Inovis Partner Performance includes four on-demand services to manage suppliers and trading partners, including modules for onboarding, day-to-day operations, vendor deductions and scorecards.

This service is a perfect fit for partner managers who've reached their limit in using an email-and-spreadsheet approach to manage thousands of suppliers and don't have the visibility or scale to execute program changes or summarize vendor performance.

Inovis' Partner Performance software helps retailers and suppliers work together on these challenges by improving the quality of shared business processes, such as ordering, invoicing, logistics, deductions and compliance.

Each service is integrated into the Inovis Business Community Management platform, used by over 20,000 companies, and can also work with any third-party value-added network (VAN) or data source.

Here's how it works. First, your compliance rules and deduction rules are modeled. Next, orders, invoices, shipment notifications and other transactions are monitored to identify compliance and operational issues. Vendor certification programs help rollout partners. And dashboards provide managers with visibility to partner performance.

Four Modules to Choose From:

• Community Management helps rollout and certify vendors to compliance changes. Surveys, email notifications and task-lists help gauge vendor readiness to program updates prior to rollout. Vendors can self-test for compliance certification against specific business rules and compliance guides, not just document syntax. And since this is an on-demand service, the trading partner database can become the single source for maintaining partner contacts.
• Deductions Management automates a retailer's vendor deduction program, helping organizations increase the recovery of possible deductions while reducing the need for time-consuming research. By validating transactions against compliance guides, you can trigger deduction items, associate them with root-cause data and track to closure.
• Operations Support gives distribution center teams visibility to data-related errors in shipment notifications, orders and invoices by tracking the quality of "in-flight" partner transactions. Web services integration and all common data formats are supported, including EDI, XML, EDIFACT, X12 and flat file.
• Scorecard Management automates the vendor scorecarding process, enabling a portfolio approach to business community management. You can track partner performance by product category, process or facility and kickoff remediation programs to fix chronic transaction problems.

Inovis Partner Performance Management can help you to:

• Get 10X faster partner onboarding, so that products get to market faster.
• Solve chronic data problems, by getting visibility to root-cause information.
• Simplify deduction processing, triggering deductions items from transaction errors.
• Automate vendor scorecards, paving the way for targeted remediation programs.