Supplier collaboration

Automate, manage, and control

Facing intense cost and competitive pressures, your organization must find ways to work with suppliers more efficiently and effectively. Adobe solutions can help you reduce the time, complexity, and cost of supplier collaboration and integration. This enables you to optimize the request for information, proposal, or quote (RFx) process as well as efficiently manage contract creation, execution, and analysis. With Adobe solutions, you can:

Remove barriers to communicating with your supply chain

Improve communication by effortlessly creating rich information packages for projects, including requests for quotes, proposals, or contracts. Easily leverage rich data already available in your ERP, PDM, and other business systems.

Get faster turnaround

Enable suppliers to review and interact with your data using free Adobe® Reader® software, already installed on most computers. They can save files locally and then digitally sign and submit them. In the meantime, you can monitor the status of files and track supplier responses.

Protect and control sensitive information anywhere it gets distributed

Implement digital rights management (DRM) so you can maintain information security and version control of sensitive documents, even after distribution. Use Adobe solutions to dynamically control who can open, edit, print, copy, or forward your PDF documents. These controls remain with the document wherever it goes — online, offline, and even outside the firewall. Learn more about Adobe solutions for digital rights management.

Solution benefits

Leverage existing information assets, including 3D, more effectively by converting to PDF for easy sharing.
Expand reach to suppliers anywhere with free Adobe Reader software.
Reduce costs through better collaboration with your suppliers.
Transform error-prone paper-centric processes into an integrated, efficient digital process.
Improve supply chain efficiencies through automated routing of documents and review processes based on predefined business rules.
Enhance collaboration by delivering more accurate and complete requirements to suppliers and by managing revision control outside the firewall.
Minimize the loss of sensitive information by controlling distribution with digital rights management.