Supply Chain Visibility

While supply chain visibility is a requirement for any company competing in today's global marketplace, it is not something most organizations have. Effective visibility needs to support your business requirements and the changes in your business. Visibility is more than just documents; it is about understanding the business process, the exceptions and the impact on your business or your customer relationship. Competing effectively requires a more detailed view into your operations, fulfillment and order-to-cash lifecycle.

Visibility into key business processes is critical. For many organizations it is not always so easy to obtain answers simple questions like "Where's my order?" or "What is the Status of a Shipment"….particularly when process execution crosses the organizational firewall. Answering these questions is becoming increasingly difficult thanks in part to many supply chains sourcing in Asia, the emergence of global distribution of products and markets, and more intricate methods like cross docking and JIT (Just-in-time) inventory. And as if that weren't enough, different trading partners with different needs and capabilities add another layer to an already intricate business process.

Visibility is the ultimate capability needed for effective trading partner management and improves transactions between buyers and sellers by monitoring electronic orders, ship notifications, invoices, and other business documents against business rules and compliance guides. A solution like Inovis Actionable Intelligence helps businesses to identify and solve issues quickly and create projects to fix those issues. As a result, companies are rewarded with better data quality, which means lower out-of-stock rates, less frequent and severe supply chain disructions, and more time to manage the rest of your business.

By gaining visibility to supply chain problems as they happen, rather than months later, teams can avoid supply-chain disruptions and improve financial cycles. And as your supply chain continues to expand, supply chain visibility provides you with the knowledge you need to take action and solve those problems even when they exist outside of your four walls and outside of your control.

Features:

• Role and organization specific views for internal business users, technical teams and trading partners
• Easily configured business rule support
• Self-service tools for search on important orders and shipments

Benefits:

• Enable business users to quickly understand status of critical processes
• Improve your business process execution
• Manage by exception