Integrating with your Supply Chain is critical in today’s competitive market. Lower production costs, reduced inventory investments, increased customer satisfaction, all directly result from improved supply chain communications.

Supply Chain Direct is an Internet-based service designed to give enterprises on-demand supply chain communication. It provides real-time visibility into activities across a multi-enterprise, multi-platform network to help you align your supply chain planning and execution processes. You select the Information that you want your customers and suppliers to see using an online information selection tool.

Supply Chain Direct captures data from any system at any point in the supply chain. The data is fully integrated and made available to you and your supply chain partners in a secure, web-based environment. Supply Chain Direct provides you with a dynamic view into the supply and demand of your enterprise, helping you to reduce supply chain management costs and increase customer satisfaction.

Supply Chain Direct is a very effective solution and has numerous benefits compared to generally available integration and execution software products in the market today.

Has superior technology and can retrieve data from any database or platform
Has none of the development and implementation difficulties
Provides immediate benefits and can be deployed in a short timeframe
Extremely Cost effective and costs a fraction compared to other supply chain projects
Provides a high level of Security and confidentiality for your critical information
There is no requirement to open your corporate firewalls
There is no exposure to Denial of Service attacks
Does not require continuous maintenance and upgrades for new and evolving technologies to work
Does not require many levels of Information Technology resources
Does not require heavy custom development effort as needed in other Supply Chain integration and communication projects
Suitable for Large, Medium as well as Small Enterprises.

Supply Chain Direct is a modular solution consisting of three unique modular applications:
Supplier Direct - will provide the information you and your suppliers need to exchange for efficient operations.
Customer Direct - provides the information needed by your customers and unique information important to each particular customer - plus direct Web links to logistics tracking information.
Internal Direct - can be used to supply information to your internal people and other partners.
Each module is tailored to provide specific information needed by your suppliers and customers.

How Supply Chain Direct Works:

There are only three steps involved in using Supply Chain Direct:
1. Select the information using Selection Tool.
2. Extract the information using the DATA MAP to build a one-time extraction process of the internal data.
3. Transmit the information using the DATA LOADER on any PC to automatically transmit the data to the Supply Chain Direct data reception and integration site.

That's all! The automated Supply Chain Direct processes will handle everything from then on. Supply Chain Direct will immediately provide current supply chain information through a customized, secure web space for your customers, you and your suppliers to view at any time. Extract and Transmit of data can be done at any desired frequency and intervals.

The Database Integration Tools will accept information from the Data Loader in any of the following common data formats: ASCII delimited, XML, SOAP, ODBC, JDB

Supply Chain Direct services are based on leading-edge technologies that support the revolution that the Internet has enabled. Supply Chain Direct is a complete information reporting service with a complete ASP Hosting environment to fully automate the process of supply chain communication.

SUMMARY:

Supply Chain Direct is the most effective supply chain communication solution available today. It is built on proven technology that is currently being used by companies such as IBM® and Hewlett Packard® for communicating information with their suppliers and customers.

The suite of rapid implementation and configuration tools allows achieving the benefits of increased efficiency through better communications with your customers and suppliers. Tailored to your specific needs, at a fraction of the cost and a fraction of the time needed by more complex solutions requiring significant investment, changes to your IT environment, technology, business processes and procedures.

The ASP Hosting technology allows you to provide this information to your supply chain partners with no exposure to internet security issues, no possibilities of Denial or service attacks and no potential exposure of your confidential information.

We can have a Supply Chain Communication service up and running within 30 days.