If your procurement team still decides on suppliers based on “they’ve always been fine,” it’s time to break up with gut instinct. Epicor Kinetic ERP and Data V Tech’s expertise in integration bring you something far more reliable — real-time supplier performance intelligence that feeds directly into your procurement and quality workflows.
Why Integrate Supplier Data? Because Guesswork Doesn’t Scale
In today’s manufacturing jungle, supply chains are only as strong as the weakest vendor — and the spreadsheet that tracks them. By integrating supplier performance data directly into Epicor Kinetic’s procurement and quality modules, organizations can monitor suppliers with the same rigor they apply to internal production metrics.
Epicor Kinetic turns your supplier management into a continuous feedback loop: scorecards update in real-time, quality issues trigger automatic workflows, and procurement gets the intel it needs to make faster, smarter sourcing decisions.
What Integration Looks Like in Action
Forget toggling between systems or chasing reports that age faster than fresh milk. Epicor’s native supplier portals and dashboards pull everything together:
- Procurement teams see live supplier ratings on delivery, cost, and responsiveness.
- Quality teams track non-conformances, corrective actions, and audit results without rekeying data.
- Management benchmarks suppliers against KPIs like defect rate, on-time delivery, and cost variance — all visualized in Kinetic dashboards.
- When suppliers miss targets, automated alerts flag it instantly. When they improve, their scorecards reflect it. That’s transparency manufacturers can actually use.
Quality + Procurement = One Brain, Not Two Silos
Epicor’s Supplier Quality Management and Advanced Quality Management (AQM) modules make supplier data part of the decision-making fabric. Procurement decisions automatically factor in quality history. Quality inspections tie back to purchase orders and vendors. The result? One version of the truth across teams, no awkward “who owns this problem” moments.
How to Make It Sing: Best Practices from the Field
- Standardize scorecards. Measure every supplier with the same KPIs—quality, delivery, cost, service—and keep them updated.
- Automate alerts. Use Epicor BPM workflows to flag non-compliance instantly.
- Centralize communication. Keep supplier documents, messages, and audit trails in one place for faster reviews and cleaner compliance.
- Leverage analytics. Real-time dashboards aren’t just pretty—they’re predictive. Spot performance dips before they hit production.
Bonus tip: Tools like SourceDay integrate seamlessly with Epicor to automate PO updates and sync supplier performance data as transactions happen. It’s like giving your supply chain a nervous system.
The Payoff: Transparency, Agility, and Fewer Headaches
When supplier performance data flows through procurement and quality workflows, manufacturers gain control instead of chaos. You get:
- Data-backed supplier evaluations
- Proactive issue management
- Streamlined audits and reporting
- Stronger, more transparent supplier relationships
In short: fewer surprises, better sourcing, and higher-quality output. Or, as we like to say at Data V Tech — “less firefighting, more foresight.”
