Summary

Platform Overview

Supplios is a supplier collaboration platform built for manufacturing companies to manage and work with suppliers across the supplier lifecycle.

The platform starts with a Core Platform and SRM foundation, then adds function-specific modules as needed. This modular design is intended to support incremental adoption: a company can start with a focused use case, prove value with a smaller implementation, and then add additional functionality, modules, users, and customizations over time.

At a high level, Supplios helps teams bring supplier work out of scattered email threads, spreadsheets, shared drives, and disconnected systems, and into one structured portal where internal users and suppliers can work from the same process, the same data, and the same set of tasks.

Supplios is especially useful when supplier work involves:

• Multiple internal departments.
• Suppliers that need to submit data, documents, forms, or approvals.
• Repeating workflows that need reminders, ownership, and status visibility.
• Supplier data that needs to stay connected across sourcing, quality, onboarding, compliance, performance, and operations.
• External systems such as ERP, PLM, QMS, WMS, supplier risk tools, and reporting systems.

Target Users and Use Cases

Supplios is designed for the people who work with suppliers every day, as well as the internal stakeholders who participate in supplier processes occasionally.

Typical internal users include:

• Buyers, sourcing analysts, category managers, and GSMs.
• SQE, SQM, supplier quality, supplier development, and quality assurance teams.
• Supply chain, logistics, planning, and operations teams.
• Engineering, R&D, tooling, finance, accounting, legal, compliance, and management stakeholders.
• Admin and IT users who manage access, configuration, integrations, SSO, and account-level settings.

Suppliers use Supplios to respond to the work assigned to them, without creating a separate cost burden for the customer or supplier. There are no costs associated with supplier users, no per-supplier-user fees, and no limit to the number of suppliers or supplier users that can be invited to the portal.

Common platform-wide use cases include:

• Maintaining supplier master data and contact information.
• Running RFQ/RFP/RFI sourcing events, intake requests, and award workflows.
• Managing supplier quality workflows such as Claims, 8D/SCAR/NCR, PPAP, APQP, NPI, audits, and corrective actions.
• Tracking supplier certifications, contracts, policies, acknowledgements, and other compliance documents.
• Onboarding new suppliers, managing supplier status changes, and refreshing supplier data over time.
• Generating supplier scorecards, tracking KPIs, and triggering improvement actions.
• Coordinating order confirmations, delivery date updates, inspection data, ASN, and other order or shipment-related processes.
• Building custom workflows for supplier-related processes that do not fit a standard module.

Features and Capabilities

Supplios combines portal, workflow, supplier data, and collaboration capabilities in one platform.

Core platform capabilities include:

• A modern supplier portal for both internal teams and suppliers.
• Topic-based messaging integrated with email.
• Task tracking on a per-person and per-company basis.
• Built-in reminders and notifications.
• Embedded instructions and guides where needed.
• Simple registration and login for suppliers.
• In-app support widget, help content, and supplier support options.
• US or EU cloud hosting, managed email deliverability, and fully managed infrastructure.
• ISO27001:2022 certified and audited Information Security Management System.
• SOC2 Type 2 certification and GDPR compliance.
• SSO integrations, user management integrations, and optional API access.

The standard module set includes:

• Core Platform: The base portal and application layer used by every account.
• SRM: Supplier data management, contact management, supplier tagging, supplier locations, and master data integrations.
• Sourcing: Sourcing Intake, Sourcing Events, and Sourcing Awards for source-to-contract workflows.
• Items: Parts and products procured from suppliers.
• Supplier Claims: Supplier defects, non-conformances, delivery issues, 8D/SCAR/NCR, CAPA, and chargeback tracking.
• PPAP: Production Part Approval Process workflows, supplier submissions, approvals, documentation, and PSW generation.
• NPI / APQP: APQP, PPAP, phase-gate, and custom NPI workflows.
• Supplier Performance: Scorecards, KPIs, dashboards, scorecard PDFs, and supplier improvement triggers.
• Supplier Onboarding: New supplier onboarding, supplier status changes, upboarding, and re-onboarding.
• Order Management: Purchase order confirmations, delivery date updates, inspection data, ASN, and related order or shipment tracking.
• Audits: On-site and remote audits, self-assessments, findings, corrective actions, and follow-up.
• Compliance & Contracts: Supplier certifications, contracts, policies, acknowledgements, requirement rules, and compliance status.
• Projects: Flexible ad-hoc supplier collaboration spaces with task tracking and file sharing.
• Custom Workflows: Custom collaboration workflows for supplier-related processes.
• Custom Modules: Fully custom modules with one or more custom workflows or custom objects.

Pricing Structure

Supplios pricing is modular. The overall pricing structure is based on:

• The number of internal users at the customer company.
• The modules that are enabled.
• Optional add-ons.
• Any required implementation, customization, or integration work.

Most modules include a mix of feature-based and usage-based pricing, with both recurring fees and one-time fees depending on the module and scope.

User License Model

Module Pricing Model

The module pricing model varies by module:

• Core Portal and SRM are foundational modules.
• Optional modules are priced based on feature tier, process package, frequency, volume, number of suppliers, number of documents, number of orders, or other module-specific usage drivers.
• Some modules do not require implementation to start.
• Workflow-heavy modules usually include one-time implementation fees because the workflow is customized to the customer's process.

Benefits and ROI

Supplios ROI typically comes from making supplier work more structured, visible, and easier to manage at scale. Exact ROI will depend on the process, volume, team structure, and current way of working, but the most common benefit categories are consistent across modules.

Typical ROI categories include:

• Time savings: Less manual follow-up, less data entry, fewer status meetings, fewer spreadsheet updates, and less time searching across email and shared drives.
• Process consistency: Clearer task ownership, standard workflows, consistent supplier instructions, and fewer one-off process variations.
• Supplier responsiveness: Suppliers receive clear tasks, deadlines, reminders, and portal access instead of disconnected email requests.
• Cross-functional visibility: Buyers, quality, engineering, finance, logistics, compliance, and management can see the same process status and supplier context.
• Better data quality: Supplier information, documents, workflow history, and decision records are captured in structured fields instead of informal documents and emails.
• Better traceability: Audit logs, approval history, supplier submissions, corrective actions, and status changes are easier to review later.
• Improved supplier accountability: Suppliers can be assigned specific tasks, improvement plans, corrective actions, and data update requests.
• More actionable supplier management: Data from claims, compliance, audits, sourcing, scorecards, and onboarding can be connected across the supplier lifecycle.

The practical result is not just automation for its own sake. Supplios gives supplier-facing teams a cleaner operating system for the work they already do every day.