Global Supplier Chart Visualizes opportunities in your supply base for cost savings. Lets you analyze your supply base, identifying overcharging and undercharging suppliers. Each bubble represents a supplier; hover over a bubble to view supplier details. Bubble size indicates supplier spend level. Overcharging suppliers have an Akoya Spend Index above zero. Right click on a supplier bubble and select “Jump to Supplier Portfolio” to see individual parts and their contribution to overall Akoya Spend Index.

• Analyze big picture trends

  View and analyze overall supply chain efficiency trends and gain the ability to monitor a key part of your product lifecycle – from engineering through sourcing.

• Get insights into materials specification fragmentation Gain the ability to baseline and benchmark material specifications based on different suppliers, parts or manufacturing plants, allowing your engineers to make smarter decisions with more real time data. Find out if the source materials being specified have become fragmented throughout your organization due to use of an unnecessarily large list of raw materials.

• Create baselines and track benchmarks Based on Akoya baselines, benchmark your company’s supply chain effectiveness against the industry and track your company’s supply chain effectiveness against its own past performance.

• Evaluate supply chain risks and opportunities See the overall interaction between engineering and procurement and see the overall interaction between procurement and your supply chain. Get insights into potential supply chain risks or opportunities based on Akoya’s parts feature, pricing, supplier and material views. 

• Get negotiation intelligence Find outliers and norms that arm you and your team with deep intelligence that your competition doesn’t have.

• Enjoy global capability Akoya is robust enough to handle complex global process structures – so your entire team around the world is working from the same data.

• Experience minimal operational disruption during implementation Because the Akoya team completes the implementation, your IT team need not get involved. And as part of your annual fee, Akoya trains your supply chain and engineering teams so they can get the most out of the system.