GAH Alberts has redesigned its supplier portal. The aim was to create a stronger link with strategic planning management. Today, GAH Alberts can automatically inform suppliers about its own forecasts and convert order proposals from the MRP management system into orders that are coordinated with the suppliers via the portal.

The main task of supplier portals is to minimize the administrative effort for orders through digitalization and automated data exchange. Orders no longer have to be printed out and faxed and order confirmations no longer have to be re-entered into the ERP system. Instead, it is now common practice to transmit orders from the ERP systems to a portal and then coordinate them with suppliers via digital documents. The result is a standardized process that is transparent and program-supported and therefore automatically complies with all legal requirements – such as the automatic archiving of the generated documents. In addition, no further manual input is usually required, so that typing errors and the associated misunderstandings and incorrect deliveries can be avoided. Today, however, modern supplier portals have to meet significantly more requirements than simply being the interface for digital order processing.

From: José Garcia from GAH-Alberts Gust. Alberts GmbH & Co. KG

You can find the full article in technik + EINKAUF, issue 06/2020, on pages 32-33.