Design & Supply Chain Collaboration

Benefits

• Efficiently add and support unlimited partners via convenient user administration tools.
• Encourage partner participation with streamlined and automated business processes that they would otherwise need to support manually.
• Reduce data administration costs by enabling preferred suppliers to directly update select component information and documentation.

Details

• Workspace invitations: Quickly invite suppliers and partners to participate in design collaboration via email notification and simple online registration instructions. Tailor or terminate user access rights without cumbersome IT administration and security vulnerability associated with behind-the-firewall applications.
• Item and BOM subscription: Enable authorized users across organizational boundaries to subscribe to automatic notifications any time their item, BOM or related data is revised.
• Supplier self service: Grant preferred suppliers self-service access to update vendor specifications, documentation, lead times, and quotes.
• Supplier file visibility: Mark any file as private, hiding it from all suppliers.
• Easy exports: Allow suppliers and design partners the ability to export complete BOMs, including part information, specifications and drawings required to support their contractual commitments.
• View sourcing relationships: Grant suppliers access to your supply relationships enabling them to source components through your supply chain.
• Share BOM costing: Grant suppliers access to costing information as necessary.
• Where-used: Grant suppliers access to utilize where-used views to determine component use across assemblies.
• Optional real-time voice and text chat: Detect the presence of authorized workspace users and instantly initiate a collaborative voice conference or text session using Skype Software. For text chat, you can save the transcript as a part of the product record.