Effective supplier management is fundamental to supporting your business operations. Suppliers struggle to interact with your business without adequate oversight and communication. Your office teams might spend hours a day fielding phone calls or emails from suppliers with questions about every aspect of the process. Requesting payments or receiving invoices can be a process fraught with errors and slowdowns. With a supplier self-service portal, you can address these problems directly.

The Tungsten Marketplace supports many solutions that integrate with broader workflow automation platforms such as Tungsten TotalAgility and AP Essentials. The Supplier Self-Service Portal by ACMO represents a highly robust solution for everything, from onboarding to management and communication. Consider some common pain points in this space and see how this solution can address them.

The Hurdles in Vendor Management Facing Companies Today

Managing vendors smoothly is vital but not without drawbacks. Numerous challenges lie in fielding an efficient and reliable workflow. Some of the issues most commonly encountered by businesses nowadays include:

• Various vendors use different systems or prefer distinct platforms, leading to confusion and poor communication.
• Lengthy and burdensome onboarding procedures that initiate relationships poorly.
• Difficulty tracking orders.
• Lost or delayed invoices.
• Struggles with meeting compliance requirements and maintaining digital security.

The Supplier Self-Service Portal aims to address each of these issues.

What Does the Supplier Self-Service Portal Do?

This solution aims to unify supplier communications under one roof. For companies operating with an international footprint or working with global vendors, this vendor portal represents an immediate solution to facilitate better communication with those partners. Built to integrate thoroughly with your existing ERP or CRM system, you can give suppliers the power to manage their accounts with you anytime. Invoice submission becomes more straightforward, and you can even monitor your spending with analytics that generate real-time reports.

Notable Features to Know

Designed to be simpler for businesses and their vendors, the Supplier Self-Service Portal has several core features that give it excellent value. Clear, detailed and easy-to-read dashboards put everything you and your vendors need at your fingertips. Some of the notable features include:

• A centralized platform for managing everything from purchase orders and invoices to payments. See, at a glance, how many outstanding invoices you have in categories from pending to disputed. Take action without exiting the system.
• Rapid vendor onboarding. Lighten the administrative load on your team by allowing suppliers to take a more active role in supplying information. Automation helps gather and ingest data and documents to begin your new business relationships sooner.
• Highly detailed tracking for orders and invoices. Ensure you receive orders on time and do the same for paying your vendors promptly to control cash flow and achieve early payment discounts.
• Integrated communication between you and your vendors, saving all your conversations in one place.
• A highly secure environment to keep confidential data private.

With these features and their benefits, you can leave troublesome vendor management problems in the past.

Leverage the Marketplace for Your Organization Today

With better tools for vendor management, you can forge stronger supplier relationships and enhance the reputation of your business. Internally, you can reduce errors, increase the value of the contributions made by skilled employees, and enjoy more streamlined accounting processes. It’s all possible with the integration between TotalAgility and this Marketplace solution.

You can quickly integrate high-value functionality into your business through the Supplier Self-Service Portal. Such options drastically reduce the timeline towards achieving a measurable ROI on your automation investment. These and other Marketplace solutions let you enhance and extend the impact of Tungsten technology in your organization. Learn more about this solution now, or discover additional options for support in the Marketplace today.