Supplier & Partner Portals

Designing and developing effective Supplier and Partner Portals often becomes a complex exercise due to complicated designations and categories that define an organization’s working relationship with its suppliers and operation models of their partnerships. Additionally, organizations establish metrics that define the success of the relationships and partnerships. All of these considerations span the operational organizations inside a company.

Effective Supplier and Partner Portals represent all aspects of the partner relationship, including their increasingly global nature. Our clients recognize that effective Partner Portals embed process, knowledge, forms of collaboration and have dashboards that are meaningful to the relationship. Effective Partner Portals combine these portal elements with a level of personalization that makes it most meaningful to the partner.

Effective Supplier and Partner Portals enable organizations to:

• View information from the supplier/buyer on operating procedures
• Retrieve information on demand for the supply (or vice versa)
• Process orders
• Share market intelligence
• Collaborate with sales, supply chain or procurement teams
• View information on the success metrics of the relationship
• Access tools and information on a 24/7 basis for both local and remote users (i.e., those accessing information via mobile or handheld devices)
• Obtain information on the financial relationship between the partners.

LDS designs Supplier and Partner Portals that represent the most complex relationships in a consistent user experience that makes the portals dramatically effective. By providing unique content within the context of the type of partner, LDS’ portal solutions eliminate redundancy and enhance communication, reduce infrastructure necessary to support the relationship, and support conformity to the process. Our Supplier andPartner Portals reduce the cost necessary to maintain and enhance relationships and capitalize on the relationship objectives with lower long-term investment.