Teamcenter direct functions, such as engineering, quality materials sourcing and manufacturing, and externally with suppliers. Without early collaboration, sourcing strategies are limited to cost containment techniques such as con- solidating suppliers, combining volumes across plants and developing new Decrease costs by extending purchasing suppliers in emerging markets. Cost influence throughout the product lifecycle containment techniques are indeed essential, but the purchasing function must grow beyond its transactional Benefits Summary origins and proactively engage with key • Provides an understanding of cost The Teamcenter® software direct functional stakeholders throughout the drivers early in the product develop- materials sourcing solution empowers product lifecycle if true cost reduction ment cycle companies to efficiently manage the and accelerated time-to-market are to sourcing process with their supply • Shortens sourcing cycle time by facili- be achieved. chains. The Teamcenter platform tating efficient, secure information provides a single source of data and For many companies, the biggest road- exchange with respondents enables you to streamline sourcing block to early collaboration is finding a • Delivers streamlined, round-trip processes across the extended enter- way to automate and streamline pro- sourcing integrated with product prise. The result is lower product costs cesses, such as direct materials development processes such as NPI, and faster time-to-market. sourcing, which is intertwined with ECR and ECN other product development processes, The challenge such as new product introduction (NPI) • Provides cloud-ready environment Competitive pressures are motivating and change management. option for easy deployment with companies to deliver value-driven multi-tenancy capabilities to reduce With Teamcenter direct materials sourc- products at lower prices and an acceler- administrative overhead ing, you can extend the influence of ated pace. To address these pressures, purchasing within your organization by • Provides an intuitive supplier portal to companies recognize the need to closely linking its activities with product minimize training costs leverage the expertise, knowledge and developers and other functional groups. innovation of their supply chain. As a This opens up the door to more strate- result, a large portion of products today gic opportunities to cut costs. Shared are made with supplied parts. This processes can be streamlined and means that suppliers have a significant specifications can be harmonized, impact on the ability of an original enabling part standardization and equipment manufacturer (OEM) to re-use, and value analysis can be respond to reduced time-to-market applied to yield cost-saving-specifica- requirements and intensified cost tion improvements. reduction demands. Cost reduction leaders recognize the value of early collaboration, both internally with other business www.siemens.com/teamcenter TEAMCENTER Teamcenter direct materials sourcing Sourcing managers that use Teamcenter other user-defined criteria. Selected create events for bid requests that suppliers receive awards and are sent include part specifications, reference award nominations. All of the bid and data and instructions for specified award information is managed in respondents to view and download. Teamcenter in context with the product Respondents can receive and access structure. Tracking reports, supplier these bid requests generated from status and monitoring are also available Teamcenter using an intuitive and in Teamcenter to provide complete secure supplier web portal. Respondents process visibility. use the supplier portal to enter bid Direct materials sourcing is a cloud- information and submit their responses ready solution based on the Teamcenter to the OEM sponsor for bid analysis. product lifecycle management (PLM) Sourcing managers can conduct multi- framework. All of the communication round dynamic negotiations with between Teamcenter sponsors and their respondents to refine responses. offline respondents can be performed Response analysis is simplified through using Teamcenter and an easy-to-use A compelling solution the use of both standard reports that Teamcenter helps you move from HTML5 web-based supplier portal. provide savings estimates, and side-by- rudimentary sourcing methods, such as Additional supplier collaboration solu- side comparisons of questions that paper-intensive procedures and cum- tions that leverage this same framework facilitate evaluation at the question bersome data collection and analysis include design data exchange and level as well as assessment against techniques, by providing a rich platform supplier program management. to digitally manage your entire sourcing process. This enables you to engage with key stakeholders early on, such as purchasing, design, engineering and manufacturing, and throughout the product lifecycle. Teamcenter enables you to streamline your direct materials sourcing process with key capabilities, including: bid event creation, notifica- tion to suppliers, control processes for event management, inclusion of part and reference information, a supplier web portal for receiving bid requests and submitting bid proposals, auto- matic tracking and communication, detailed cost breakdowns, bid analysis and award nominations. With Teamcenter direct materials sourcing, your procurement professionals and sourcing teams are freed from manual administrative details, giving them more time to focus on strategic issues that foster effective decision making and cost savings. TEAMCENTER Key capabilities • Collaborative development of RFPs and surveys among assigned buyers Secure, intuitive platform • Affords a rich platform as an essential • Multi-currency options, multi-lan- component of Teamcenter to digitally guage capability and custom time manage your sourcing process zone display • Establishes the highest level of secure Streamlined communications and communications between OEM spon- event management sor and respondents • Real-time environment that immedi- • Provides an intuitive web portal that ately and securely captures responses enables respondents to receive • Multi-round negotiations while lever- requests and respond to them aging a history of previous • Leverages the supplier collaboration submissions foundation that also supports design • Automatically initiates respondent data exchange and supplier program communications in conjunction with management use cases predefined and user-defined events, • Populates the bill-of-materials (BOM) as well as message board postings with supplier pricing data that include RFP-specific questions and answers • Provides a cloud-ready deployment option with secure partitioning of • Tracking reports that display RFP com- event data to support units in decen- pletion levels and other participation tralized environments details Intuitive, comprehensive event Automated analysis and evaluation builder • Powerful analytic tools to monitor • Advanced event functionality that and measure results, including side- allows you to collect complex respon- by-side comparison reports of Siemens PLM Software dent data for each item down to the responses, multi-round analyses, sup- www.siemens.com/plm component level plier cost breakdown analyses, total cost and savings calculations, bid • Detailed cost breakdowns related to Americas +1 314 264 8499 optimizations and data export material, labor, or tooling used by the Europe +44 (0) 1276 413200 capabilities supplier in the manufacturing of the Asia-Pacific +852 2230 3308 part • Evaluation of responses at the ques- tion level, as well as frameworks • Scenario modeling for advanced based on user-defined attributes and © 2016 Siemens Product Lifecycle Management sourcing problems when coupled weighting Software Inc. Siemens and the Siemens logo are with an optimization engine registered trademarks of Siemens AG. D-Cubed, • Facilitates administrative level man- Femap, Fibersim, Geolus, GO PLM, I-deas, JT, • Flexible, customizable format for data agement and reporting on activity NX, Parasolid, Solid Edge, Syncrofit, Teamcenter collection that supports all question and results and Tecnomatix are trademarks or registered types, from simple text to multiple trademarks of Siemens Product Lifecycle choice to complex pricing matrices Management Software Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. 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