Supply Chain EDI - iSC Overview

Corporate viability and economic success relies more and more on superior agility and collaboration capabilities. Companies are discovering that their market share is being won and lost on the supply chain front.  Phone calls, faxes and emails with suppliers are difficult to manage, waste time and can lead to major disruptions in your abilities to deliver product on time.  Companies that are able to control supply chain cost, satisfy customer demand and bring products to market faster than the competition will succeed.  Supplier collaboration can improve time-to-market performance, reduce inventories and shrink order fulfillment cycle times.  As demand, supply, and regulatory conditions continue to shift, companies require a flexible technology infrastructure that can be deployed quickly to meet these conditions. 

iSC is designed to support continuous process improvement for enterprises competing in these time-critical markets by providing a simple, yet powerful, supply chain visibility tool set.  iSC capitalizes on the information readily available in existing legacy applications and provides the necessary tools that will allow companies to make dramatic enhancements to it’s operational efficiency without spending a great deal of time and money on customizations.

Within iSC, several standard product features are available, such as an intuitive user navigation, online help and documentation, advanced job scheduling, flexible procurement processing, document archiving and retrieval, report automation, user definable interfaces and much more.

Lower Costs and Improve Supplier Visibility with Online Collaboration

Streamlining communications with your suppliers ensures better inventory visibility and more accurate shipments. iSC is Internet based, allowing for the rapid exchange of information between you and your supply base. Suppliers require only Internet access and a standard Web browser to become linked to your demand stream. iSC allows suppliers to display and download demand via the Web, including EDI, PDF, XML, and CSV file formats. If your suppliers are EDI capable, all transactions can be transmitted via EDI. While supporting standards and providing a robust feature set is important, the ability to administer a business application in an operationally efficient manner is critical to the long-term cost of ownership.

Simplified Order Fulfillment

Suppliers can enter Advance Shipment Notices (ASNs) online using the simple web forms that are preloaded with the buyer’s order information. Shipments can be maintained by the supplier right up to the moment the truck leaves the dock. Once the shipment is posted by the supplier, the information is immediately updated against the customer order and cannot be shipped against twice. When the buyer accepts the shipment, whole or partial, the shipping data can be exported to their application for further processing.  A supplier scorecard is updated after each receipt is posted and is available online.

Compliant Shipping Labels

Suppliers can print compliant shipping labels and documents over the Internet. All label formats for detail, master and mixed load containers are designed to insure an efficient receiving process of the inbound shipment.  With the optional scanning module the inbound shipment notification can be matched against the actual shipment providing immediate feedback of any shipping discrepancies.

iSC Document Journal

• Track all business documents that are exchanged
• Recall statistics of documents, dates, reference numbers and control numbers
• Archive and retrieval of received data, raw data, data that’s been sent, and reports and processing logs
• View document status by user defined formats, date, or document type
• Document status is available in a detailed or summarized report