Retail Industry
Successful suppliers to the retail
marketplace must strategically manage their
supply chain communications in order to
remain profitable while satisfying customer
and industry mandates. Today's retail
Electric Commence environment requires
mastery of: legacy systems and standards
(traditional EDI, VAN connectivity); today's
standards (ebXML, AS2); and tomorrow's
emerging technologies (AS3 and beyond).
Systrends experience in all aspects of
cross-industry Electronic Commerce provides
fully-integrated EC solutions to manage the
flow of the information critical to a retail
supplier and to its customers.
Systrends EC solutions for retail suppliers
include our
Transaction Transporter™
transport software - certified as software
"eBusinessReady"
for the retail industry by the Drummond
Group and GS1 - and our hosted
ECtrends
Performance Management Suite.™
And Systrends has recently been approved as
a third-party vendor for
Wal-Mart supplier EDI.
In today's competitive retail marketplace,
retail suppliers must accurately measure and
analyze supply chain processes to understand
today's operations and to enhance tomorrow's
performance. Successful performance
management requires accurate information
from every participant/stakeholder in the
supply chain enterprise. The right
performance management tools should help
track trends and identify problems—so that
inefficiencies can be corrected and
strategic steps can be taken to prevent
future problems. Accurate performance
management can provide the competitive edge
to increase market share.
Performance management should help an
organization to:
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Determine and measure key performance
indicators to make sure organizational objectives
are reached. |
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Track trends, make informed decisions,
and take strategic action to maximize
the performance of your supply chain and
to enhance its productivity. |
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Uncover and analyze operational
exceptions before these events become
serious operational problems. |
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Reduce the time and cost of collecting,
managing, and communicating supply chain
data. |
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Transform supply chain data into
useful and valuable management
information. |
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Reach company objectives by directing
efforts to critical-path events and
areas. |
Systrends performance management solution,
ECtrends Performance Management Suite, can
help an organization achieve:
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An enterprise-wide information system to
support business decisions. |
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Performance improvement for functional
business processes. |
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Accountability for all organizational levels. |
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Cost reductions by viewing the source of
functional business process events. |
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An information system, in a
user-friendly scorecard environment,
that enables supply chair
participants/stakeholders to review and
improve performance. |
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