of expensive integration with a prebuilt solution.

Engage Suppliers and Vendors with Self-Service

Promote collaboration by provisioning a range of online self-services highly valued by vendors and suppliers. Alert suppliers of pending renewals. 

Supplier Risk Assessment Process

Streamline your supplier management process by configuring the necessary documents and self-assessment questionnaires aligned with your internal supplier risk assessment criteria. Invite suppliers and vendors to register and guide them to complete the assigned self-assessments and upload the necessary certificates. Review their submissions and take appropriate workflow-step specific actions based on the provided information.

Utilize the reporting feature to keep track of active, pending, and outstanding certificates and self-assessment questionnaires. Stay up to date with action items in your personal worklist – making it easy to see outstanding work and where bottlenecks are occurring. Assess the alignment of supplier activities with your organization’s sustainability and ESG criteria to ensure they meet your standards and goals.

Configurable Supplier Risk Assessment Questionnaires

Adopt baseline or configure your own Self Assessment Questionnaires and assignment criteria. Assess alignment to Sustainability and ESG goals and frameworks.

Automated Risk Assessment

Automatically calculate and assign risk scores based on predefined criteria, allowing for categorization and prioritization of vendors based on their risk levels.

Reporting and Analytics

Detailed reporting tools to analyze risk assessment data, identify trends, and support decision-making. Understand your vendor alignment to your sustainability and ESG criteria.

Vendor and Supplier Onboarding

Provide Suppliers and Vendors with an intuitive online portal to enter all requested information following a guided process. Data is validated on entry and mandated information and due dates are clearly displayed. Submitted data is reviewed, any questions or queries are managed through the workflow and request process via the inbox/outbox, ensuring the Vendor or Supplier is always aware of their Onboarding status.

The Procurement Team uses the corresponding Organizational Portal to invite, assess risk, review, and validate all supplier or vendor submissions. This process ensures thorough and efficient vendor and supplier management from start to finish.

Automated Workflow Management

Automated risk-based steps in the onboarding process ensure efficiency and consistency. All tasks are assigned appropriately and appear in respective worklists for available actions.

Progress Tracking and Document Submission Management

Visibility of due dates, grace periods, progress and status encourage timely completion of requested data. Automated reminder notifications support vendors and suppliers to meet deadlines efficiently.

APIs to Support Integration

Full suite of APIs to support onboarding integration to ERP Systems. Supplier Online is designed to natively integrate with SAP via its own dedicated Fiori interface – there is minimal work required.

Maintain Certificates and Qualifications

Configure your vendor portal to drive and automate your certificate collection and validation process. Assign new certificate requirements at any time and rely on the renewal process to keep certificates current and valid.

AI assistance and virus scanning improves data quality, ease of use and security.

Reporting and analytics of the status across all certificates and suppliers is provided. Supplier non-compliance can be configured to automatically trigger mitigation actions in your ERP – such as a Blocks.

Automated Renewal of Certificates

Countdown of days to renewal is visibly displayed and automated email reminders assist timely certificate renewal. Automated ERP blocking ensures compliance. Analytics and reporting capabilities provide up-to-date status.

AI Certificate Assistance and Security

Uploaded certificates are interpreted by AI and meta-data auto populated. An anti-virus layer ensures all documents are scanned before they are processed and saved.

Configurable Service Types

Configure the solution to require certificates based on the type of service, entity, country, upfront-risk and value of supply. Configure certificates as mandatory, with grace periods or optionally not required. Further specify whether an invalid mandated certificate will block the Vendor or Supplier Account.

Proactively Renew Contracts

Ensure seamless contract renewals with automated tracking, proactive notifications, and AI-driven insights. Reduce last-minute contract negotiations and eliminate renewal uncertainty by configuring lead times, setting alerts, and maintaining complete visibility over your contract portfolio. Stay ahead of expirations, control costs, and ensure uninterrupted supplier engagements.

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Great Visibility 

Gain real-time access to critical contract data through structured meta-data tracking. Instantly view key details such as contract terms, expiration dates, renewal conditions, and compliance status, ensuring complete transparency across your supplier agreements.

Automated Renewal

Eliminate manual follow-ups by configuring renewal lead times and automated workflows. Proactively schedule renewal processes, assign approvals, and notify stakeholders well in advance—ensuring business continuity and predictable workload distribution.

AI Contract Summary

Leverage AI to extract key contract details, renewal terms, and risk factors from agreements. Receive automated insights and summaries, helping teams make informed renewal decisions faster and more efficiently. AI-driven analytics highlight critical clauses, obligations, and renewal risks, allowing procurement teams to stay ahead.

Quickly and Securely Setup Vendors in SAP

Seamlessly manage the creation, modification, and approval of vendor master data in SAP with a comprehensive Fiori solution. The system enables structured onboarding requests, synchronized data exchanges, and full workflow visibility, ensuring efficiency, accuracy, and control over vendor management.

Setting up New Vendor in SAP

Integrated SAP Vendor Management

IQX Supplier Online delivers tight, pre-delivered bi-directional integration with SAP. Onboarding requests can be initiated directly in SAP Fiori and seamlessly integrated into Supplier Online, or they can originate within Supplier Online and flow back into SAP. This integration ensures efficiency, accuracy, and complete control over vendor data management.

Controlled & Auditable Vendor Management

The integration provides full visibility and control over vendor approvals, reducing risks associated with inconsistent or duplicate records. Every vendor request and modification follows a structured workflow, ensuring that approvals are tracked, documented, and fully auditable for compliance and reporting.

Extend Functionality Beyond SAP

Utilize highly-integrated SAP solutions to dramatically extend the capability of your existing system. All existing benefits of your supplier and vendor management are retained – whilst improving all aspects of the onboarding process.

Vendor and Supplier Self Service

Empower vendors and suppliers to self-manage their profiles and business information, including contacts, ordering emails, addresses, bank accounts, and customers. Requested changes to data are efficiently managed through the outbox, and APIs are available for seamless integration with ERP systems.

Self-service of Invoice and PO information reduces procurement and accounts payable queries.

The task badge count and associated inbox provide vendors and suppliers with a comprehensive view of open tasks related to onboarding and compliance. User Management allows the vendor or supplier admin to maintain users, assign roles and perform password resets.

Security features include Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and notification of unusual activity, tighter role-based data restrictions and banking-related change notifications.

Maintain Vendor and Supplier Profile Data

  • Ability to maintain contacts, addresses, bank accounts and sites.
  • Inbox and outbox functionality to assist user to track pending actions.
  • API to pass changed data to ERP systems for integration.

View Transactional Status

  • Track the status of invoices, payments and approvals through the portal.
  • See open POs with associated details.
  • Understand the progress of onboarding, certificate renewal or rescreening related self assessment questionnaires.

Security and User Management

  • Secure Portal with MFA.
  • Full user management to assign additional team members with appropriate roles.
  • Password reset and user deactivation functionality.

Streamline Your Supplier Management

Optimize vendor and supplier risk management and compliance with Supplier Management Online. Schedule your free demo today and streamline supplier management, supplier engagement, risk assessment, certificate compliance, and onboarding processes for a more efficient and resilient supply chain.