Supply Chain Management Software (SCM)
3EX.NET Supply Chain Management software reduces overbuys and back orders through an integrated approach to product sourcing and stock control.
Effective Supply Chain Management can generate significant operational cost savings and enhanced customer service delivery, as well as providing visibility and accountability within the businesss. 3EX.NET helps you integrate your supply chain with the other functions of your business.
The Case for Supply Chain in Mail Order and eCommerce
In fast moving retail environments there is a fine margin between success and failure and the key to profitable trading is the efficiency with which products can be brought to the marketplace. Therefore it is clear that the most important factor in the life cycle of a product is the budget and time frame within which it is manufactured and landed in the warehouse ready for shipping. The discipline of supply chain management coupled with 3EX.NET software have been developed and refined to make this cycle more efficient and cost effective. What many people evaluating software don't always understand is that there are many vertical markets and approaches to supply chain. Therefore, you need to consider a product that is built for your business. 3EX.NET has been built for high volume mail order, multi channel and ecommerce retailers. As such, our solutions do not specifically support functionality for the proliferation of other industries such as leisure, construction, groceries etc
Big Benefits
Even small variances in stockholdings can have huge repercussions in your supply chain. Caught with a shortage and you have expedite charges, unplanned delivery charges and, most important of all, unhappy customers. Purchase too much stock and you increase costs and risk write-downs for depreciating, obsolete or out-of-life goods. A view of your inventory across all sales channels ensures that your goods are where they're needed, when they're needed, waiting for rapid dispatch and delighting your customers.
Connect Processes and Create Opportunity
Your distribution network extends from your supplier's warehouse to your customer's front door, beyond the confines of your own operation. Remove a step or simplify a process, and you can get product to your customer quicker. When dealing with many suppliers worldwide, third-party logistics providers, multiple distribution points and demanding customers, creating visibility within the distribution process is extremely challenging. Furthermore, in a multi-channel retailing environment, the marketing department is the creative hub of the organisation, devising and communicating incentives to maximise sales, feeding these back along the corporate chain to ensure that demand can be met with supply. Unfortunately, this process continuity is missing in many businesses. The 3EX.NET Supply Chain Management software has been developed to bridge that gap and includes the following functions:
- Forecasting - 3EX.NET Supply Chain software accurately predicts future demand and prompts intelligent and timely purchase decisions.
- Merchandising - manage the product development process and rich content for publishing and deployment
- Supplier Management - 3EX.NET controls all supplier information and interactions to ensure timely delivery of goods against service level.
- Purchasing - 3EX.NET enables intelligent purchasing decisions and controlled processing of purchase transactions through requisition, order, quality assurance, receipting and invoice reconciliation.
- Campaign Planning - 3EX.NET enables mail order retailers to plan, manage and track the response on all promotional activity.
Inventory Planning tool – used to project stock movements and make automate stock purchase decisions.
Supplier Account Agreements – used to control contracts, creditors and purchase decisions
Product Purchase Enquiry – used to track product purchase and supplier history
Ask our clients....
Kettler (GB) Managing Director, Paul Bevington comments:
"If knowing exactly what we wanted counts as demanding, then we are very demanding It would have made no sense to invest in an IT solution that you then had to fit your business around. IT needs to support your business."
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