MozartCC - Purchase Order (P.O.) Collaboration Module

Purchase Order (P.O.) Collaboration is one of the key modules of MozartCC Supply Collaboration.
P.O. Collaboration gives your Product Enterprise key data and visibility to improve the on-time delivery performance of your Manufacturing partners or Vendors¹ (CM²s and ODMs) on discrete Purchase Orders.

Key Capabilities

Simple, rapid sharing of P.O. data between enterprise and Vendors, changes to P.O., 2-way Notifications and Alerts
Automated Vendor P.O. acknowledgment, delivery commit and re-schedule process
Vendor on-time-delivery (OTD) performance tracking (via metrics) and up-to-date Lead-time visibility
Inbound in-transit receipts trigger, vendor documents tracking, hand-off to accounts payable (AP) for billing process

Benefits

Detailed Capabilities

Load Approved POs from ERP system to Mozart's PO Collaboration module:
1. Supports different categories of inventory POs: for sharing and access by Vendors (example: "Approved", "Released")
2. Vendors (CM/ODM) only access their own P.O.s
Vendor (CM/ODM) updates to PO limited to specific fields only (with rules):
1. PO receipt acknowledgment - within X working days of receipt (example, X=2)
2. Schedule PO line items shipment - ability to split line items
3. Ability to reschedule PO line items
Flag Alerts - such as:
1. PO not acknowledged within X working days
2. PO line item not scheduled within Y working days of receipt
Exclude line-item from OTD calculation on an exception basis:
1. Exceptions must be justified in comments, such as (following only a subset):
  - PVT units - do not count in OTD
  - Upside - do not count in OTD
2. Both the Enterprise and Vendor can run OTD reports, including and excluding exceptions
Update latest PO data - Any updates to PO updates Mozart
Enables Vendor to trigger Ship & In-Transit receipt process - Supports a set of steps including Buyer notification once 'Shipment' is triggered by Vendor,
1. Buyer review of documents attached by Supplier
2. Approval for In-transit transaction, makes In-transit data available for downstream actions - ERP updates, notify AP to review inbound P.O. docs and prepare for billing.
3. All shipment documents can be viewed in Mozart.
4. Vendor notified if documents are non-compliant so they can update and resend documents.
Up to date On-demand OTD (On-time Delivery) performance metrics - Enables automated, near Real-time reporting of metrics. Vendor has full visibility of OTD reports only for the models they supply. Metrics such as:
1. Current Leadtime
2. Actual Leadtime
3. PO Schedule TAT (turnaround-time)
Dovetails with MBS Collaboration process: This complements the MBS (Master Build Schedule) Collaboration process (and Mozart module) which is used to publish monthly or weekly supply forecast (MBS) to Vendors & enables Vendor to provide commits (CTB), among other capabilities.

¹Vendors is used interchangeably with Manufacturing partners (CMs, ODMs)
²CM = Contract Manufacturer; ODM = Original Design Manufacturer

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