Secure, Integrated Platform
- Highest level of security using the latest SSL (secure socket layer encryption) and role-based user security model
- Integration with other modules in the eBreviate eSourcing suite
- Ability to integrate with existing corporate systems, including ERP, MRP and CRM applications, through defined APIs and data feeds
- Secure partitioning of event data to support units in a decentralized organization
- Customized screens that incorporate customer branding and preference
Intuitive, Comprehensive Survey Builder
- Advanced event functionality, allowing collection of complex supplier data for each item, including cost detail breakdowns for each item, such as detail material, labor, or tooling used by the supplier in the manufacture of the part
- Flexible, customizable format for data collection supporting all question types from simple text to multiple choice and complex pricing matrices
- Ability to attach files to posted surveys, such as specification documents and CAD/CAM files, for supplier review
- Library functionality to store templates, sections, pricing tables, or A.T. Kearney Procurement & Analytics Solutions best-in-class RFPs for copy and reuse
- Collaborative development of RFPs and surveys among assigned buyers
- Multi-currency options, multi-language capability and custom time zone display
Streamlined Communications and Event Management
- Real-time environment captures responses with attachments immediately in a secure database with additional validation for accuracy upon final submission
- Multi-round dynamic negotiations with history of previous submissions
- Automated supplier communication based on predefined and user-defined events, as well as a message board to post RFP-specific questions and answers
- Tracking reports display RFP completion levels and other participation details
Automated Analysis and Evaluation
- Powerful analytic tools to monitor and measure results, including side-by-side comparison reports of responses, total cost and savings calculations, bid optimization, and data export capability
- Automatic or manual evaluation of responses at question level or using frameworks based on user-defined attributes and weighting
- Administrative level management and reporting on activity and results
