Supplier Portal Service
With the Supplier Portal Service, SEEBURGER offers a WebEDI portal to integrate your non-EDI enabled suppliers into your EDI infrastructure. Your suppliers can receive your orders, create the follow-up documents and send them back to you.
Companies still exchanging their documents paper-based with their suppliers, face many disadvantages: transaction costs, need for clarification with employees or suppliers, or time-intensive and error-prone document management.
Hence, there are many upsides to electronic data interchange. But what if your suppliers use neither an EDI system nor an ERP system, or what if only a few documents need to be exchanged? This is where the SEEBURGER Supplier Portal Service comes in: a WebEDI portal in the SEEBURGER Cloud, which can be built on your EDI infrastructure.
Description
Quick Access Video
Watch our Quick Access Video to get a brief overview of the SEEBURGER Supplier Portal Service.
By using the Supplier Portal Service, you can deliver the orders coming out of your ERP system in a formatted view to your suppliers (1). Your suppliers have to log in to the WebEDI portal in order to create the follow-up documents (2) and send them back to you via the SEEBURGER Cloud (3). The documents are converted into the agreed target format, so you can use the same message format with either classic EDI or WebEDI.
With our free standard app Business Tracking, you can see all sent and received documents. Your suppliers can see all documents in overview tables. The infrastructure of the SEEBURGER Cloud is managed and monitored by SEEBURGER teams.
In order to use the Supplier Portal Service, SEEBURGER will perform a one-time installation. Here you can choose between the following message types (depending on which message types you want to exchange with your suppliers): orders, order changes, order responses, delivery notes (optional labels with barcode), goods receipts, invoices, and credit notes.
After that, you can connect your suppliers on your own. You can connect them one by one, or use the CSV upload to connect a large number of suppliers at the same time. Your suppliers don’t need to perform an installation – they only need a computer with internet access.
Advantages
-
Save time and money
Leave behind error-prone and time-intensive manual document management. The electronic processing of your orders will both make the cooperation between your company and your suppliers more reliable, faster, thus more efficient and reduce your transaction and communication costs.
- Easy to use and transparent
Your suppliers only have to register for the SEEBURGER Cloud, there will be no installation work or costs. Comfortable order processing based on user-friendly overviews creates a high acceptance among your suppliers. You and your suppliers see for example the upcoming tasks for every order.
- Flexible
It doesn’t matter which industry you and your suppliers belong to – you can use the Supplier Portal Service for every industry. You choose only the processes you need, when the service gets configured, and define which information your suppliers have to provide within the follow-up documents.
- SEEBURGER as an experienced WebEDI provider
We look back on many years as an experienced WebEDI provider. We offer a continuous product expansion as well as a standard connection via EDI and WebEDI on one platform incl. ERP connection.
Product Details
-
Email notification for incoming orders
When new orders are available, your suppliers will receive an email notification from the SEEBURGER Cloud. Your suppliers can activate or deactivate this function.
-
Overview of all deadlines
The deadlines for orders are determined depending on the delivery date. The supplier sees how many documents are left to be edited.
-
Order overview
The supplier can see the process progress of every order by the coloured marking within the order overview:
- dark grey: has to be edited next
- light grey: has to be edited
- dark green: completed
- light green: partially completed
-
Flexible configuration of user interface
You can configure the user interface for the suppliers depending on your requirements. Choose between: „show or hide field“, „mandatory field“, „optional field“ or “not editable by supplier”. This way, you can get all necessary information from your supplier, and the supplier avoids extra work with information you don’t need.
-
PDF print of all documents
Your supplier can create all documents and overviews as a PDF and print them. The PDF shows all information you configured for the detail screens.
-
Creating follow-up documents using turn around process
The information you are sending with your orders, is automatically included in the follow-up documents (“turn around process”). This reduces the processing effort of your supplier. The reference numbers of process documents are provided as well, to simplify the allocation to your ERP system.
-
Short-term archive in the WebEDI portal
Completed order processes are stored in the WebEDI portal for 30 days and can be printed and downloaded by the supplier.
-
Packaging information
Your supplier can transmit the packaging information before the physical delivery. If the supplier provides his own number range, the SSCC (Serial Shipping Container Code) gets automatically generated.
-
Label print
In the delivery note, the supplier can print a label for the packaging, which can be attached to the packaging. At the delivery, the goods receipt is automatically posted after scanning the bar codes of the label. You can choose between various layout templates for the labels.
-
Graphic presentation of document relations
A graphic presentation helps the supplier to keep an overview of all documents of partial deliveries, collective delivery notes or invoices. It shows the relation of all documents belonging to one process.
Price
The price for the Supplier Portal Service includes the following components:
- Initial setup fee
for the required work within the scope of the initial project - Monthly fee according to usage
depending on the number of suppliers
Do you have any questions - please don't hesitate to contact me:
Holger Fiederling (Director Pre-Sales)
