Lowering costs while improving competitiveness are obviously desirable objectives for every company, but electronic supply chain communication is no longer merely the preferred way of doing business.

The on-ramp for optimizing supply chain communication is clogged with large businesses insisting on electronic orders, shipping documents and invoices, while second-tier and third-tier suppliers are trying to comply with B2B ecommerce initiatives.

Fortunately, Inovis has an optimization solution.

Our Optimization module affords unique benefits to:

• Synchronize item information to ensure data accuracy across your trading partner network, with 550 product attributes validated with 5000+ suppliers
• Improve supply chain processes for merchandise planning, purchasing, inventory management and logistics
• Automate item setup for maintenance and promotional price management-with 115 million unique product trade items

A flexible, secure, compliance-ready Communications module provides:

• A modern Tier 4 data center with automated fail-over capabilities
• 300,000 trading relationships managed
• Support for over 47 protocols and standards (point-to-point, AS2, AS3, VAN, EDI, etc.)
• PGP, VPN support, DES-certified security for non-repudiation, access control and authentication