Sourcing Solutions

Reduce supply costs and risks with global sourcing strategies

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Reduce supply costs and risks by creating, executing, and sustaining global sourcing strategies. Enable collaboration with suppliers by bridging product development, sourcing, supply planning, and procurement across the supply chain.

i2 Sourcing Solutions include:

i2 Strategic Sourcing: Lower the cost of goods sold by developing global sourcing strategies for each commodity and supplier.
i2 Product Sourcing: Align product design with corporate strategies for material reuse and global sourcing to determine the best parts and suppliers to use for each product.
i2 Component Supplier Management: Reduce total purchasing cost for direct and indirect materials by using this powerful catalog and content search solution.
i2 Hazardous Materials Management: Manage the product design and manufacturing process to ensure compliance with environmental regulations.
i2 Contract Management: Create, administer, monitor, and manage global contracts across the enterprise.
i2 Total Landed Cost: Determine the supply chain conditions required to make profitable low-cost country (LCC) sourcing decisions.
i2 Negotiate: Establish a repeatable sourcing process that automates the creation, distribution, response, and analysis of the bid package process.
i2 Part Navigator: Increase reuse and preferred part usage by leveraging online search tools.

“i2 solutions are optimizing Toshiba’s business processes by enabling us to conduct purchasing activities more efficiently, with greater speed due to the Web, and with more reliable suppliers,” Suzuki said. “Our implementation also is enabling us to handle a large volume of RFQs – between 7,000 and 8,000 per site at six of our major factories in Japan.”

Seijiro Suzuki, Chief Information Officer, Toshiba Semiconductor Company

i2 Component Supplier Management

i2 Contract Management

i2 Hazardous Materials Management

i2 Negotiate

i2 Part Navigator

i2 Product Sourcing

i2 Strategic Sourcing

i2 Total Landed Cost