FAQs
The Vendor Portal application that is the basis of Simplain has been in the market for 10 years now.
Simplain Vendor Portal is a cloud-based (SaaS) subscription-based service that will allow your vendors to provide controlled data in your ERP / MDM system as well as view-controlled information provided by your ERP system on a fully secured platform.
Our Multi-Tenant SaaS solution is available on Microsoft Azure.
We have On Premise and Single Tenant Deployment as per customer’s requirement. We can work with customers to deliver a single tenant deployment on other Cloud Providers such as Azure, AWS, SAP, and Oracle. We can provide specific customer references for various modes of deployments.
We currently have resellers to co-sell and add-value. We also work with well-known system integrators that adopt our solutions and build a larger infrastructure on our platform. Please contact the Simplain sales team to learn more about our Re-seller/Partnership program.
We are currently offering: Vendor Registration and Management, Item Introduction and Management, Cost/Mass Cost, Deals, Rebate, Invoice, PO - Management, and KPI modules. In addition, there is an Administration control module that is required for these modules. Other modules may be added in the future. The Vendor Portal Base Platform is essential to install any module.
No, you can select which modules will help maximize your company’s effectiveness. Just choose from the modules listed in the website solution listing.
We provide customized implementation services for every customer to make sure they are deriving the maximum benefit out of our solution. We also provide Supply Chain Engineering, integration services, Managed Services using our expertise in the Grocery and Convenience Store Industry for 14 years.
One of the available modules is the Key Performance Index (KPI). If you choose to activate this module, you will have quantitative reports to analyze and drill-down on to improve your measurables. The ROI is served from operational value, saving valuable time of Buyers and Category Managers, mitigating compliance risks, and losing revenue due to invoice, deal, rebate mishandling and inconsistencies.
Vendor Portal customers include Dollar General, Longo’s Markets, United Supermarkets, and Southeastern Grocers, Freson Bros, Grocery Outlet etc. We are pleased to have a base of wonderful partners.
Frequently Asked Questions about Simplain and our Grocery Vendor Portal Software
Since we are using standard Web Services for data feeds, it does not matter what software packages Simplain Vendor Portal interfaces with. Individual modules can be configured to work with other 3rd party systems. An example would be the Item Introduction module that can optionally be configured to work with GS1 for utilizing standardized product UPCs.
We do not attempt to replace an ERP system. Instead, we work together with whatever your ERP / MDM system is. The advantage of Simplain Vendor Portal is that we can scale to your system. This is quite useful for small to mid-size corporations with a smaller-scaled system but wants to immediately take advantage of secured vendor communication and data feeds that smaller-scaled systems cannot provide for you.