Supply Base Manager (SBM)

Late vendor deliveries can create havoc with a company’s ability to meet their customer service level goals. This often leads to the common practice of carrying additional inventory to offset poor vendor performance. Visibility to changing requirements and consistent, ongoing evaluation of a vendor’s delivery performance can increase assurance of supply and reduced overall inventory expenses.

Supply Base Manager (SBM) is a browser-based application dedicated to monitoring vendor performance. It provides a summary or detailed view of a vendor’s delivery performance. Individual item lead time is monitored and statistically analyzed. Supply assurance is increased by automatically incorporating ‘safety time’ into the lead times utilized for replenishment planning.

Benefits

• Increase Supply Assurance – automatically keep lead times up-to-date
• Information is Power – leverage supplier performance data during your next negotiation
• Reduce Overall Inventory Expenses – order only what you need based on accurate lead times
• Improved product availability - safety times can be incorporated into product lead-times to offset late deliveries
• Improved buyer productivity - vendor delivery performance information is readily available

Advantages

• Graphical display of actual receipts eases the analysis of delivery performance
• Improve planning with the automatic adjustment and incorporation of ‘safety time’ for replenishment planning
• The ‘devil is in the details’—actual delivery receipt detail or Performance History Detail available for viewing
• Determine where the problem lies—delivery lead-time variation is tracked and monitored at the purchase order/item-level
• Provide feedback to your vendors—performance detail can be exported
• Make sure you order from your most efficient source—set ordering level priorities in the Vendor Level Management screen

Supply Base Analyzer (SBA) is a customizable OLAP® cube application embedded in SBM to provide information about your levels of supply, and for providing that information to your vendors. It is comprised of three configurable reports:

• DSI Report--centered around tracking your Days Supply of Inventory (DSI). Many companies like to use this instead of tracking dollars, as it gives them a good idea of their security and/or oversupply status.
• Open PO Report—shows all open PO's you have, so that you can get a good look of how your inventory position is going to be over the next few months time. This can be considered a high-level overview report
• Vendor Forecast Report—allows you to view what planned buys Requirements Planner has in its schedule. This can be useful to provide your vendor with a plan of your projected purchases, so they can schedule their capacity accordingly.