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A few highlights and recommendations from Aberdeen’s Supplier Enablement Benchmark Studies
Make it a collaborative process.
For the best results, centralize supplier enablement within one function, such as procurement or finance.
But make it a collaborative process among all key stakeholders, especially IT, to help evaluate and maintain the technology options.
Top three reasons for improving trading partner enablement
Reduce Operating Costs (73% of those surveyed)
Improve visibility into spending (59% of those surveyed)
Improve usage and value of supply chain automation investments (45% of those surveyed)
Half of the companies surveyed said, “many suppliers lack the budget, infrastructure, or resources to support and sustain electronic enablement initiatives.”
(Aberdeen Research, “The Supplier Enablement Benchmark Report”, March-2006)
Make incremental improvements designed to realize the full benefits of centralized applications and communication channels.
Vision Fulfillment
Partner enablement efforts often stall due to perceptions of cost and complexity
Typical challenges for the enterprise
Understanding capabilities of your supplier base
Managing multiple communications
Coordination with supplier resources
Typical challenges for suppliers
Lack of technical, information, resources, and infrastructure
Required to support multiple formats
Coordination with customer resources
Supplier vs. Customer Enablement
Companies usually focus first on Customer enablement to ensure consistency in their fulfillment processes and drive top-line growth.
Shifting the focus to Supplier enablement provides unique advantages.
Opportunity to drive bottom line cost savings
Define document standards: leverage is in your favor
Create a standardized collaborative enablement environment
Improve supplier relationships
Repeatable processes that can be managed via technology to reduce cost
On- Boarding ‘tactical’ Objectives to Increase Efficiencies
Reduction in On boarding Effort
8- 10 days to on board partners -too long
Reduction in On boarding Expertise
EDI Expertise may include mappers – high expertise
Increase in On boarding Enablement Numbers
Number of partners on- boarded per month- too low
Pareto Principle Applied to Supplier Activity
80% of your business is handled by mostly 20% of your biggest suppliers – mostly automated
The rest 20% of your business mostly handled by the rest of your 80% suppliers (smaller suppliers mostly manual) no driver to automate them
Pareto Principle Applied to Administrative Costs
-The long-tail suppliers account for 80% of administrative costs
SEEBURGER provides automation solutions for each level of your supplier base
and the tools to efficiently manage the supplier enablement process.
So we can actually divide the Suppliers into 3 different levels.
1 Level: The HUB types fully EDI capable
2 Level: Tier two and three suppliers which can provide business documents so that they can be enabled from a Hub & Spoke perspective.
3 Level: Small TP which are maybe will to use a WEB EDI solution but most likely want to continue sending paper and do not want to change the existing process.
SEEBURGER provides solutions for all types of suppliers.
Roll out Portal – Automated Processes
Partner Recruitment (Marketing)
Classification
Notifications (Campaigns)
Surveys
Partner Self Testing and Certification
Easy access to test data files, guidelines, schema, error reports
Data Compliance Testing
Communications Testing
Management
Community and Program Management Reports and Dashboards
Partner Profile Management
Site Management tools
Partner Support
Knowledge base on testing results
Specialized Products and Services available to Partners
Partner Recruitment Schedule - The SEEBURGER Roll Out Portal provides the tools to configure and manage individual campaigns.  Each campaign can be designed to meet the specific needs of the participants and the underlying communication protocol
Partner Self Testing and Certification
Easy access to test data files, guidelines, schema, error reports
Data Compliance Testing (i.e. EDI message)
Communications Testing (i.e. AS 2 )
Roll Out Management
SEEBURGER Roll-out management tools enable you to monitor and track the progress of your trading partners as they interact with the Self Service Portal
Community and Program Management Reports and Dashboards
Provide real-time visibility of the entire roll-out initiative
Partner Profile Management
Seamlessly incorporate updates and changes from trading partners into their communication profiles
Site Management tools
Enables the administrator to control the features and functions that are presented in the self-service user interface
Partner Support
The Self Service Portal allows you to customize the support for each campaign depending on the needs of the partner community.
Define specifications, sample data, and testing documents for each unique campaign
Centrally update information such as FAQs and Testing Instructions
Create specialized error codes and provide corrective recommendations to guide trading partners in solving their own problems
Analyze testing results and quickly identify and address the most frequently occurring issues