SureFront centralizes procurement by letting suppliers submit products in one place, then buyers search, request quotes, chat with suppliers, and generate purchase orders without juggling emails and spreadsheets. The platform tracks everything from RFQs through approval and ERP integration.
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Are you tired of sifting through hundreds of emails and spreadsheets every day trying to find new products from many different suppliers? SureFront is here to help. SureFront's buying suite consolidates all of your work into one place with all products, quotes, and supplier collaboration in the same easy format. Let's take a look. In SureFront, your suppliers will send you new product lines in one standardized format and in one central location for you to review. In this centralized showcase of new items, you can search, sort, and filter across all product offerings from all suppliers to find the products you are most interested in. With two clicks of a button, you can select products across multiple suppliers and generate multiple RFQs for these new products. These generated RFQs will populate in your quotes inbox. This inbox contains not only the RFQs that you've sent your suppliers, but also incoming quotes from suppliers as well. This is a shared inbox for your whole team to work with all of your supplier partners in one place. When jumping to the details of a specific quote, SureFront has a suite of tools to support your collaboration with your supplier to nail down the details of each item. First, we have a real-time chat for you to communicate with your supplier, perhaps to request samples for some of these products. We also have a private team chat so that your colleagues can discuss costing, quantities, and assortment fits behind the scenes without informing your supplier. Both of these tools help your team and your supplier collaborate together for anywhere around the world. Each product on the quote also has a full set of product details that are defined by you and your team and that you can rely on the supplier to complete. Each attribute can be commented on, and every change that is made either by your team or by your supplier partner to the product is comprehensively tracked in in an events table that shows you who changed what when, from what value to what new value, so that you know exactly how you got to where the product is today. Lastly, each product can be added to one or more customizable workflows that fit your team's work process. This enables you to plan and track the progression of each product through the buying process and to visualize where blockers arise and what's ready to move on to the next step. Once products are finalized and you're ready to place commitments, you can select the products that you wanna move forward with and create purchase orders in Shorefront that will send automatically to your ERP system or can be downloaded in customizable purchase order worksheets. Once you've generated the purchase order, Your team can finalize all of the details like quantities, price, and timing. You can even submit for manager approval either using the chat or the customizable workflow feature. Then when you're ready, you can send to your supplier for confirmation. Orders in SureFront have the same suite of collaboration tools as quotes, so you and your supplier partner can nail down the details before sending to your ERP system. SureFront will log all of the items on this order and start to create a report so that you can identify and review your assortment. In the assortment review created from the orders you've made in SureFront, you can easily identify gaps and opportunities and then start the buying process again from showcases or quotes. Just like that, SureFront has transformed the buying lifecycle from dozens of emails and spreadsheets traded back and forth for weeks to a few simple steps for you and your supplier. SureFront is a buyer's best friend and improves speed to market and gives you a competitive edge in your buying.
