Foundation Vendor Portal

Effortless Vendor Discovery

Foundation simplifies finding new brands, helping you expand your vendor network quickly. With advanced search tools, you can easily identify vendors that match your specific criteria, keeping your product offerings fresh and competitive in the retail market.

Streamlined Onboarding Process

Foundation reduces the time and complexity of bringing new vendors on board. Our automated workflows ensure quick and simple vendor onboarding, allowing you to diversify your supplier base with minimal effort and maximize efficiency.

Minimal Effort for Vendors

Foundation makes it easy for vendors to share product data with retailers. Vendors can effortlessly keep their product catalogs up-to-date, ensuring that retailers always have the latest information with minimal effort from the vendor.

Comprehensive Vendor Insights

Foundation provides detailed analytics and reporting on vendor performance. Understand the implications of managing multiple vendors, enabling informed decision-making and optimizing your supply chain strategy to drive business growth.

Features

Onboard Vendors faster without the hassle

Foundation's Vendor Portal is designed to streamline vendor interactions, automate data updates, and provide insightful analytics, ensuring a seamless and efficient vendor management experience.

Vendor Self-Service Portal

Empower your vendors with a self-service portal where they can update product information, check order statuses, and manage their profiles, reducing administrative workload for your team.

Automated Product Catalog Updates

Ensure your product catalog is always current with automated updates from vendors. This feature integrates seamlessly with their PIM and eCommerce systems, eliminating manual data entry errors.

PIM and eCommerce Integrations

Seamless integration with popular PIM and eCommerce platforms ensures real-time data updates, maintaining accurate product information across systems between vendors and retailers.

Onboarding Wizard

Simplify the vendor onboarding process with an intuitive wizard that guides new vendors through each step, from initial registration to full integration, ensuring a smooth and efficient start.

Performance Analytics Dashboard

Gain valuable insights into vendor performance with a comprehensive analytics dashboard. Track key metrics, identify trends, and make informed decisions to optimize your supply chain.

Communication Hub

Enhance collaboration with a centralized communication hub. Vendors and retailers can exchange messages, share documents, and receive updates in real time, improving transparency and efficiency.

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Integrations

Integrates with tools used by Retailers & Brands

Connect your tools, connect your teams. With over 100 apps already available in our directory, your team’s favourite tools are just a click away.

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What is a Vendor Portal?

A Vendor Portal is an online platform that helps retailers and brands work together more efficiently.

‍For Retailers:

Acts as a centralized system to manage all vendor relationships, making it easier to oversee multiple vendors from one place.
Ensures that product data is always up-to-date by allowing vendors to directly update their information.
Streamlines the process of bringing new vendors on board, reducing the time and effort required.
Provides tools to monitor and analyze vendor performance, helping retailers make informed decisions
Provides a single window to shop from all the vendors to compare delivery time, price and catalogue

‍For Brands selling to Retailers:

Allows brands to easily update product information and catalogs, ensuring retailers have the latest data
Facilitates the tracking of orders, helping brands manage their sales to retailers effectively.
Enables brands to manage their profiles and compliance documents, ensuring they meet retailer requirements
Simplifies the management of compliance and certification requirements, making it easier to maintain necessary standards.
Improves communication with retailers through a centralized platform, fostering better collaboration and relationship management.

In essence, a Vendor Portal is a tool that simplifies and optimizes the management of vendor relationships for both retailers and brands, ensuring efficient operations and effective collaboration.

Can vendors update their product information themselves?

Yes, the Vendor Portal features a self-service portal where vendors can easily update their product information, check order statuses, and manage their profiles. Vendors can connect the Portal to their PIM, eCommerce platform or ERP system to seamlessly update product, price and inventory data.

How does the Vendor Portal help retailers make better purchase decisions?

The Vendor Portal provides a single window to view product catalogs from all onboarded vendors, making it easy for retailers to choose, compare, and place orders. Retailers can compare delivery times, pricing, catalog offerings, terms and conditions, and payment terms all in one place, streamlining the ordering process and ensuring they make the best purchasing decisions.

Is Foundation suitable for businesses new to wholesale?

Absolutely! Foundation is designed to be intuitive and user-friendly, making it an ideal choice for businesses of all sizes looking to expand into or grow their wholesale operations. Our platform simplifies the transition with easy setup and comprehensive support.

How does the Vendor Portal help retailers to onboard vendors faster?

The Vendor Portal simplifies the vendor onboarding process by providing an easy-to-use interface for vendors to upload product catalogs, provide real-time inventory information, and track orders. Vendors can also manage payment terms, order limits, and other contractual terms, making all necessary information readily available to retailers. This streamlined approach reduces the time and effort needed to get new vendors set up and ready to go.

Seamless Vendor Integration from Discovery to Management