ARC Supplier Portal & Analytics (ARC SPA) is a comprehensive, integrated portal-based supplier platform that lets you tackle transaction automation and end-to-end process improvements across your entire supplier community. Enabling seamless information exchange with your suppliers on key processes, SPA’s scope covers Procurement-to-Payment process, Vendor Creation, Term of Trade / Agreements Management, Promotions and Deal Management, Item Set-Up, Claim Management, Space Selling, Import Process Management and Vendor Scorecard and Performance Management.
SPA transforms communication and processes across your Supplier Value Chain and internal departments through improved visibility, end-to-end process automation, supplier collaboration and process optimization leading to significant business benefits to your retail organization.
SPA is a strategic vendor portal solution that enables trading partners to collaboratively participate in the following processes for effective business performance.
- Automating Multiple workflows and various repetitive transactional processes between Retailers and Suppliers.
- Increasing Visibility on most important Key Performance Indicators of Retail to effectively run Retail Business and Queries(such as Sales, Inventory and Days On Hand, Promotions, Vendor Scorecard and others)
SPA’s self-service, guided analytics capabilities offer a range of pre-built, retail-centric Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that allow your employees and suppliers to manage performance across all major retail functions including sales, inventory management, promotions, purchase orders and supplier performance.
The range of superior analytics and decision-support features embedded in SPA’s architecture allow you to share a ‘single version of the truth’ between your internal departments and suppliers. It enables you to control and manage access to information based on roles and responsibilities of all stake-holders in your retail organizationand your suppliers’ side as well assuring you of maximum safety to the information you exchange through SPA.
SPA’s capabilities for process improvements go far beyond the limited scope of supply-chain functions and span the entire range of critical business processes. It facilitates superior business process efficiency and best-practice standardization at every step in the procure-to-pay cycle helping you improve purchase order management, supplier relationships and customer service.
SPA lets you leverage the benefits of quick vendor and product listings,superior Master Data accuracy and agile handling of new product launches, assortment plans and price revisions. While facilitating superior stock controls, quick fill rates and reduced out-of-stock situations, SPA ensures that you achieve maximum supplier participation for your promotion cycles, sales and marketing efforts.
SPA’s advanced analytical capabilities equipped with ready-to-use, retail-specific Key Performance Indicators(KPIs) and pre-built dashboards are a critical differentiator that helps retail businesses like yours to move to a mature performance management framework.
Most retailers are invested in multiple portals that handle specific processes and limited functions. The end result being that you have to manage and monitor an excessive number of point-to-point portals adding to your Total Cost of Ownership.
With SPA, you achieve business process improvements across your supplier value chain and internal departments - on a single, integrated platform. This makes available critical information to suppliers and decision-makers in your retail business at the click of a mouse.
ARC SPA offers you a technology-based solution that brings together inter-departmental and supply-chain elements to work synergistically for common organizational goals.
SPA helps you by automating repetitive processes and offering enhanced visibility across every level of your supply chain. It provides all stake-holders in your retail business with access to up-to-the-minute information on stocks, sales, promotions and offers.
SPA facilitates superior collaboration with your suppliers on an easy-to-use portal interface, helping both sides to gain efficiencies while its unique and powerful analytical capabilities help you map, monitor and manage your supply chain functioning for optimized business benefit.
ARC Supplier Portal & Analysis (SPA) presents suppliers with a unique, single-window platform to effectively manage their retailer interactions at every stage of the procure-to-pay lifecycle. It offers them a channel for effective, clear communication and high-level collaboration with retailers on a range of other business-critical functions including stock management, sales, new product launches and promotions.
SPA’s analytics capabilities and collaborative potential enable suppliers to achieve higher category-wisesales, successful product launches and enhanced stock management. Its intuitive and easy-to-use interface serves as a powerful ‘self-help’ tool for suppliers,helping them optimize costs, compare performance to plan and compete better.
