Teamcenter product, including information related supplier to your supplied parts. Unless you have reliable and efficient methods for collecting and managing supplier data, your company is exposed to risks, such collaboration as noncompliance to industry and regulatory directives, missed delivery dates and market opportunities, and damage to your brand. Collecting and managing supplier information can be an immense and Optimizing product design between labor-intensive manual task, especially when you are trying to reach the offline OEMs and suppliers supplier base that only communicates via phone, email, or other non-man- aged methods. Using rudimentary collection methods can result in infor- Benefits Summary mation that is inaccurate and quickly • Increase productivity and shorten In a global economy, what you don’t becomes out-of-date. Without the use time-to-market by including your know about your suppliers can put you of product lifecycle management (PLM) supply chain early in the design at risk. Regulatory and consumer scru- capabilities to enable collaboration with process tiny requires supply chain transparency. internal and external suppliers, this As your company creates more com- • Reduce risk with traceability of information is likely to be dispersed plex, quality products, it is critical that supplier information managed in over multiple systems and out of synch you have a complete view of your the context of your product BOM with a product’s bill-of-materials (BOM). • Improve the accuracy of offline supplier deliverables by ensuring version alignment and control • Reduce rework costs with closed-loop integrated processes including the offline supply chain • Increase visibility by enabling analysis, design reviews and decision making for the entire product www.siemens.com/teamcenter TEAMCENTER Teamcenter supplier collaboration Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter software® offers a new supplier collabo- ration framework, which can help your company stay on top of critical require- ments for managing the supply chain. With the new supplier collaboration solution, all of the communication between Teamcenter sponsors and their offline suppliers can be performed using Teamcenter and an HTML5 web-based browser. For example, in the design data exchange use case, the sponsor using Teamcenter who wants to share data with a supplier can create an exchange package with content intended for the supplier. This exchange package can include product structure, Supplier substance declarations visualization files, ad hoc information • Automate supplier material and and other files. Suppliers will receive a substance declaration processes notification with a hyperlink to a web page where they can enter their login • Aggregate material data from suppli- credentials to access the exchange ers to the product structure package and start to collaborate with The Teamcenter supplier collaboration the Teamcenter sponsor. Siemens PLM Software solution offers an easy-to-use interface www.siemens.com/plm The new supplier collaboration frame- for supplier interaction that is cloud- work will initially support four use cases: ready and provides an easy and robust Americas +1 314 264 8499 mechanism for exchanging large files. Europe +44 (0) 1276 413200 Design data exchange With Teamcenter supplier collaboration, Asia-Pacific +852 2230 3308 • Design data exchange that is inte- you will be able to shorten the time that grated with Teamcenter processes it takes to start sharing information • Facilitate authorized suppliers to with your offline suppliers. In turn, your access design data directly from suppliers will realize low overhead and © 2017 Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Teamcenter low-cost methods for collaborating with Software Inc. Siemens, the Siemens logo and you in a compliant and efficient SIMATIC IT are registered trademarks of Siemens Supplier program management manner. AG. Camstar, D-Cubed, Femap, Fibersim, • Initiate data sharing from task Geolus, GO PLM, I-deas, JT, NX, Omneo, workflows Parasolid, Simcenter, Solid Edge, Syncrofit, Teamcenter and Tecnomatix are trademarks or • Share prerequisite task data registered trademarks of Siemens Product with suppliers Lifecycle Management Software Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other • Collect task deliverables from countries. All other trademarks, registered suppliers trademarks or service marks belong to their respective holders. Direct materials sourcing 42772-A5 5/17 A • Provide end-to-end integrated sourcing • Enable authorized bidders to access product data directly from Teamcenter • Provide robust sourcing capabilities 844-GEO-SUPT [email protected] geoplm.com.