By initiating real partnerships with your suppliers, you integrate a business expert within your value chain who directly participates to the innovation and non-price competitiveness of your organisation.  This way, purchases now have full responsibility of the supplier capital and ensure to:

• Manage risks ans relation
• Reduce payment deadlines
  
• Optimise the portfolio of listed suppliers
• Search for innovation externally

KIMOCE is your partner of choice to improve your supplier relationships in the long run:

• Develop plans of progress: set quantitative and qualitative objectives for each supplier and plan these indicators’ monitoring
• Supplier assessment: assess suppliers according to criteria and view the average of the scores.
• Manage your meeting with suppliers successfully: edit a meeting chart before every monitoring meeting to benefit from a detailed view of supplier details.
• Manage your suppliers by category: classify your suppliers according to their business potential to perform a better analysis of your supplier portfolio.
• Steer your supplier agreements: automate the monitoring of all the aspects of supplier agreements such as price, payment, and duration conditions.
• Focus on innovation: launch invitations to tender to challenge your supplier on price but also on innovation or CSR.
• Monitor invoices: your dashboard shows the invoices approved for payment as well as disputed invoices to offer a smoother invoice validation process.
• Raise awareness for payment deadlines: generate the list of the due invoices to raise awareness on compliance with the payment deadlines.

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