Suppliers refuse to contribute DDS to supplier portal – workaround?

None of our suppliers is actually willing to transmit DDS-data via the supplier- portal, neither manually nor by using the API. The most common reason is the lack of capacities of suppliers IT-departmend to adjust the API to own ERPs for numerous customers. What workaround do you suggest to minimize manual work (like typing the DDS manually into the assessments) in the purchasing department? Even when we accept the manual work, the purchasing team needs lead-time to copy/paste the numbers which will inevitably lead to excessive administrative work and delays of the goods-acceptance process in our warehouse!

However, most suppliers will send none-standard *.csv-files containing DDS and information (of course only from the suppliers-perspective).


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Jonas-X-IT Answered question September 22, 2025