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Supplier Solicitation Campaigns Issues and Challenges
Importers need to collect an increasing amount of information from their suppliers to make determinations such as:

Partner compliance with fair practice and labor laws, environmental regulations, or other business practices of interest
The ingredients or chemical composition of products
Information about payment terms, available discounts, or other individualized questions
Eligiblity for C-TPAT or AEO designation

Challenges include:

Collecting, managing, and retrieving information across hundreds or thousands of suppliers using spreadsheets and manual systems
Integrating questionnaire information with compliance and supply chain operations
Maintaining this information and recertifying as required by internal policies or external authorities

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How Amber Road Can Help
Amber Road provides comprehensive questionnaire functionality to store and manage a growing question and answer base. Importers can use questionnaire information to source products appropriately and remain compliant with government programs.

Our questionnaire functionality serves as a platform for centralizing the management of this critical information gathering process for requirements such as C-TPAT, AEO, product classification, customer end use statements, distribution and warehousing self-assessments, etc.

Using a powerful questionnaire engine, users can create survey questions and a defined set of answers. These can be dynamically assembled into questionnaires that are associated with certain types of transactions.

Scores are assigned to responses based on configurable business rules. The score can be used to determine whether a transaction proceeds or is placed on hold. This is a powerful risk management, quality assurance and product classification tool. It ensures that potentially non-compliant transactions are flagged for exception management and resolution.

The questionnaire functionality also features question branching and response-driven workflow. Certain responses can be configured to notify other users, ask for clarification or require corrective action.

Importers can use search and reporting features to analyze questionnaire responses. All responses are stored and can be retrieved for audit and documentation purposes.

Features Benefits

Questionnaire Configuration

Develop a comprehensive repository of questions and answers, then dynamically configure the desired questionnaire
Assign questionnaires to a transaction type
Configure business rules to calculate scores for responses
Create workflows based on scores or responses
Branch to different questions based on responses
Use score thresholds to determine whether a transaction proceeds or is put on hold

Questionnaire Management

Search and query the database of answers to find suppliers meeting certain criteria
Retrieve responses for audit purposes
Email or print questionnaires
 

 

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"Amber Road's Trade Import solution has simplified Panasonic's import transactions by integrating critical global shipping information into our systems in real-time. As a result, we have started to achieve end-to-end visibility of our entire supply chain."
Group Manager, Panasonic Logistics