LCM PURCHASE. Contract Management and Supplier Relationship Management for Purchasing and Procurement Organizations

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1 LCM PURCHASE Contract Management and Supplier Relationship Management for Purchasing and Procurement Organizations

2 LCM PURCHASE 2/3 LCM PURCHASE The Quality Group is a leading supplier and consulting company for Enterprise Information Management. The Product Suite LCM (LifeCycle Management) is a company-wide life cycle management solution for optimizing and future-proof structuring of business processes, contracts, documents and responsibilities. It is modular, inter-departmental and reliable in storage, searches, and traceability. Workflows provide user-friendly support to ensure adherence to compliance guidelines throughout your procedures and projects. LCM Purchase is a spezialized application of the Product Suite LCM which particularly supports strategic and tactical procurement tasks and improves operational processes and information through exchanges with data from ERP systems. The strategic purchasing process is sustainable and transparent improved and optimized.

3 LCM PURCHASE 4/5 PRODUCT OVERVIEW LCM PURCHASE LCM Purchase supports the purchasing organization with functionalities for demand management, supplier selection, supplier evaluation and supplier relationship management as well as with the treatment of procurement projects (tenders, auctions, offer-comparisons, etc.) The management of contracts in the procurement process is particularly supported by the integration of existing ERP environments using creditors/debtors master data or harmonization of systems. Integration and usability avoid duplicate data maintenance and facilitate easy handling. Your contracts under control. LCM Contract Management The contract life cycle from creation, documentation, monitoring, accountability, risk assessment through to archiving. Easy to use generation, storing, researching and evaluation of contracts. According to the contract type any process steps and activities for compliance, monitoring and protection of the contractual process can be used. For the future of your records. LCM Matter Management Provides records diversity and technological aids to support the necessary input processes and to make them 100% retrievable with quick, simple search functions. Predefined, proven record types such as procurement, biding or supplier records make your job easier! Professional supply management. LCM Procurement Management A procurement project can be mapped in a procurement record that includes all relevant requirements and procurement data. functions, management reporting for product groups, spend analysis and other supplier assessment results are available for sourcing. Better, faster and well-informed decisions, at anytime. LCM Reporting Provides quick access to all relevant data with user-defined evaluation and analysis options. All data collected in LCM can be used for reporting and analysis purposes. Added value by combining the knowledge of all purchasing data and its sources. LCM Supplier Relationship Management and Supplier Portfolio Provides a highly automated supplier assessment feature for measuring the performance of existing suppliers, supplier classification through customizable factors and supplier development as well as a automated supplier qualification with the Six Sigma Method (DMAICT). The supplier portfolio renders a graphical presentation of the stress ratio between the profit contribution and the supply risk and presents strategic recommendations for supplier integration. Effective administration of creditor master data. LCM Supplier Master Data Management Creditor master data is directly and periodically integrated into LCM from existing ERP-systems. Additionally, supplier master data based on a specific process for the supplier questionnaire are stored and managed in LCM. Measurable results and high acceptance for all. LCM Rating With the help of self-defined criteria and points systems, you are able to create your own evaluation categories for analysis by your organization. The individual approach and the structured option to provide so-called hard and soft criteria forms the basis of an evaluation scheme that is independent of case, sector or performance. BEST PRACTICE LCM SRM Management Supplier Relationship Management complements LCM with functionalities for strategic purchasing. go!lcm Record Packages for medium-size businesses for matter management. go!lcm Contract Packages for medium-size businesses for contract management.

4 LCM LEGAL 6/7 WE ARE COMMITTED... Through the use of LCM we optimize our global processes and attain an enormous savings in time for administration of contracts and documents. Dr. Michael J. Schmitt, Henkel Law Group, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA LCM is characterized by its individual adaptability and user-friendliness. All processes and responsibilities are managed in a transparent and intuitive manner, their functionalities relieve the burden on our daily business. Heiko Schlütter, Central Personnel and Legal Department, Dyckerhoff AG LCM offers us the ability, efficiency and transparency in dealing with contracts to increase continuously to develop further and thereby improve our business. Dr. Gesine Zimmermann, Chief of Contract Management Bayer MaterialScience AG Contract management is the systematic process for contracts including preparation, enforcement, administration, monitoring, adjusting, evaluating, terminating and archiving. LCM from The Quality Group can significantly support these functions.... and numerous others Jörn Lipkow, LL.M., Lawyer and Corporate Counsel, Carl Zeiss AG And you?

5 YOUR INSPIRATION THE QUALITY GROUP GMBH AT A GLANCE The Quality Group is a leading supplier and consulting company with an integrated solution for administrative business processes. The software product suite LCM and TQG s advisory skills support and consult Enterprise Information Management (EIM) successfully. Employing the TQG product suite measurably increases and improves customer satisfaction by optimizing the processes of contract management, risk and compliance management, supplier relationship management (SRM) and horizontal information flow. The Quality Group GmbH Location Böblingen Konrad-Zuse-Platz Böblingen Germany Phone: Fax: [email protected] Location Hamburg Weidestraße Hamburg Germany Phone: Fax: For more information: