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Supplier Management
Waypoint Global, the leader in Supply Chain Quality offers Powerway On Demand Supplier Management a Software as a Service solution to quickly deploy Stage/Gate processes and begin driving data back into your organization.
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Supplier Quality
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Gives you the ability to manage a part through all the stages of your process and find and review critical status and evidence quickly. You also get the early visibility to risk so you can take action to make sure your suppliers deliver parts that meet your requirements on time.
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Program Managers
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You need the ability to find out if your suppliers are going to be ready in time to support your critical program milestones. If there is a problem, you need to determine where it is and who needs to fix it.
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Executives
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You need the ability to find out if there are problems causing risk to your launch date, and if so what those problems are and who needs to fix it.
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Waypoint Global's On Demand method of deployment and pricing allow you to start small and scale quickly, lowering initial costs and keeping continual investment in line with value. Your investment in Powerway On Demand SUpplier Management will insure that your entire supplier community will be implementing your process effectively, faster and cheaper than you thought possible.
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Supplier Management is a subscription service for companies with a well defined business process for managing suppliers. Leveraging the Powerway On Demand platform to configure your unique business process rules,
PoD-SM provides a completely customized solution for organizations with well-established Stage/Gate methods in need of a global tool for their employees and suppliers.
In contrast to the pre-packaged standards like APQP On Demand which provide “off-the-shelf” standards-based configurations, PoD-SM allows you to define every aspect of the Stage/Gate methodology to make it completely unique to your needs.
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Gates
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Program driven gate timing
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Projects
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Part level, project teams
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Tasks
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Requirements can include document evidence and answers to questions, customer and supplier opinions, approval workflow (optional)
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Document Types
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Required document types, document measure entry (optional)
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Roles
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Task responsibility (producer or consumer) assignment based on roles, customer and supplier roles
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Schedule/Promise/Actual Dates
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Supplier entered promise dates, comparison to schedule and actual dates
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User Home Page
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To Do List (Overdue, 7 Days, 30 Days), Alerts (Selectable), Favorites, User Preferences
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Issues
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Problem summary, description and solution, submission/rejection workflow, task based assignments
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Documents
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Evidence stored and secured (source document and rendered PDF), attachments on tasks and issues, document inbox per part
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Parts
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Part information, revisions, classifications, families
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Suppliers
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Invitations, supplier codes to supplier location matching
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Programs
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Program milestones and timing
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Reports
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Real time, embedded reports, summary and detail level, user filter and sorting selections, export to Excel
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Search
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Simple and advanced search of projects utilizing full text search capabilities
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Audit History
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A complete log of all changes made to tasks and projects during the entire lifecycle
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Security
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Access controlled at organizational and project level, role based responsibilities
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| Delivery Method |
Software as a Service (SaaS) |
| Service Availability |
99.98% Uptime (except scheduled maintenance window) |
| Client Hardware Requirements |
Any machine capable of running a required browser |
| Client Software Requirements |
Internet Explorer 6.0 or greater, Adobe Acrobat Viewer |
| Network Bandwidth Requirements |
Dial-up or better (faster connections perform better) |
The Powerway On Demand (PoD) series of services help you use PoD products more effectively, and can help provide expertise for you organization when you need help filling in the gaps.
For more information about how we can solve your specific business problem choose from the service offerings below:
- Application Consulting - If one of our packaged products doesn't fit you needs, our Application Consultants can help put together a solution that will.
- Implementation - Let our specialists get you up and running with your solution faster.
- Curriculum Development - Successful execution of your business processes begins with a well trained user base. We have a wide variety of training solutions to help you.
- Help Desk - The majority of your users are no longer inside your organization. Let us help you make sure they get the help they need, no matter where they are.
- Integration - PoD products are designed to work with your existing data. Let our integration specialists connect your systems to ours.
- Community Facilitation - Belonging to, or building a product community brings a new set of information and communication challenges. Let our expert’s help you make sure your community is well connected.
Powerway On Demand Course List
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Powerway's online Supplier Administrator Class teaches you how to set up your organization, users and team assignments.
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Click here to see the Powerway Training calendar

Contact Waypoint Global for Powerway On Demand pricing information
Why?
The Waypoint Global team will work with you to determine the best way to meet your needs. Since Powerway On Demand Supplier Management is quite flexible, it often requires some discussion about volume, sources of data, supplier invitation process, and other topics to determine the best approach to your project.
Supplier Management is a subscription service for companies with a well defined business process for managing suppliers. Leveraging the Powerway On Demand platform to configure your unique business process rules,
PoD-SM provides a completely customized solution for organizations with well-established Stage/Gate methods in need of a global tool for their employees and suppliers.
In contrast to the pre-packaged standards like APQP On Demand which provide “off-the-shelf” standards-based configurations, PoD-SM allows you to define every aspect of the Stage/Gate methodology to make it completely unique to your needs.
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Powerway On Demand
Supplier Management
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