Supplier Enablement: Supply Chain Supplier Enablement Portal Software

Manhattan Associates’ Supplier Enablement solution is a secure, online portal that facilitates real-time collaboration between you, your suppliers and other relevant trading partners to improve communications and business process execution for your distribution center operations and across your upstream supply chain.

By enabling collaboration on a unified web-based platform, Supplier Enablement allows any supplier with an Internet browser to become a part of your automated supply chain. As a result, you can work with key business suppliers and trading partners to coordinate:

• PO Management: Automate time-consuming manual purchase orders, eliminate paper, view the upstream supply chain for more predictable cycle times, reduce inventory, and achieve more accurate inventory and better planning for future inventory.
• Inspections/Quality Assurance: Request third-party inspections for quality audits online to increase order accuracy and partner accountability, identify product defects early in the fulfillment cycle, lower safety stock levels, and gain the ability to acknowledge available-to-promise dates.
• Fulfillment & Shipping: Print accurate standard shipping documents such as manifests, pack lists and bills of lading, and enable trading partners to generate electronic ASNs and UCC-compliant shipping labels.
• Chargebacks: Automate claims for damaged products, late shipments, demurrage or virtually any non-compliance event by your trading partners.  

When combined with Manhattan Associates' Hub Management solution, Supplier Enablement provides global shipment tracking and. You can also maximize cross-dock and flow-through for direct-to-store delivery, reduce inventory, speed orders to market, and dramatically cut transportation, storage and labor costs.

Contact a Manhattan representative to find out more about how Supplier Enablement can help reduce costs by enhancing communication and collaboration between you and your suppliers.