Key Features
Supply Chain Connect enables you to cost-effectively collaborate with your suppliers and customers to dramatically reduce inventory levels, increase inventory turns and strip out administrative costs.
Our Supply Chain Management Hub takes the information that already exists within your organization and makes it available to your suppliers in real-time.
By using our application, suppliers can process incoming purchase orders and change orders, send acknowledgements, advance ship notices, and invoices, adjust delivery dates, and update item availability.
Supported with Supply Chain Connect's professional customer support representatives, your suppliers will be able handle just about any transaction with ease and efficiency. Even better, they can do all this securely over the Web through their Internet connection, a smart choice for buying.
Quick Implementation & Solid Processes
Supply Chain Connect can be deployed for suppliers within days, with absolutely no disruption to existing business processes. Typically, a supplier will require less than two hours of training, as the solution is web-based and highly intuitive.
The implementation process includes meeting with Supply Chain Connect's Supplier Adoption Team to go through the step-by-step guide to coming on board, which includes the following process:
- E-commerce general letter describing your company's objectives
- Overview session reviewing the business case and the solution
- Overview presentation viewed via the web
- Order/Enrollment Form e-mailed to supplier
- Supplier Order/Enrolment Form completed and faxed back
- Web-based Training
- User Training Manual received
- Testing of specific deployment
- Activation of Supply Chain Connect solution
Our supplier order management application enables you to meet the challenges you face:
| Challenge | Supply Chain Connect Capability |
|---|---|
| Lack of visibility of orders, schedules and shipments | Shares supply information in real-time throughout the extended supply chain |
| Frequent stock outs or expedited orders | Manages multiple types of demand including forecasts, call offs against open orders, and discrete orders |
| Poor supplier performance | Control points to reduce supply chain exceptions, such as demand/supply mismatches, late shipments and non-compliance to process terms and conditions |
| Labor-intensive purchasing processes | End-to-end order management workflows, including purchase orders, blanket POs, advance ship notices (ASNs), receipts and invoices |
| Different procurement and demand forecasting process across the organization | Configurable business rules for diverse procurement processes across the entire supply base |
