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Supplier Collaboration / RFx

Streamline processes throughout the supply chain

Manufacturers face intense cost and competitive pressures, forcing them to seek solutions that improve supplier collaboration. For example, the high-touch, people-centric RFx (request for information, request for quote, request for proposal) process requires many resources to pull together a diverse package of information and then to control and manage distribution and IP protection. Historically paper intensive, the entire RFx process draws from multiple sources of information including 3D design information, business terms, manufacturing capacity and production requirements, governance and legal guidelines, and supplier capabilities. To improve supplier collaboration, better control of the RFx process is prerequisite.

Why 4Point and Adobe Enterprise Solutions

4Point and the Adobe enterprise suite can help reduce the overall complexity, time, and cost of supplier collaboration while helping customers mitigate the risk associated with better electronic communication. The RFx process, a key component of supplier collaboration, is a complicated one that can be better managed with a practical, user-friendly, PDF-based solution that takes maximum advantage of Adobe Reader.

Benefits

Improve supply chain efficiencies by solving a complex challenge with a practical, simple-to-implement solution.
Enhance supplier collaboration by delivering more accurate and complete requirements to suppliers and by managing revision control outside the firewall.
Leverage existing information assets, including 3D, more effectively by converting to PDF and delivering via free Adobe® Reader® software to anyone in the world.
Minimize loss of sensitive information by controlling information packages with digital rights management.

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Supplier Collaboration / RFx Solution Brief (PDF, 304 KB)
Manufacturing Business Technology White Paper (PDF, 336 KB)