Why Trace One Devex PLM? Quality management at every phase of product development
Create a more efficient and compliant supply chain with cloud-based, self-service supplier relationship management tools. Trace One’s Supplier Collaboration Portal helps both suppliers and client organizations facilitate and simplify qualification, registration, and auditing.
- Standardize processes, schedules, and expectations across suppliers.
- Simplify supplier auditing with easily implemented risk assessment functionalities.
- Drive efficiency and faster time to market by networking your supply chain in one platform.
- Reduce errors and missing information across supplier profiles.
Out of the box PLM Streamlining supplier collaboration
Trace One Devex PLM Supplier Collaboration Portal (SCP) is a cloud-based, self service tool designed for use by both supplier and client organizations to facilitate and simplify the qualification, registration and subsequent ongoing management of suppliers and vendors.
Explore Supplier Collaboration Portal in Trace One Devex PLM
Trace One Devex PLM 2025 Docusign Integration
Our Supplier Collaboration Portal supports Docusign integration, making it easier than ever for companies to sign documents electronically.
- Streamlined signatures: You can now effortlessly request electronic signatures for approved questionnaires and collect signed documents, all within the system.
- Enhanced efficiency: Save time by automating the document preparation, sending, and signing processes, improving operational efficiency across your supplier collaboration efforts.
- Total control and organization: Keep your supplier interactions organized and under control with a simple, intuitive signing workflow.
- Enterprise-grade security: Docusign offers the highest level of global security certifications and compliance controls, ensuring that your information, documents, and data are fully protected.
Standardizing Supplier Quality Workflows that meet the unique needs of your ingredient suppliers
Master product data you can trust to expedite product launches.
- Easy Onboarding
- Better Compliance, Less Risk
- Clearer Supplier Quality Management
- Cleaner Data
- Configurable to Your Needs
Collect data quickly
Collect more accurate and valid supplier information using standardized questionnaires.
Simple supplier quality management
Aggregate order certifications, vendor documentation, and regulatory material into one supplier profile while maintaining a history of communications.
Connect projects to vendors
Organize projects by facility or material origin, keeping all certifications and orders for specific suppliers in one place.
A hub for compliance
Ensure compliance by keeping all vendor documents and data in a central, useable format.
Stay on top of certification
Get automated pre-expiry notifications to track the validity of supplier certificates and audit statements.
Visibility over time
Survey the entire vendor lifecycle with supplier auditing logs and version control that help you track supplier information and profiles over time.
Identify risks early
Identify potential quality risks at the earliest stage of the supply chain process, during the on-boarding of suppliers and facilities.
Know how suppliers rank
Perform on-desk supplier auditing and categorize suppliers, facilities, and sourced materials according to well-defined risk criteria.
Resolve and remediate
Handle supplier corrective action requests (SCARs) to resolve quality issues within your supplier relationship management tools.
Data self-determination
Structure and standardize required supplier data and engage their supply chain through customizable questionnaires and document uploads.
Inbound accuracy
Get clean, accurate data from suppliers and vendors for each material and process.
Find what you need
Browse a complete, easy-to-search document management library for each vendor.
Workflows your way
Customize your workflows with event-driven notifications from Trace One’s supplier relationship management tools.
Nested suppliers
Introduce multi-parent hierarchies for managing indirect supplier relationships, allowing a supplier to collaborate with multiple brokers.
Forms that fit
Highly customizable forms, featuring conditional and knock-out questions that result in instant rejection.
"New suppliers are onboarded through [Trace One] SCP, saving the procurement team a lot of time. Also, procurement team members can easily look up the packaging specifications in [Trace One Devex PLM] when they need to reach out to our suppliers."
- Director of project management, food company
Expert-guided success The Trace One Process
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Blueprinting
We guide your teams through fast, effective design workshops to uncover the perfect configuration for your new PLM system.
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Implementation
Trace One builds out the PLM system based on your unique requirements. We’ll help you settle into your new workflows and support each team on their piece of the data migration.
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Validation
Before launch, we validate the PLM system in your environment based on established use cases and perform detailed testing.
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Go Live
The clear and guided Trace One approach works to mitigate risk, nerves, and resistance to change. Our experts create a project plan with an eye to minimal downtime as the shift is made from in-development to a live environment.
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Maximize collaboration Connect disparate teams across the entire product lifecycle
Research & Development
Meet go-to-market and budget timeline demands. Overcome data silos and leverage collaboration tools to formulate faster and access the right info at the right time throughout the entire product lifecycle. Maintain version control and eliminate redundancies and repetition with a Single Source of Truth (SSOT) platform. Optimize costs and meet consumer, market and regulatory requirements.
Regulatory Affairs
Eliminate consumer issues like improper labeling that can lead to a consumer getting sick from a mislabeled allergen and recalls with a comprehensive regulatory compliance framework. Perform real-time compliance checks throughout the product development process. Perfect product data governance ensuring product labels are populated with the accurate information.
Quality Management
Mitigate brand reputation damage of non-compliance to quality standards and certifications. Prevent financial loss due to inaccurate or poor product data. Ensure end-to-end visibility into quality management processes. Guarantee feedback reaches the right people at the right times so that each team can address quality issues before they get lost in transmission or passed onto the next stage of production.
Procurement & Supply Chain Management
Eliminate supply chain risks that occur when raw materials aren’t delivered on time or at all, thereby causing disruption to the flow of products and materials. Trace One Devex PLM supplier quality management ensures supply chain traceability and proactive management of potential issues.
Marketing & Innovation
Facilitate input from marketing professionals to product teams. Make sure new products match what consumers and the market demand with requirements-driven product development.
IT
Embrace digital transformation: ensure all the corporate systems speak to each other. Unify and consolidate platforms. Integrate your existing ERP system with Trace One Devex PLM for seamless product data sharing.
Let’s Get in Touch
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SEE HOW CUSTOMERS USE Trace One Devex PLM Featured Case Studies
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Food and Beverage
The largest pasta company in the world perfects product development governance, formulation, and nutritional labeling with Trace One Devex PLM
Barilla Group streamlines recipe development, manages nutrition labeling, and maintains compliance with regulatory requirements with the help of Trace One Devex PLM.
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Cosmetics
Learn how a beauty enterprise finds lasting success with Trace One
Shiseido accelerates time to market and greater consistency in their collaboration across brands with Trace One Devex PLM.
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Specialty Chemicals
Streamlining business processes with PLM for Manufacturers (Devex)
With Trace One Devex PLM, the automotive paint company provides a smart color matching tool to individual body shops, facilitating exact color match for a damaged car.