Evaluating the performance of your suppliers, a Procurement practice that may be agile!
Alma and Altaïs Conseil have combined their respective expertises in IT and in procurement excellence for offering eSRM, a web-based supplier risk solution that enables to manage suppliers’ performance and to track their non-conformances.
This solution is for any company, whatever their size or their organization, wishing to drive as simply, quickly and completely as possible the performance of their suppliers and / or willing to meet quality/ISO9001 requirements in terms of monitoring and evaluating suppliers’ performance.
Advantages & Benefits
- The functional richness of eSRM – to the fun of the sourcing professional – is the natural result of a strong field experience lived by many category/commodity managers
- The structured and collaborative process allows the right level of involvement of all stakeholders: sourcing professional, supplier, quality manager, technical contacts, …
- The simplicity and speed of use generate time savings for all stakeholders, particularly for the sourcing professional who can actually focus more on value-added tasks in the process
- The historical database and reporting capabilities enable the company to instantly prove its compliance with ISO9001 requirements regarding supplier performance’s evaluation and supplier non-conformances management
- The solution enables the company to track supplier’s profile and thus to check they have the appropriate capacities, facilities and certifications
- The administration of the solution is really easy
Main Features
- Supplier pre-qualification / Supplier information and profile management
- the sourcing professional can invite any potential supplier to complete their profile (identity data, financial data, certifications, references, …) in the system before deciding whether the potential supplier is pre-qualified or not
- any qualified supplier can update their profile when necessary or on request made by the sourcing professional
- Periodic supplier evaluation
- the sourcing professional creates and launches the evaluation in only a few minutes, follows it up at their rythm and adjusts it in real time if necessary
- the evaluators score the level of supplier performance in a few clicks, according to a set of criteria pre-defined at company level
- the supplier self assesses through their dedicated interface and submits their ideas of improvement in a very easy way
- the sourcing professional elaborates, finalises and manages – in a very flexible way – the supplier improvement plan including the actions for improvement and the related expected value
- Management of supplier non-conformances
- any company actor being in link with the supplier can declare in a few clicks any nonconformance that involves the supplier
- the supplier’s manager at company level coordinates – in a very flexible way – the technical and financial treatment of the non-conformance between the supplier and the right actors within the company
- Reporting
- any authorized employee (sourcing professional, Procurement manager, quality manager, …) can easily and instantly generate any report on the assessments performed or the non-conformances processed during a given period, for a list of sourcing professionals or a list of Procurement teams, for a list of suppliers, for a list of Sourcing categories, etc…
- Administration
- the general administrator of the solution manages all basic parameters in a very natural way and does not need to be an IT specialist
- the administrator of the Procurement team guarantees the list of the team members as well as the team supplier database; if there are several Procurement teams then there are several administrators
- Languages
- interface in French & English
- questionnaires, criteria & workflow messages are multi-lingual (i.e. you can choose a 3rd language)
- Technical aspects & pre-requisites
- web-based application accessible via any browser
- « Single Sign On » can be implemented if the company LDAP directory is open to the solution
- company users’ file to be integrated to the solution and associated protocol of updates to be implemented
- available in SaaS mode
Perspectives – Towards a complete solution for SRM / Supplier Risk Management
The approach developed by Alma and Altaïs Conseil is not intended to replace an ERP or a bidding online system, but to enable your company to complete its Procurement information system with a real SRM dimension covered in a way that combines agility and efficiency.
The next step for Alma and Altaïs Conseil is therefore to complete eSRM so that it covers the three components of supplier risk: supplier qualification with a full scoring system, contract management and supplier performance management (the latest being already covered by the version currently available).
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To know more, please upload the eSRM product flyer. You may also want to check out a customer testimonial.
The best is certainly that you ask for an online demonstration that will provide you with a quick & concrete overview of eSRM!
