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