Projects

Module Overview

Projects provides flexible ad-hoc supplier collaboration spaces with task tracking and file sharing.

Not every supplier collaboration process fits neatly into a standard module. Sometimes teams need a shared space to coordinate work with a supplier around a project, initiative, improvement activity, launch task, engineering topic, commercial discussion, document request, or one-off supplier engagement.

The Projects module gives those activities a more structured home inside Supplios, so the work does not disappear into email threads, local files, and informal follow-ups.

Target Users and Use Cases

Projects is for supplier-related work that needs structure, ownership, and visibility, but does not require a dedicated module or highly customized workflow.

Primary users include:

• Supplier development and project teams.
• Procurement, supplier quality, engineering, and operations teams coordinating supplier work.
• Suppliers participating in project tasks, uploads, messages, and follow-up.

Common use cases include supplier improvement projects, engineering or technical collaboration, launch support, supplier development initiatives, operational follow-up, and ad-hoc supplier requests that still need owners, due dates, files, and messages.

Features and Capabilities

Project capabilities are flexible and depend on configuration.

Capabilities can include:

• Supplier collaboration spaces tied to a supplier, topic, program, item, or business process.
• Task tracking for internal users and suppliers.
• File sharing and document collection.
• Built-in supplier messaging.
• Due dates, reminders, and notifications.
• Status tracking and basic reporting.
• Internal and supplier-facing views.
• Configurable fields, task structures, and project types when needed.
• Connection to other Supplios workflows when a project needs to reference sourcing, claims, audits, onboarding, performance, compliance, or other supplier records.

Projects are useful when a team needs structure and visibility, but not necessarily a full custom workflow.

Benefits and ROI

Projects ROI usually comes from giving ad-hoc supplier collaboration a clear place to live.

Typical benefit categories include:

• Less supplier work managed through unstructured email threads.
• Clearer ownership of project tasks across internal teams and suppliers.
• Better visibility into open tasks, files, decisions, and next steps.
• Easier supplier follow-up through reminders and task assignments.
• Better continuity when team members change or projects span multiple departments.
• More complete records of supplier collaboration activity.
• Less need to create a fully custom workflow for every supplier-facing process.

Projects gives teams a practical middle ground: more structured than email, but lighter than a fully custom module.

How Implementation Works

• Customer inputs: Example supplier projects, improvement plans, task lists, owners, milestones, due-date rules, supplier instructions, file requirements, and reporting expectations.
• Supplios setup: Configure project templates, task structures, permissions, file areas, messaging, reporting views, and representative examples.
• Typical timeline: Standard templates are often 1-3 weeks; custom reporting, structured templates, or integrations may take 4-6+ weeks.

Pricing Structure

Projects is listed as an optional module in the pricing guide.

The pricing structure is:

• Flat fee.
• Tiers based on features.
• One-time fees are required because the module is customized to the customer's process.

Final pricing depends on project types, required fields, workflow complexity, reporting needs, supplier access requirements, and any integrations.