SCT is an web-based software package and database. SCT contains a comprehensive, searchable database of your suppliers’ profiles enabling sourcing specialists to quickly identify approved providers of products and services. SCT’s web-based design can connect your multi-tier supply chain – providing multiple levels of your supplier/partners a window into your approved supplier base to reduce new product introduction time. SCT provides sourcing specialists a critical tool for product and service sourcing. Built on an open architecture platform, SCT can integrate with your existing ERP system to reduce work load and provide up-to-date supplier information.
SCT Provides The Following Features:
- A detailed supplier profile database and search engine
- The ability to perform complex searches of your supply chain
- System administration functions to control access, data integrity and approvals
- Drill down capability for detailed supplier information
- Capability to quickly communicate with suppliers
- Supplier profile maintenance functions
- Supplier capacity information
- Manage approved and potential suppliers
- SCT can be implemented standalone in as little as 20 days or integrated with open ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle or PeopleSoft
Implementing SCT provides the following benefits:
- Reduce new product to market timeframe
- Share supplier information between sourcing specialists and across company divisions
- Visibility of all supplier capabilities throughout your supply chain
- Eliminate the time, cost and redundancy of the countless spreadsheets and access databases of supplier capabilities across your company divisions!
- Quickly locate materials that are in short supply
- Confidentiality of vendors in your supply chain
- Slash procurement & supplier selection time
- Easy to implement, easy to use, easy to maintain
- Supports your lead time reduction strategy
- Authorized suppliers can have visibility across your supply chain reducing their sourcing time and effort!
- Quickly identify suppliers in a “make vs. buy” analysis for existing parts
- Objective bidding – consider all approved suppliers… there may be suppliers that are overlooked
- Shorten the time required to locate approved international suppliers
- Reduce buyer and engineer workload and training time
