The Siemens Digital Industries Software supplier collaboration solution provides a platform for bidirectional communication and real-time status visibility between OEMs, partners, and suppliers, starting with product definition and continuing through design engineering, manufacturing and support. Siemens delivers a complete process-driven, end-to-end supplier management solution. The basis of their solution relies on the precepts of a model-based approach to share data, not documents, and digital twin models linked through a digital thread.