Collaborative Inventory Management (i-Supply)

i-Supply helps buyers and suppliers optimize inventory levels across multiple tiers of the supply chain, eliminate manufacturing disruptions, and be more responsive to end-customer demand.

Buyers

i-Supply provides real-time visibility into inventory status to minimize supply chain risk and disruptions:

  • Reduce production downtime caused by inventory stock outs
  • Eliminate excess inventory and reduce carrying costs with Lean order planning
  • Reduce administrative costs across the supply chain
  • Communicate business needs accurately and in real time
  • Improve predictability through continuous visibility into order status and shipping schedules
  • Evaluate supplier effectiveness at maintaining inventory levels
  • Reduce emergency shipments and premium freight charges
i-Supply reduces the risk of depleted inventory levels, expedited freight scenarios, and production downtime.

Suppliers

i-Supply enables suppliers to support a variety of inventory replenishment models with their customers, including both pull-based models (Kanban and min-max inventory management) and traditional push-based models. i-Supply allows suppliers to ship the right amount of items at the right time, and make fewer expedited and emergency shipments.

  • Improve predictability of delivery
  • Reduce unplanned schedule changes, overtime and week-end schedules
  • Control just-in-case inventory levels
  • Curtail emergency shipments and expedited freight charges
  • Reduce inventory levels without impacting delivery schedules

What our clients are saying

Based on results involving our 12 largest suppliers we feel TradeBeam… is a perfect fit for us…. We think it can become the industry standard for supply chain execution management.


Stryker

Application

TradeBeam is one of the largest providers of push and pull-based inventory collaboration in automotive, medical equipment, industrial products, and high technology industries.

Over 50% of the Tier 1 auto suppliers use TradeBeam Collaborative Inventory Management. TradeBeam’s established user community, created by the on-demand model, means thousands of suppliers are on our system and ready to collaborate with you.


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Key Benefits

  • Reduce production downtime
  • Eliminate excess inventory
  • Evaluate supplier effectiveness
  • Minimize premium freight
  • Reduce administrative costs

Key Features

  • Inventory and shipment dashboards
  • Multiple inventory replenishment models
  • Lean order scheduling
  • Supplier metrics
  • Internationalized for 11 languages and used in 41 countries

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