Global Vendor Automation

Imagine communicating and collaborating with your vendors without piles of paper, confusing emails and annoying phone tags?

Imagine getting the latest work-in-progress reports without staying up at night.

Imagine getting everyone on the same page without endless meetings.

Imagine getting accurate shipment data from your vendors without delays.

Imagine all of this without spending any money? Imaging not having to hire any additional IT staff?

No, it's not a dream.

Retailers, wholesalers and branded manufacturers are increasingly sourcing products directly from international vendors. Direct sourcing is a coordinated effort not just between different internal departments, but also with potentially hundreds if not thousands of vendors around the world, across countries, time-zones and languages.

Consider the enormous amount of information needed from your vendors to finalize a product specification, confirm an order and manage change, track status, ensure quality and handle shipment. It is easy to imaging how things can slip thru the cracks when most of the information are prepared and communicated manually by e-mails, spreadsheets, paper, faxes and phone calls. Each time a vendor makes a mistake in preparing information for you, has problem locating an email or spreadsheet or fails to inform you of potential problems may cost you hundreds or thousands of dollars.

CBX Vendor Portal is the solution.

CBX Vendor Portal is designed, built and run by Core Solutions for a single purpose: To enable your vendors to efficiently, effectively and electronically work with you from anywhere in the world. Offered as Software as a Service (SaaS), CBX Vendor Portal empowers your vendors with simple online tools that are easy to understand and easy to use.

CBX Vendor Portal's tools are not just easy to use; the workflow capability guides your vendors to completing each piece of information required by you, at the same time, minimizing data entry and related errors. Through CBX Vendor Portal, you can be certain that information is always reliably and consistently delivered to and from vendors. CBX Vendor Portal even helps your vendors keep track of different version of any communication and document.

CBX Vendor Portal complements your existing EDI capability. For example, CBX Vendor Portal can receive PO and PO amendments and enable your vendors to send you ASN and Invoices through your existing EDI interfaces.

Going beyond EDI, CBX Vendor Portal can integrate with your ERP or PLM/Sourcing systems through XML and Web Services for a broad spectrum of sourcing and supply chain processes:

• Product Development
• RFQ / Quotation Comparison
• Fabric, Yarn, Color, Trim and Fit Approval
• Pre-production/Proto Sample Approval
• Inventory Level Update
• Packing Instruction Delivery
• PO / PO Change Management
• Packing and ASN Generation
• Invoicing and Reconciliation
• Inspection Scheduling / Inspect Data Capture
Shipment Booking
• Insurance Application
Customs Declaration
• Finance Application

We take extra steps to make sure that your vendors can use CBX Vendor Portal from anywhere in the world. CBX Vendor Portal is delivered in multiple languages - English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and other languages. Furthermore, CBX Vendor Portal is operated in multiple resilient data centers strategically located around the world near your vendors to make sure that they are getting adequate response times. And, CBX Vendor Portal is backed by Core Solutions' 24 by 7 vendor support team.

For as little as a few hundred dollars a year, Core Solutions will handle every aspect of making sure you are in sync with each and every vendor. Find-out how simple and easy it can be.

The CBX suite - CBX PLM, CBX Sourcing, CBX Vendor Portal and CBX Connect - is the most powerful set of global sourcing software and services to help retailers, wholesalers and branded manufacturers streamline Product Development, Sourcing, Order Management, Production Management, Quality Management, Logistics and Finance.

CBX Vendor Portal modules include: