DDS SOURCING

The solution to optimize your international purchasing

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The problem

The DDS Sourcing solution

To efficiently control your international purchasing and your collections, calculating the costs incurred by remote transport logistics, these tasks have been made much easier thanks to DDS Sourcing.

A optimal purchasing strategy through precise sourcing

Collaborate with all of your partners
through our co-working portal. You stay connected to the collection managers, purchasing, your suppliers and the sourcing offices.
Centralize your requests for quotation
Express your needs directly on the DDS Sourcing web platform for your requests for quotation (RFQ). Your listed suppliers will send their bids that offer an appropriate response to your expression of needs.
Receive supplier catalogs
Your listed suppliers can offer their new products in a few clicks.
Calculate the cost price of your products
Simulate and compare your suppliers' offers on the basis of the total landed costs.

A quality reference repository to manage your products

List all of the selected products.
Manage the product data, from packaging to the recycling fee.
Cover the quality aspects by incorporating data related to the REACH regulation.
Calculate the sale prices on the basis of the total landed cost.

Efficient quality control

When interfaced with the Pivot88 quality control solution, DDS Sourcing offers a new service designed to guarantee the quality of imported products.

Improve the efficiency of your inspection processes and the quality of your products.
Organize the inspections of your orders.
Centralize the production data
suppliers, products, specifications, inspection reports, etc. on a single platform.
Reduce time wasted by collecting data manually.

Closer involvement of your buyers

Virtually exhibit your collections to your buyers in a digital showroom.
Present your listed collections to draw your buyers' attention to your new products.
Ask your buyers to raise pre-orders
consolidate and optimize pre-orders to cut transport costs.
Use the co-working portal to secure requests for your suppliers and to guarantee more efficient international sourcing.

An indicator that displays all of your data

Quickly view your key performance indicators in a simple and intuitive graphical display.
Analyze the data of your activity
turnover per product type, suppliers map and analysis of their activity in each country, etc.
Take decisions more quickly
by sharing data with your employees and suppliers.
You have all the analytical parameters you need to improve your processes.
Boost your company's performance
by using relevant indicators. The decision-support solution helps you make the right decisions for your company.

The DDS sourcing solution is doubly adapted to your needs:

You manage your international supplies in complete security, in a fully controlled way.
You always keep an eye on the quality of products and processes!

The benefits of DDS Sourcing

The benefits of the DDS sourcing solution are measurable at each step of the international purchasing process:

Shorter purchasing cycles

Thanks to the automation and acceleration of the sourcing process.

Reduced product acquisition costs

In your international procurement by controlling the total landed cost.

Input of data for the product reference repository

And priority access to their offers directly on DDS Sourcing.

Control your margins

And the availability lead times of purchased products.

Optimize the duty factor of your containers

right from the pre-order phase.

Productivity gains made by every player in the chain

for more profitable international sourcing.