OverviewOverview
We can rapidly and cost-effectively deliver private collaboration hubs that allow you to achieve cost savings by dramatically reducing inventory levels, lowering administrative costs and shortening cycle times. Real-time contract fulfillment and demand visibility data can now become integrated for both buyers and suppliers.
Our unique managed-services model includes more than cutting edge supply chain software - it encompasses the connecting, training and support of suppliers, as well as operating the hub on an ongoing basis to allow our customers to focus on extracting real benefits.
Our hosted supplier hubs amplify the value of your existing ERP systems, leveraging that investment by facilitating a level of true external collaboration that these internal systems were simply not designed for.
We will integrate with any existing ERP system to read and write data in a secure and efficient manner. This data can then be shared with authorized parties to speed decision-making and delegate responsibility.
How it Works
We provide an integration interface into a client's ERP system to extract order, planning, logistics, inventory, or billing data. This can then be shared between the client and their supply chain partners. This approach means that the client can continue to use their existing systems, with no training required.
Our connectivity technology securely routes client data and makes it accessible via a web browser to specified supply chain partners, with no need for integration.
For automation of transactions, we also provide capability to integrate into relevant supply chain partners' systems: via EDI or direct ERP connections. The hub supports almost any data format or standard, including XML, CIDX, EDI and flat files.
Order management, inventory and demand visibility applications provide web-based tools to review information and receive exception alerts.
Our systems are fully RFID enabled and can provide full data layer visibility of inventory tracked using RFID technologies.
Possible application areas include:
Supply Chain Automation
Any document can be automated, such as order placement, acknowledgements, advanced shipping notifications, certificates of analysis, receipts and invoicing.Supplier Relationship Management
Authorized users can be given access to information to aid planning and decision making as well as improving communication through immediate system to system data exchange, backed by digital time stamping and a full audit trail.Vendor Managed Inventory
By providing inventory, forecast and usage information, suppliers can be confident in taking responsibility for managing supply and inventory, often with the added advantage of reducing overall inventory levels.RFID Inventory Tracking
Our applications are fully RFID compliant and can offer complete RFID solutions, including event management and sharing of RFID-based inventory data with supply chain partners.
Key Features
Our unique, managed collaboration hub requires little upfront investment, yet quickly starts delivering high performance in real time in areas such as:
Contract Fulfillment/Order Management
Eliminate the soft costs, delays and errors associated with manually generating, sending, receiving, and acknowledging orders. Our solution automates this entire process, cutting your administration costs and saving you hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in overheads, while making your supply chain more efficient.Our applications for private collaboration hubs have architecture built on the premise that your supply chain extends way beyond your own enterprise, and much of the inefficiency and cost that you carry is a direct result of poor, late, or non-existent communication with your suppliers.
Whatever internal and enterprise systems you and your supply chain partners use for your business processes, we simply take the information you choose to provide, in the format you choose, and deliver it to the people you choose, in real-time and in the format they require.
Inventory Management
Even when suppliers carry the cost of consigned stock, inefficiencies that result from poor communication affect everyone in the supply chain, which means you pay the price. Our solution can cut your financing costs by millions of dollars per year, by halving your inventory and cutting your working capital through better and faster information exchange. Your return on investment is guaranteed to be positive.
Planning and Forecasting
A major factor behind missed product deadlines is that suppliers are not given enough warning about changes to production schedules. Using our private collaboration hub, suppliers will know about your production plans and forecasts the minute you do. Fewer mistakes and last-minute changes are made and goods are delivered on time to the correct location.
Visibility
Current inventory levels tend to be bloated as a result of poor visibility into demand flowing through your supply chain. By making upcoming demand transparent to your suppliers, you let them help you to lower all of your costs and run a far more efficient supply chain.Once your suppliers see what's in your inventory and what your short term and long term requirements will be for their products, they can better run their own operations, buying smarter, holding less inventory, doing less last-minute (expensive) transportation and cutting their production set-ups. You win and they win as you collaborate more closely to build a smart, 21st century supply chain. Supply Chain Connect is there to underpin it for you.