E-Business

Supply Chain Management

Supply chain management (SCM) is about optimizing business processes and business value in every corner of the extended enterprise -- from your supplier’s supplier to your customer’s customer. SCM uses e-business concepts and Web technologies to manage beyond the organization -- upstream and downstream. Manufacturers and vendors can share sales forecasts, manage inventories, schedule labor, optimize deliveries, and improve productivity. Some of the processes included within SCM are:

Procurement
Inventory Management
Forecasting
Warehousing
Logistics

How does SCM become e-business enabled?

Companies with a network of suppliers, vendors, and distributors need a fast, efficient way to disseminate information and enable two-way communications. This is done over the Web using:

customized extranet sites
Web servers
groupware (e-mail-integrated collaborative software)

You can start Web-enabling legacy systems to provide visibility to selected partners, suppliers, and customers and to integrate the supply chain into your company’s other processes

By using e-business based SCM solutions, companies can:

Lower operating costs through reduced inventory requirements
Improve customer satisfaction by maintaining adequate stock. This will keep your offerings fresh and attuned to marketplace trends and changes.
Improve productivity through better data integrity, fewer order entry errors, less rework, and faster communications.

The bottom line is an improved competitive position. Call us we can help!

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