IPW Supplier Management – Manage Your Supplier Services
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Supplier Management? Experience a Unified, Streamlined Workflow

IPW Supplier Management – the name says it all. This is the forms package that manages all your company’s suppliers, supplier evaluations, contracts, and certificates.

IPW Supplier Management is the core around which all your supplier management revolves.

4 key components – Suppliers, Evaluations, Contracts/Agreements, and Certificates – complement one another in this flexible, form-based solution. Together, they optimize the myriads of interactions within your company’s supplier services.

You can create supplier records and define their relationships to evaluations, contracts, and certificates—while keeping a clear view of key dates, status management, and follow-up on registrations. All registrations are traceable, and more notably, it features automated notifications for upcoming evaluations and expiring contracts.

The result is a smooth workflow that eases the process of evaluating and documenting contracts and certificates. One that provides a comprehensive overview of agreements and compliance status—ultimately leading to significantly improved supplier relationships.

Key Features:

IPW Supplier ManagemFAQ – A few things worth knowingent is an add-on module consisting of 4 forms and associated subtables: Suppliers, Evaluations, Contracts/Agreements, and Certificates.
Supplier-level view showing latest evaluation, evaluation result, and upcoming evaluation date.
Responsibility assignment with automatic notifications for the next evaluation.
Predefined fields under ‘Evaluation’ – e.g. ‘No improvement needed’.
Notifications for expiring contracts and certificates.
Various mandatory fields under ‘Contracts’ allow the system to automatically set reminders, change status, etc.
Certificates can be assigned a start date and attached to the supplier.
IPW Supplier Management is easily customized and integrated, allowing tab relationships to connect with the company’s other registration processes, such as audits and deviations.

Agenda-Setting Overview

Get a comprehensive overview of supplier performance, agreements, contracts, and certificates—without getting lost in form acrobatics.

Transparency in Supplier Data

Discover how automated updates and reminders for upcoming evaluations, expiring supplier contracts, and other important deadlines ease the administrative workload in your supplier management process.

Confidence to Hold Suppliers Accountable

IPW Supplier Management isn’t just abstract numbers and percentages about supplier performance—it’s the detail-driven insight you need to definitively demonstrate what progress has (or hasn’t) been made.

FAQ – A few things worth knowing

Can IPW Supplier Management be built into the supplier table we already use?

Yes. IPW Supplier Management can be integrated into your existing IPW supplier table, allowing it to serve as the central hub for your supplier-related processes. If you currently use the “Companies” table, some customization is needed to include the necessary fields.

New IPW customers are provided with a standard supplier table in the IPW system. For optimal integration of supplier management, deviations, and audits, we recommend combining IPW Registrations with IPW Supplier Management.

Who will help us get IPW Supplier Management up and running?

Once the module is installed, an IPW Solution Specialist will spend one business day on minor customizations to forms and setup of user groups, profiles, and documents.

Where can I learn more about IPW Supplier Management?

You’ll find an online tutorial and an OBS recording with simple explanations and how-to steps on IPW Support.