Protect Your Organization with Fully Supported Export Control Capabilities

Co-eXprise CX4 Compliance enables value added compliance protection of your most sensitive technical data for both your internal team members and authorized supply partners. Variable encryption levels of 128/256/512 can be selected for your appropriate level of protection.

Integrate Engineering Documents Directly into Your Strategic Sourcing Process

The Co-eXprise SCF (Secure Collaborative Format) converts multiple versions of CAD/PDM 3D solid models and related documents into one business friendly and highly secure neutral format.

• No need for suppliers to buy expensive engineering design software to view and quote direct materials.
• Gives you the ability to comprehensively expose 3D solid models, drawings, and related documents for quoting and negotiation activities at the assembly level, sub-assembly level or part level depending upon your sourcing strategy. Traditional PDM functionality such as measuring, rotating, exploding, and collaborating are available in the strategic sourcing process for both buyers and suppliers.
• The CX4 Sourcing Life-cycle Solution is a highly secure format that is easily accessible to your authorized users via the web.

Reduce Time, Travel, and Onsite Meetings

• Co-eXprise collaborative technology enables you to fully collaborate on Sourcing Life-cycle Management issues with your internal team or supply partners via a highly secure internet connection.
• Utilize Co-eXprise project management capabilities to effectively manage timelines and deliver on-time performance of internal and external team objectives. The CX4 Solution provides immediate access to critical team members, suppliers, documents, process steps, tasks and overall status associated with each project.
• CX4 platform flexibility enables the replication and reuse of your business process steps, your team members, and your supply partners based on your unique business needs.
• Co-eXprise technologies rapidly improve manufacturing implementation and quality processes such as First Article Inspection through easy to use interactive digital forms. Apply quality processes to assemblies at the individual part level - track, manage, and collaborate, on the quality aspects of your implementation strategy quickly and easily through this unique technology.

Bring Additional Competition to Your Direct Spend Sourcing Opportunities

• Automatic download of Bills-of-Material directly from 3D solid model formats offers easy, fast, and efficient quote collection, eliminating weeks to months from traditional quote collection timeframes.
• Full breadth of online negotiation formats including real-time online auctions provides you with the flexible strategies to obtain best market value for direct material purchases.
• First of its kind, Total Cost Negotiation platform includes a formula builder enabling you to quickly and easily create the factors for your internal buying team. All suppliers or individual suppliers gain full visibility into supplier cost structure which delivers the ability to effectively measure complex multi-variable supply offerings so that best value supply opportunities can be delivered to the bottom line.
• Access to a wide variety RFx functionality including commodity templates and supplier templates with weighting and scoring capabilities. RFI functionality provides side by side comparisons for optimal supply award decisions.

Co-eXprise Supply Chain Professionals can provide additional domain expertise to your organization through access to CX Service Offerings. Our team of highly skilled supply chain professionals can enhance your organizations capabilities through:

• Training team members, power users, administrators and supply partners
• Enabling your administrator through one-on-one workshops
• Providing value added compliance training
• Project and spend opportunity assessments
• Project review and consultation
• Market making assistance
• Bid-day administrative support such as surrogate bidding, and neutral third party monitoring and support services.
• Full service markets for energy products such as Electricity and Natural Gas.