Smart supplier management to power productivity
Bring your supplier management out of your emails and onto a unified procurement platform.
Delivering value across the supplier lifecycle.
Stronger supplier relationships
Build trust and collaboration with suppliers through transparent communication, self-service portals, and faster response cycles.
Improved compliance
Centralize supplier information and verify supplier details to ensure you work only with compliant and reliable vendors.
Cost savings and negotiations
Gain visibility into supplier transactions, delivery timelines, and supplier performance enabling data-driven negotiations and competitive bidding for the best value.
Operational efficiency and productivity
Eliminate manual processes with automated onboarding, PO to bill conversion, and performance tracking, improving focus on more productive tasks.
Supplier portal and onboarding
- Onboarding
Simple and quick onboarding
Simply add a supplier to trigger an email invite and let the supplier set up their details via the vendor self service portal.
- Custom portal
Custom vendor portal
Dedicated supplier portal that can be customized to allow suppliers to collaborate contextually within a PO or an invoice without lengthy mail trails.
- Self-service
Collect and validate information
Collect necessary information, documents, and details to validate and add suppliers in the company roster.
- Sourcing
Bidding and PO updates
Send RFQs for bidding processes, upload approved POs to enable supplier transparency and information throughout sourcing.
- Payments
Payment status updates
Every invoice and its payment update can be tracked within the portal by the suppliers and comment with queries, clarifications, follow-ups, and more for each transaction.
Supplier information and performance management
Centralized supplier database
Maintain a single source of truth for all supplier details, documents, and compliance records.
Real-time updates
Suppliers can update their information directly, ensuring you always have the latest details.
Data analysis
Analyze historical contractual, transactional, and performance data for better negotiations and decision making.
Performance scorecards
Measure suppliers on KPIs like quality, delivery time, responsiveness, and cost-effectiveness.
Supplier collaboration
Contextual communication
Collaborate directly within POs, invoices, or RFQs without relying on scattered email threads.
Document exchange
Securely share, review, and approve documents in a structured, auditable manner.
From source-to-pay, build a value
chain that lasts.
Run RFP sourcing events with in-depth auction management.
Sourcing
Contract authoring, approvals, repository, and more with Zoho Procurement.
Offer guided buying through punchouts and automate company policy enforcement.
Procurement
Leverage smart 3-way matching for on-time payments through ACH.
AP automation
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Vendor management software or supplier management software allows businesses to simplify supplier onboarding, communication, collaboration, evaluation, and payment processing to ensure strong supplier relations, build dependable supply chains, and uncover innovative solutions through valuable synergies.
You need supplier management software if you manage multiple vendors and want to eliminate manual data entry, reduce procurement risks, and improve cost-efficiency. While traditional companies may rely on spreadsheets, modern businesses require a centralized platform to ensure regulatory compliance, track real-time performance, and maintain a resilient, transparent supply chain to stay ahead of the competition.
Zoho Procurement's comprehensive supplier management module with dedicated vendor portal software let's businesses centralize and manage all supplier data including business information, transactions, contracts, feedback, performance metrics, and more.
Yes, Zoho Procurement offers a dedicated supplier portal or vendor portal where the supplier can login and update their company information. The portal allows suppliers to add multiple employees as contacts, update company and banking information through self-service portal, participate in RFQ bidding, contextually collaborate with the RFQ team, upload bills, access POs, and more.
Yes, Zoho Procurement supplier portal or vendor portal is free for the supplier to access.Access can be enabled and granted for the supplier from within Zoho Procurement.