Workflow collaboration
Internet allows companies to further strengthen cooperation between each other by coordination, integration, and even pass automatic control of key processes. Workflow coordination includes activities such as procurement, order execution, engineering changes, optimization design, and financial transactions. The result is to form a more efficient cost, faster speed, more reliable and less wrong supply chain operation. Below, we provide a lot of cases that are related to how different companies have become a workflow adjustment activity in these or other fields.
purchase
A typical manufacturing company needs to purchase thousands of products from a wide range of manufacturers. Internet helps them manage complex procurement processes. Numerous companies include Ariba and CommerceOne provide web-based enterprise procurement solutions that allow the purchaser to stay in real time on the Internet and traders. At the same time, they achieve automatic operation of the internal procurement process from the need to the next order.
These solutions reduce operational cost by automatically controlling the entire supply chain of indirect goods and services, which reduces operational costs and improves operational efficiency. In fact, most market transactions, Covisint, an aerospace industry, such as the automatic industry, and E2Open, TRANSARE, and E2Open, and the food industry, for their supply chain, providing electronic procurement solutions.
Enterprises are also increasingly relying on scientific replenishment software to achieve decision making of time and quantity during procurement. For example, a Longs pharmacy is a drug retail chain, which uses uninterrupted solutions, which effectively manage orders and replenishment processes in their distribution centers and stores. This makes the company's inventory turnover is significantly lower than competitive enterprises in the same corporate strength. Longs's supply chain was awarded the title of "high efficiency drug demand chain".
Order processing and capital flow
Slowly, a Silicon Truck startup creates Internet-based services that help operators in the food service industry (such as restaurants), distributors, manufacturers more convenient to handle orders, adjust rebate discounts, and other financial transactions . Its task is to develop easy-to-use services, which can reduce costs and provide valuable information for all members in the food service supply chain. Solution On the web, with a secure, friendly user program replaced the traditional time-consuming, easy to buy the wrong purchase system. In addition, the Web site has played the function of the information center, which is closely linked to the purchaser and suppliers in the food service market.
New product procurement coordination
The resources required for new products can become the main obstacle to the new product favorable to launch the timing. With Internet, companies can handle complex procurement tasks in a few hours, such as part list management, quotation, decision development, classification, order change, order determination. The Internet also allows companies to approach a larger supply base to ensure reliable supply and backup resources. Supplier selection, order quotation, and acceptance of purchase decisions, and enterprise resource planning system integrated timeliness are especially important in new product launch, especially valuable.
SoleCtron, a leading contract manufacturer and unprecedented American Marcm Blairkin National Quality Award, which uses Digital Buyer (Based on the Internet-based purchase software application, provided by Digital Market, is part of the Agile software) It is possible to achieve a number of supplier prices and effective quotations at the same time. In its airline in it and the Digital Buyer, six-second suppliers can respond to 55 people who need quotes within a short four-hour. Within two days, the company received a total of 156 quotes and has great improvements in the traditional approach.
The last major advantage is to greatly reduce the cycle of new products that support SoleCtron's new product launch process.
Engineering and product changes
