Overview:
UPS Supplier management provides visibility and control over global suppliers to ensure the critical front-end of the supply chain runs smoothly without investment in expensive technology or resources. By leveraging its international infrastructure, UPS acts as a customer’s eyes and ears around the world, bridging time zones, cultures, distances, and languages to keep the entire supply chain moving smoothly.

By helping companies build tighter connectivity with their suppliers they often achieve short lead times, higher quality and more reliable fulfillment, and optimized net trade cycles and supply chain performance.

UPS Supplier Management Features:
UPS’s Supplier Management program entails 35 activities performed at origin to ensure flawless transport and importation of goods – which can be grouped into 5 categories:

• Vendor compliance and order management
• Regulatory compliance management
• Origin distribution
• Transportation management
• Global information management

UPS Supplier Management links vendors, geographies, buyers, logisticians, products and shipments to manage global logistics at a local level according to the client’s own operating procedures.

UPS Supplier Management Advantages:
Supplier Management helps companies reduce logistics costs by:

• Allowing companies to expand globally without financial investment.
• Assuring vendor-compliance before goods are shipped.
• Helping importers manage the delivery of parts, supplies or finished goods on any item and SKU to assure the products are delivered in the right condition, to the right place and in the right way.
• Coordinating transportation based on a holistic view of products within a company’s supply chain funnel to ensure the optimal mix of containerization and transportation to improve overall transportation costs.
• Ensuring what is ordered is received at the right time; preventing stockouts, shortages and delivery delays; or the need to hold higher levels of inventory to avoid these situations.