Supplier Enablement – Best Practices in Deploying the PeopleSoft Supplier Portal

Enabling Supplier Self-Service within your organization’s Procure-to-Pay business processes can add significant value. Learn how SpearMC’s customers have deployed the PeopleSoft Supplier Enablement features and how your organization can achieve the following benefits:

• Reduce supplier phone calls and email inquiries through systematic visibility
• Purchase order status / acknowledgements / advance shipping
• Invoice & payment status and projected dates
• Contract status
• RFP bid status Reduce manual data entry for internal staff by enabling Supplier Self-Service functions
• Supplier/Bidder Registration
• Supplier Data Change Requests § Address updates § Bank account information
• Supplier User Management
• Invoice upload and online entry
• RFP bidding
• Contract negotiations / redlining Enforce data security Policies and activity monitoring
• Financial sanctions & TIN validation during approval processing
• Full system data encryption
• Attachment virus scanning
• Approval workflow for all transactions
• Sensitive data masking and logging of data updates

Full integration for key functions delivered in PeopleSoft modules:

• Supplier master data
• eSupplier Connection
• Purchasing / Procurement Contracts
• Supplier Contract Management
• Accounts Payable
• eSettlements

Speaker: Randall Johnson, Vice President, SpearMC Consulting