Highly Automated Supply Chain Management Tools

Amidst these unpredictable market conditions, which seem to be changing more rapidly than ever, it’s important for companies to be flexible. With automated supply chain management tools, companies have the flexibility to adapt in ways they never did before. With these new management services, like real time tracking and global visibility, companies can streamline their operations and reduce costs, while providing improved services to their customers.

The following represent a sampling of the options available to companies big and small.

Company: GXS
Product: GXS Managed Services   
Platform: GXS Trading Grid
Customers: 30,000+ in automotive, retail, consumer products, high tech, general manufacturing, financial services
What Sets it Apart: GXS has more than 40 years of experience helping companies connect and integrate their supply chains. GXS offers an extensive range of outsourced EDI and supply chain management solutions to help companies, both large and small, connect worldwide with buyers and suppliers to synchronize product and price information, optimize inventory control management and demand forecasts, and speed the overall performance of their global supply chains.
Comments: For enterprise companies and medium-sized businesses, GXS Managed Services provides the technical infrastructure to conduct a global B2B program, including hosted integration services, data translation, transaction visibility, systems administration, and robust reporting capabilities. In addition, GXS Managed Services provides the B2B expertise to deliver world-class B2B program management, trading community management, and customer support.
Website: www.gxs.com

Company: Logility
Product: Logility Voyager Solutions
Platform: Internet-based
Customers: 1,250 worldwide, including McCain Foods, Pernod Ricard, Sigma Aldrich, and VF Corporation.
What Sets it Apart: Logility Voyager Solutions is a complete supply chain management solution that features performance monitoring capabilities in a single Internet-based framework and provides supply chain visibility; demand, inventory, and replenishment planning; Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP); supply and global sourcing optimization; manufacturing planning and scheduling; transportation planning and management; and warehouse management.
Comments: Provides collaborative, best-of-breed supply chain solutions that help small, medium, large, and Fortune 1000 companies realize substantial bottom-line results in record time.
Website: www.logility.com

Company:  SmartTurn
Product:  SmartTurn Inventory and Warehouse Management System and SmartTurn Inventory Grid™
Platform: Web-based, on-demand, available 24/7
Customers: 3PLs, wholesale distribution, food service, healthcare, hospitality
What Sets it Apart: SmartTurn™ Inventory and Warehouse Management System and the SmartTurn Inventory Grid™ are the first true on-demand warehouse management systems to provide enterprise-class functionality for small-to-medium enterprises. Based on its WMS 2.0™ technology and similar to social networking sites, SmartTurn offers a global collaboration platform that can be delivered across geographic or corporate boundaries and enables companies to easily implement and integrate additional sites to gain enterprise-wide warehouse visibility and management without any added IT infrastructure or server hardware costs. Warehouses can instantly integrate the information flows within their own organizations and federated trading communities by simply adjusting security and permission configurations.
Comments:  While enabling them with up to 99 percent inventory accuracy, SmartTurn customers pay as little as $500 per month with unlimited users and transactions per warehouse site license.
Website: www.smartturn.com