How PPL Works with Suppliers

PPL is collaborating with Infor as part of our Digital Transformation journey to implement their FSM (Finance and Supply Management) solution, which integrates seamlessly with Hexagon’s EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) platform.

Infor FSM fuels your business with networked analytics and a best-in-class user experience augmented by artificial intelligence. With Infor FSM your organization can:

• Stay current on the latest versions of your software
• Access applications on any device, anywhere with Infor Go
• Scale cloud services to handle usage peaks and valleys
• Reduce your total cost of ownership and capital investment
• Integrate cloud and on-premises applications with pre-built APIs
• Democratize data across cloud and legacy applications to drive rich data insights
• Leverage pre-built analytics and dashboards for value-added decision support

In July 2022, we transitioned to Infor as our new enterprise platform for all purchase-to-pay processes. Our Infor Help page contains job aids, guides and other information that may be helpful. Please contact your respective Category Manager with any questions.

Visit Infor Help for Suppliers page

Requisitions

Leverage flexible, role-based capabilities for creating purchase requests and routing them for approvals, including support for multiple requesting locations. Accessible from any device, Infor FSM features an easy-to-use, Amazon-like shopping experience. Infor FSM’s requisition capabilities increase self-service, reduce procurement operations spend, and help enforce procurement policy compliance.

Purchase orders

Easily create POs from submitted and approved requisitions and send POs to suppliers using a variety of means (EDI, cXML, email, or fax) with Infor FSM. Quickly create orders to the right supplier, improve compliance, better control indirect spend, and order the right product from the right source at the right price.

Inventory

Streamline the flow of goods with capabilities flexible enough to support a variety of methods for managing inventory. Effectively manage inventoried and non-stock items, efficiently process inventory transactions, and monitor/ manage inventory throughout the whole organization—resulting in greater efficiency and the ability to drive hidden costs out of inventory processes.

Warehouse

Address all activities required inside warehouses and distribution centers with best-of-breed functionality that speeds up the flow of goods—from goods receipt to shipping. Infor FSM provides order picking, confirmation, tracking, and inquiry capabilities; real-time visibility into purchasing processes; and a range of other features designed to help production, inventory, and order processes run smoothly and efficiently.

Contract management

Reduce paperwork and create better contract audit trails with full visibility into contract spend and performance. Infor FSM provides cost modeling analysis, special item handling, and spend performance analysis capabilities, while also allowing users to effectively manage MFR/DIST/GPO contracts, tiered pricing, and rebates.

Strategic sourcing

Streamline RFP processes, promote better supplier relationships, and improve both visibility and transparency with Infor FSM’s strategic sourcing capabilities. Reverse auctions, a self-service portal for suppliers, electronic RFx, and a range of other fully integrated features enable full source-to-settle functionality.

Supplier portal

Promote stronger collaboration and communication with suppliers and reduce supplier management costs with Infor FSM. From supplier on-boarding and electronic RFx submissions to account maintenance/inquiry and purchase order management, Infor FSM provides greater visibility into supplier spend and an increased ability to facilitate supplier consolidation.

Third-party risk mitigation is very important to PPL. All new suppliers requesting to do business with PPL will be required to submit a request through the PPL online portal, where they will be evaluated based on the services and materials they will provide to PPL. A risk analysis will be performed, and the supplier will be categorized as high- or low-risk. High-risk suppliers will be required to prequalify through our supplier risk management portal with ISNetworld and will be invited via email by a PPL Category Manager. Suppliers cannot perform work for PPL without a risk evaluation, and high-risk suppliers cannot perform work without being prequalified in ISNetworld. Suppliers enrolling for the first time in ISNetworld will be required to pay an annual subscription fee. Additional information can be found at ISNetworld.

If after reviewing your invoices in the Supplier Portal, you still have questions, you may contact the Supplier Helpdesk at finsupplierhelpdesk@pplweb.com or call 610-774-6430 (800-257-8170) or 610-774-4209 (888-577-7891).

PPL uses an outside third party for many of its shipments. Suppliers can contact Ardmore Power Logistics (Ardmore) to arrange for carriers to pick up and deliver material. To route a shipment, please visit www.pplfreight.com or call Ardmore at 800-349-7514.