FMG Vendor Portal is the FINCANTIERI Group Companies e-procurement System created to support procurement activities between the Company and its Suppliers.

The system provides a great opportunity for the suppliers to introduce their activities to the FINCANTIERI Group Companies. A totally free-of-charge instrument for your company's internal organization to achieve new levels of productivity and profitability - and to leave behind outdated processes and systems that may be soon holding back your company's growth. FMG Vendor Portal connects the FINCANTIERI Group Companies and their suppliers in a secure yet open environment.

Here's how to subscribe your company to the system FMG Vendor Portal. Your company benefits from a streamlined interface for transacting with the FINCANTIERI Group Companies. A subscribed supplier access to the complete FMG Vendor Portal toolset - powerful, user-friendly e-procurement and communication resources that should be also seamlessly integrated into existing accounting, procurement and ERP systems. FMG Vendor Portal assists your company by providing a standardized online platform for business development, a secure environment for collaboration, and a more efficient communication channel among buyers, technical experts and suppliers. To become a FMG Vendor Portal subscribed supplier, simply select the FINCANTIERI Group Company you want register your company and follow the instructions in the Registration section.

FMG Vendor Portal aims at achieving a true win-win relationship between the FINCANTIERI Group Companies and Supplier Companies. Our solutions allow you to concentrate on the activities that matter most: your relationships with your trading partners and your success.

Both Buyer and Supplier will benefit from making transactions and communication easier, faster and more cost-efficient.

When joining the FMG Vendor Portal System, your company will gain the following main benefits:

  • Cost reduction: streamlined and simplified processes. Reduced business cycle timing. Improvement in effectiveness and efficiency of your Company.
  • Simpler and Clearer communication: FMG Vendor Portal standardises and streamlines communication among Suppliers and the FINCANTIERI Group Companies, in particular with Buyers or Technical Departments experts. Forms, questionnaires and correspondence on paper are often burdensome. The System ensures clearer communication and increased efficiency and effectiveness for your company.
  • Global Reach: the international position of the FINCANTIERI Group Companies enables FMG Vendor Portal subscribed supplier across the world to work better. As soon as you connect to FMG Vendor Portal, time constraints, language differences, or cultural barriers will no longer limit transactions and communication. FMG Vendor Portal global reach will connect your Company to the right Buyers, making business flow more efficient and reducing costs along the way.

According to the objective set by the FINCANTIERI Group Companies of improving the relationships with Suppliers, FMG Vendor Portal features are developed in order to manage the following processes:

  1. Marketing
  2. Request For Quotation Management
  3. Purchase Order

1. Marketing: the request of registration, free of charge and open to all Suppliers, is a powerful way to increase your Company's visibility towards the FINCANTIERI Group Companies. In fact, all data collected through the Registration Form will be stored in a specific database available to the buyers of the FINCANTIERI Group Companies.

2. Request for Quotation management: becoming a subscribed supplier your company will be able to participate in the Request for Quotation submitted by a FINCANTIERI Group Company to the suppliers through the System. Your company will reply simply by publishing your best offer. Security and confidentiality are guaranteed.

3. Purchase Order: as a subscribed supplier you will be able to get purchasing orders and documentation through FMG Vendor Portal.

The technical requirements of the FMG Vendor Portal System are quite simple: you need to be connected to Internet and to install an updated version of a web browser.

The website fmg-suppliers.com uses the 128 bit SSL (Secure Socket Layer protocol in order to guarantee the needed confidentiality to all data being transmitted. This protocol is widely used for banking and commercial operations (i.e. Internet Banking and Internet Trading). All information on this system is gathered in compliance to all applicable laws.

FMG Vendor Portal system aims to welcome both potential and consolidated marine and naval suppliers, that are:

  • willing to offer their products and services;
  • prepared to use this modern Internet tool, in order to be constantly connected with the FINCANTIERI Group Companies.

Three steps are required to actively transact through the FMG Vendor Portal system.

First step: on-line registration application is needed to provide some initial information about your Company. Registration detailed procedures are explained in the Registration section of this website.

Second Step: registration to FMG Vendor Portal is not automatic. It is a process carried out under the responsibility of the FINCANTIERI Group Company and, for the safety of all parties, is constrained by:

  • the validation by the FINCANTIERI Group Company of the data reported in the registration form,
  • the acceptance by the FINCANTIERI Group Company of the hard copy of the Agreement for the use of the FMG Vendor Portal System signed by the Supplier.

Third step: in order to carry out the registration the FINCANTIERI Group Company sends by email to Supplier the username and the password. The Supplier may begin to be active within the FMG Vendor Portal System by modifying his password.