Cross-company project planning for suppliers, partners, and joint ventures
cplace Cross-Company Planning (CCP) is collaborative project management software for interlinked supply chains. Planning and synchronization modules connect suppliers, partners, and joint ventures with secure data exchange and real-time status feedback. Each company retains control of its own systems and data.
Trusted by global leaders
Cross-company programs move fast. Manual plan exchange can’t keep up
Master schedules sit inside the firewall. Supplier schedules sit outside it. Reconciliation is a mandatory Monday-morning ritual.
Each supplier provides status updates in varying formats and frequencies. Most of the information arrives via email and is manually transferred into a shared spreadsheet.
A tier-2 delay reaches the OEM weeks late, because the tier-1 had no visible link to the master plan. By the time it surfaces, recovery starts too late.”
Sharing the correct data slice with the right partner relies on manual exports, redacted exports, and the hope that no sensitive information slips through.
The audit trail for what was shared with which supplier, and when, lives in email threads and spreadsheet macros. When compliance asks, reconstruction takes days.
Procurement, program management, and engineering each hold a piece of the supplier picture. None of them has the full picture.
Put every party on one master plan
cplace brings every team and
partner onto one live timeline
partner onto one live timeline
Selective visibility gives every partner exactly the slice they should see, and the work that crosses the company line stays connected end to end. And because cplace integrates with the systems you already run, each company keeps its own tools, its own data, and control over what gets shared. Compliance is built into the plan, not bolted on after.
cplace supplier collaboration keeps delivery on track
Every plan in one view
See your master schedules, supplier plans, and partner milestones on one connected timeline, instead of stitching them together by hand every Monday.
Surface upstream delays
Spot a shift two tiers away long before it reaches your critical path, instead of learning about it in a status call when recovery is already off the table.
Selective sharing, no exports
Give every partner exactly the slice they need to see, with clear boundaries around what stays inside your organization.
Procurement on the project, not next to it
Bring your sourcing decisions, supplier program management, and program plans into one data model, so they finally move as one.
Audit-ready by default
Every shared object carries its own access record, so you’re compliant and ready for any audit.
No IT backlog
Shape your own supplier views and workflows with No-Code and Low-Code. No tickets, no waiting.
15% better
resource utilization
10% fewer
budget overruns
25% less
time spent on reporting and approvals
Connects with your enterprise ecosystem
How cross-company project
planning works in cplace
Selective sharing across company lines
The CCX interface lets each company keep its own cplace instance and its own data and share only the slice a given partner is meant to see.
Joint scheduling, not parallel scheduling
Supplier milestones, partner deliverables, and the master plan share one connected timeline. A shift on one side shows up on the other in real time.
Adapts without waiting on IT
Procurement and program teams shape their own supplier views, workflows, and data slices with No-Code and Low-Code.
AI-driven schedule surveillance
Early warning across supplier and partner plans
Built into the platform that program teams and procurement already use. cplace scans the connected schedule continuously, surfaces anomalies in supplier and partner plans before they cascade into the master timeline and drafts the change report for the next program review.
- Cross-company shifts surfaced in real time
- Anomalies caught before they hit the critical path
- Change reports drafted automatically
Built for the people who plan across companies on cplace
- R&D and program planners: Own the schedule that runs across your suppliers, partners, and joint ventures, and keep every dependency on one timeline instead of a dozen exports.
- Program directors at OEMs and engineering primes: Roll tier-1, tier-2, and tier-3 plans into one connected schedule: multi-tier supplier collaboration on a single timeline, updated the moment a date moves.
- Demanding industries: In automotive, aerospace, pharma, life sciences, and energy, a supplier delay is a program delay. Here, you see it coming before it lands.
Modular building blocks power cplace cross-company
project planning
Every cplace solution is built from modular building blocks: ready-made apps and templates that snap together and can be tailored without code. The cplace supplier collaboration solution and cross-company project planning capabilities are powered by the following building blocks:
Cross-Company Planning
The foundation for joint plans across companies, with selective sharing
Cross-Company Planning Connector (CCX)
The technical interface for sharing data across separate cplace systems
Supply Chain Management
Multi-tier supplier visibility into project and program work
Vendor Management
Vendor onboarding, programs, and performance on the project
Digital Product Passport
A solution for product passport and traceability compliance, including the EU DPP
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions about managing schedules across supplier, partner, and program boundaries.
Procurement tools handle catalogs, purchase orders, and supplier onboarding. cplace is the supplier collaboration platform above them: a project and program layer that runs jointly with suppliers, partners, and joint ventures. It covers schedules, milestones, dependencies, and program governance across company lines. The two work side by side; cplace is the planning layer, not the sourcing system.
Cross-company project planning is project and program work that spans more than one organization: an OEM and its suppliers, a prime and its subcontractors, a sponsor and a contract manufacturer. It’s structured cross-company collaboration on shared plans and milestones, and cplace makes that work visible on one timeline while each party keeps its own system and its own data.
The Cross-Company Planning Connector (CCX) shares only the slice of the plan that a given partner is meant to see. Each shared object carries its own access record, so what was shared with whom, and when, is traceable.
Yes. Tier-1 plans, tier-2 plans, and beyond all connect into one master schedule, so a delay two tiers down becomes visible at the OEM before it hits the critical path.
Yes. cplace is a B2B cross-company collaboration platform built for large manufacturing programs. As a supplier collaboration platform, it connects OEMs, primes, and their partners on one live schedule while each party keeps its own system and its own data.
Yes. Selective sharing, access records, and traceable change history keep cross-company work defensible in industries like automotive, aerospace, pharma, life sciences, and energy. US manufacturers selling into the EU carry cross-border compliance obligations too, and cplace keeps the supplier data exchange behind them traceable, from audit requests to the EU Digital Product Passport.