GRAMONT Vendor Connect
Seamless Collaboration on structured PLM and Master Data with Business Partners
With GRAMONT’s Vendor Connect the vision of a seamless end-to-end data flow from vendor to customer becomes a reality
There is a growing need to efficiently manage the increasing number of externally sourced Finished Products and Raw Materials with ever shorter lifecycles. In addition, regulatory compliance and documentation requirements are becoming more and more stringent. This is especially true in the Process Industry like FMCG, Lifescience, Chemicals or Pharma.
Vendor Connect - an extension of SAP Enterprise Product Development
Vendor Connect manages all requirements for a streamlined and efficient collaboration with vendors on PLM and Master Data like specifications, recipes, labels & artwork, documents and materials. It is directly integrated and leverages the functionality of SAP Intelligent Product Design (IPD). It will be replaced by SAP functionality (expected in 2021).
Target user groups are R&D, Purchasing, Master Data Management, QM, Compliance & Legal, Product Management and related areas.
Gramont Vendor Connect supports in the management of the Vendor specification portfolio and document requirements in an efficient way to expose structured data including configuration data, rules, value list without redundancy. The Structured data exchange for specification objects and documents as well as for Material Master / Material Master Change Request in the cloud is at the core of the solution. Business users have the opportunity for a flexible layout creation – displaying only the relevant information per product category, user group or lifecycle stage.
All objects in Vendor Connect are integrated into the specification, document and/or material lifecycle and status management as well as into the standard SAP business partner functions e.g. for management of Vendor Sites.
Notification and workflow management for the internal team as well as for external partners, validity and expiration management and campaign management for managing collaboration with multiple vendors at once are further features.
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