Siemens PLM Software Teamcenter supplier collaboration Optimizing product design between OEMs and suppliers Benefits Summary information that is inaccurate and quickly • Increase productivity and In a global economy, what you don’t know becomes out-of-date. Without the use of shorten time-to-market by about your suppliers can put you at risk. product lifecycle management (PLM) capa- including your supply chain Regulatory and consumer scrutiny requires bilities to enable collaboration with internal early in the design process supply chain transparency. As your and external suppliers, this information is company creates more complex, quality likely to be dispersed over multiple systems • Reduce risk with traceability products, it is critical that you have a and out of synch with a product’s bill-of- of supplier information complete view of your product, including materials (BOM). managed in the context of information related to your supplied parts. your product BOM Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter soft- Unless you have reliable and efficient ware® offers a new supplier collaboration • Improve the accuracy of methods for collecting and managing framework, which can help your company offline supplier deliverables supplier data, your company is exposed to stay on top of critical requirements for by ensuring version risks, such as noncompliance to industry managing the supply chain. With the new alignment and control and regulatory directives, missed delivery supplier collaboration solution, all of the dates and market opportunities, and • Reduce rework costs with communication between Teamcenter spon- damage to your brand. closed-loop integrated sors and their offline suppliers can be processes including the Collecting and managing supplier informa- performed using Teamcenter and an offline supply chain tion can be an immense and labor-intensive HTML5 web-based browser. For example, in manual task, especially when you are trying the design data exchange use case, the • Increase visibility by enabling to reach the offline supplier base that only sponsor using Teamcenter who wants to analysis, design reviews and communicates via phone, email, or other share data with a supplier can create an decision making for the non-managed methods. Using rudimentary exchange package with content intended entire product collection methods can result in for the supplier. This exchange package can www.siemens.com/teamcenter TEAMCENTER Teamcenter supplier collaboration include product structure, visualization files, ad hoc information and other files. Suppliers will receive a notification with a hyperlink to a web page where they can enter their login credentials to access the exchange package and start to collaborate with the Teamcenter sponsor. The new supplier collaboration framework will initially support four use cases Design data exchange • Design data exchange that is integrated with Teamcenter processes • Facilitate authorized suppliers to access design data directly from Teamcenter Supplier program management • Initiate data sharing from task workflows The Teamcenter supplier collaboration solution offers an easy-to-use interface for • Share prerequisite task data supplier interaction that is cloud-ready and with suppliers provides an easy and robust mechanism for • Collect task deliverables from suppliers exchanging large files. Direct materials sourcing With Teamcenter supplier collaboration, • Provide end-to-end integrated sourcing you will be able to shorten the time that it takes to start sharing information with your • Enable authorized bidders to access offline suppliers. In turn, your suppliers will product data directly from Teamcenter realize low overhead and low-cost methods • Provide robust sourcing capabilities for collaborating with you in a compliant and efficient manner. Supplier substance declarations • Automate supplier material and Contact substance declaration processes Siemens PLM Software Americas +1 314 264 8499 • Aggregate material data from suppliers Europe +44 (0) 1276 413200 to the product structure Asia-Pacific +852 2230 3308 www.siemens.com/plm © 2014 Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. Siemens and the Siemens logo are registered trademarks of Siemens AG. D-Cubed, Femap, Fibersim, Geolus, GO PLM, I-deas, JT, NX, Parasolid, Solid Edge, Syncrofit, Teamcenter and Tecnomatix are trademarks or regis- tered trademarks of Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. All other logos, trademarks, registered trade- marks or service marks belong to their respective holders. 42772-Y4 10/14 B.