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Supplier Management

Clear supplier hurdles so your business can stay on track.

With so many moving parts and processes involved when sourcing from multiple international vendors, you're vulnerable to missing scheduled deliveries—and the resulting inefficiencies and costs required to recover. Our experts provide visibility and guidance to proactively solve the challenges and orchestrate an inbound sourcing process that meets your business objectives.

Engage our expertise, facilities, and technology so you can sprint past supplier challenges like different time zones, languages, carriers, and distance, moving your core business forward.

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Who This Is For

Traditionally larger retailers and distributors but today any company with a global supply chain coordinating shipments from multiple vendors, locations and transport modes can benefit from using UPS Supplier Mgmt.

Put Tools and Talent to Task

Combine the visibility and collaboration capabilities of our cloud-based software with our proven logistics and global resources, and you have a strategy for success. You'll be able to monitor orders from as early as a P.O. is generated, through shipping via all modes and carriers, straight through delivery. You can identify issues and collaborate with vendors and carriers to proactively devise a cost-effective solution early on, avoiding penalties, storage costs, inflated rates for partial containers, workforce inefficiencies... and dissatisfied customers.

Information Platform

Using UPS Order Watch®—our cloud-based software—you, your suppliers, and UPS monitor and communicate collaboratively in real-time, from placing the order through final delivery.

Avoid the cost and chaos that plague inbound supply chains by solving for shipping delays, combining shipments for better container utilization and adjusting transportation modes and timelines to reduce expediting shipments.

Logistics Infrastructure and Management

Our operational expertise, combined with real-time information provided by UPS Order Watch, can add immense efficiencies to your supply chain. Working together, UPS will build a Standard Operating Plan with customized trigger points and required actions that align to your processes and vendor-specific objectives.

As your logistics partner, we'll develop strategies for origin consolidation, direct bypass, interim warehousing and other solutions while focusing on optimizing shipments, carrier usage, and modes to meet your goals.

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