The supplier list still needs babysitting. We imported from Excel, which worked, but there is no live link to our ERP. With more than 100 suppliers, new vendors show up in purchasing and dead ones linger in Catenis until someone notices. The status view is only as good as the list behind it. A nightly sync, even a simple vendor-number match, would cut that cleanup.

The other gap is the last mile to our customers. Catenis holds our evidence. It does not fill the questionnaire the OEM actually sent. I still copy certificates and answers into their portal. That is less painful than digging through mail, but it is still manual, and that is where we lose time the night before their deadline. An export mapped to the usual buyer fields - or a pack I can hand to the customer as-is - would close that.

A smaller one: a chunk of suppliers ignore the portal invite. The offline PDF is the workaround, so we run two tracks. Returns that come back as a scan instead of a filled form still need a person. I would rather have one reminder path that starts in the portal and falls back to PDF without me deciding per supplier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Before Catenis, this sat in email and one Excel sheet. Certificates as attachments. Expiry dates in a column that went stale. We are not in scope of the German Supply Chain Act ourselves, but our customers are, and they pass the questionnaires down. Behind us we have more than 100 suppliers. Every time a key account sent another form, someone started from the inboxes.

We struggled with rebuilding an evidence pack the night before a customer deadline, but now answers and files sit on the supplier record, so I pull what they asked for from one screen instead of searching mail. I did not time it with a stopwatch. It used to eat an evening. Now it is a short session, and I am not the bottleneck when purchasing at the customer follows up.

We struggled with not knowing who had replied and whose certificate was about to lapse, but now the status and deadline view shows the gaps, so follow-up goes to the red rows instead of a blanket mail to everyone. Fewer forgotten expiries. Fewer “please resend, the file is missing” loops.

Suppliers who will not open a portal still exist. The offline PDF keeps those returns in the same place as the rest, instead of a second folder that nobody updates. Risk ranking is the other change: we stop spending the same effort on a small packaging vendor as on a critical parts supplier.

The job Catenis actually does for us is not legal advice. It keeps the cascade from our customers and the evidence from our suppliers in one list we can work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Before Catenis, this sat in email and one Excel sheet. Certificates as attachments. Expiry dates in a column that went stale. We are not in scope of the German Supply Chain Act ourselves, but our customers are, and they pass the questionnaires down. Behind us we have more than 100 suppliers. Every time a key account sent another form, someone started from the inboxes.

We struggled with rebuilding an evidence pack the night before a customer deadline, but now answers and files sit on the supplier record, so I pull what they asked for from one screen instead of searching mail. I did not time it with a stopwatch. It used to eat an evening. Now it is a short session, and I am not the bottleneck when purchasing at the customer follows up.

We struggled with not knowing who had replied and whose certificate was about to lapse, but now the status and deadline view shows the gaps, so follow-up goes to the red rows instead of a blanket mail to everyone. Fewer forgotten expiries. Fewer “please resend, the file is missing” loops.

Suppliers who will not open a portal still exist. The offline PDF keeps those returns in the same place as the rest, instead of a second folder that nobody updates. Risk ranking is the other change: we stop spending the same effort on a small packaging vendor as on a critical parts supplier.

The job Catenis actually does for us is not legal advice. It keeps the cascade from our customers and the evidence from our suppliers in one list we can work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.