Smart Supplier Collaboration (SSC)
SSC is a solution designed to ensure seamless alignment between companies, suppliers, and logistics partners. By integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and advanced language models (LLM), SSC enables interaction through an intelligent conversational agent, improving communication and boosting efficiency in procurement and production processes.
Key Feautures
Collaborative planning with suppliers
- Improve collaboration → Integrate suppliers and manufacturing partners into planning and execution processes, ensuring a synchronized decision-making process.
- Optimize response times → Accelerate approvals, confirmations and corrective actions by preventing delays and misalignments.
- Increase visibility→ Monitor the supply chain in real time, from raw material sourcing to production and delivery.
- Automate workflows → Dynamically publish, update and track work plans.
- Reduces supply chain risks → Enables rapid adaptation to change, preventing bottlenecks and ensuring business continuity.
- Simplify logistics and documentation → Define shipments and digitally manage contracts, certifications, datasheets and other documents.
Integration with Shipping (Shipment Management)
- Creation and management of shipments with related documentation.
- Definition of the quantities to be shipped, with the possibility of creating a new shipment or updating an existing one.
- Detailed setting of the shipment with automatic generation of the ASN (Advanced Shipping Notice) at the time of confirmation.
- Full shipment monitoring, with access to essential documents such as the ASN and shipment summary.
Inspection of Materials
- Creation of inspection plans for subcontractors and raw material suppliers.
- Control based on predefined attributes (materials, acceptance thresholds, supplier performance).
- Collaborative workflow involving company, supplier/subcontractor and inspector.
- Real-time feedback with the ability to attach photos and documents to validate the release of the next shipment.
- Sustainability management → For items subject to environmental regulations, data relating to the EUDP (Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Programme) can be included.
Operational benefits
- Better synchronization between company and suppliers, reducing errors and inefficiencies.
- Reduced production delays, thanks to advanced visibility and process automation.
- Increased transparency and collaboration, with real-time data exchange between all parties involved.
- Optimization of logistics costs, thanks to the integration with the shipping and shipment management system.
- Intelligent quality management, with structured inspections and immediate feedback to avoid downstream problems.
SSC is an intelligent, collaborative platform designed to make supply chain management more efficient and proactive through advanced integration of Artificial Intelligence, automation and operational visibility.