• Supply Base Managem.
• SRM & Sourcing Suite
• Supplier Scorecard

Professional Supply Base Management /Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) supports the Purchasing department in optimally shaping its relationships to its suppliers and in increasing its own performance. A structured Supplier Relationship Management supported by IT pays off for enterprises of all size, as with the effective application of SRM, the procurement costs can be reduced, and thus the profitability can be increased without depending on sales growth and without having to forfeit the highest quality.

POOL4TOOL contains all the elements of modern Supply Base Management, from the definition of strategy for commodity groups, through supplier selection, supplier scorecard, and supplier development, to the integration of suppliers in strategically important processes such as action planning.

With an integrated SRM concept, you can optimally and electronically support your supply base management during the complete life cycle of your suppliers, designing your purchasing processes in ways that are noticeably more efficient.

POOL4TOOL is the leading SRM and sourcing suite with ERP integration  to optimize processes across departments and enterprises. The modular portfolio of POOL4TOOL comprises solutions for more than 40 processes in Sourcing, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Project Management, Quality, and Sales.

With POOL4TOOL, you can combine previously independent individual procedures in different areas of your enterprise, and with your suppliers, in one software application. This high degree of integration offers you ample advantages compared to the use of several stand-alone solutions: short processing times, transparent procedures, high efficiency in processes and quality, as well as reduction of process costs.

Sustainable process optimization through active involvement of the suppliers via POOL4TOOL is our and our customers‘ focus.

POOL4TOOL’s Supplier Scorecard (supplier performance rating) was developed in cooperation with leading enterprises of the manufacturing industry. With POOL4TOOL, you have at your disposal a well-engineered tool, tested in practice, for compiling and maintaining a cross-functional supply base management in the form of an SAP AddOn.

POOL4TOOL’s Supply Base Management (supplier performance rating) brings together hard facts (e.g. delivery reliability, delivery capacity), which have been identified in the framework of operational supplier performance, and soft facts (e.g. innovation, cooperativeness) from strategic supplier rating, thus allowing weighted consideration. The result of POOL4TOOL’s Supplier Scorecard is an objective and comprehensive profile of supplier performance. On the basis of the profile, concrete measures can be deduced to improve performance. The measures can be regulated in POOL4TOOL.