Web-Based B2B Supply Chain
Applications and Custom Integration Services
We provide hosted applications, which can be customized
and enhanced to meet your unique requirements or you can
install them locally.
We cover the following core supply chain processes:
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Communicate Product and Process Definition
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Order Acquisition and Scheduling
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Acquire and Track Materials
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Value Add Conversion Process
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Order Fulfillment and Distribution
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Provide Business and Operation Support
These Web-Based applications can be offered as a
service. You can connect your trading partners
(I.e. suppliers and customers) and collaborate using shared
and private logistics master data. You determine who has
access to your data while insuring those who need
information will not have to redundantly maintain copies
that may not be accurate or up-to-date.
If you need to set-up a production or warehouse
operation, it can be done in as little as three weeks. Our
consultants will help you select the processes and
applications needed to run a lean operation.
Our two week operation assessment will define the
processes that are critical to making your business run
smoothly and identify the application functions you need to
start or automate existing operations.
After the two week
assessment we can configure your web-based Warehouse
Management System, Material Requirement Planning System and
the Supply Chain Management Applications needed to connect
you with your trading partners.
We will also train your
team on how to use those applications or operate them for
you so you can focus on the value added activities you do
best.
All we ask is for you to agree to a two week
assessment by experienced supply chain professionals for
$24,000. The results of this assessment will give you a
complete business process roadmap that you could implement
yourself, send out for quotations or just ask us to get it
done for you.
Helping companies improve business processes and solve
business integration problems is what we do. How we do it
depends on the clients situation and the available
resources.
We look for businesses that find it difficult to be
competitive because their business processes are slow,
require too much resource or depend on manual processes
using various independent applications. We look for
problems such as the following:
- Errors are occurring because users do not see the
latest data in real-time, and base their information on
old or faulty information.
- There are delays in making decisions internally, such
as approving a customer request for quotation (RFQ),
because each step in the approval process uses a different
application or there exists bottlenecks.
- There are complaints about the lack of responsiveness,
which is the result of the time it takes to retrieve
information from multiple applications or organizations.
- Data is not synchronized and is maintained in multiple
places or it is synchronized using complex technologies
running in batches late at night requiring people to wait
for the next day to complete a task.
- Users are frustrated having to input the same data
into multiple applications resulting in lost time and
input errors.
Addressing these types of problems requires finding ways
to eliminate activities, coordinate the exchange of
information and integrate different applications and people
based on their role in a particular business process.
Characteristics of a successful business integration
solution includes the following:
- Adaptable, so that as the solutions in the
organization change, one solution can be substituted for
another without a complete 'rewiring' of the connections
between the applications involved.
- Scaleable to grow to meet the organization's needs as
it grows without re-engineering.
- Robust with transaction and rollback support built
into the solution.
- Connections to different applications so information
can be shared.
- Combined processes, information, and functions to
achieve customer defined business goals.
- Relevant real-time and near real-time data
synchronization that is available on-demand.
- Dynamic support for mergers and acquisitions by
connecting, consolidating, or integrating different
application systems.
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