There’s a problem with one of your suppliers and their key person is not, as you had hoped, at his desk but in a hotel in Zurich. Once that would have been a disaster. Now it has no impact at all.
Thanks to IBS Web Supply Manager, the supplier can access your business information anywhere he can get an internet connection. He can check from his hotel room in Zurich, via an airport wireless network, with his smart phone and a 3G connection as he races across the city in the back of taxi.
You may already be using EDI (electronic data interchange) technology to communicate with suppliers but Web Supply Manager has some distinct advantages:
- It allows you to communicate with suppliers who haven’t invested in EDI.
- It uses standard EDI interfaces between IBS Enterprise 6.0 and the internet, so any information from your system can be displayed on the web.
- It is a lower cost option for suppliers: it may allow you to work with new suppliers; it may result the lower prices when you are quoted.
- It operates around the clock and around the world.
Of course, you don’t want to share your business information with everyone, so Web Supply Manager includes the highest levels of security.
Delivery schedule management
Web Supply Manager allows you to work more closely with your suppliers by sharing information:
- Publish schedules and forecasts.
- Allow suppliers to view historical delivery data for their own planning.
- Automatically email suppliers to alert them to new schedules.
- Net forecast calculations (See supplier delivery schedule)
- Delivery status.
It can also be used in SMI (Supplier Managed Inventory) systems to supply sales forecasts and inventory levels.
Your suppliers can use web-supply Manager to print all purchase related document, print delivery labels or even import the information into his own business system utilizing XML format.
Web Supply Manager is a robust technology integrated using EDI with our Enterprise 6.0 suite and built on standard web components:
- Windows Server
- SQL Server
- XML