Collaborative Inventory Management
Create a rewarding relationship with your supplier. As a manufacturer, you can provide your suppliers real-time visibility into your component inventory status. This includes on-hand, forecast, usage, orders, shipments and receipts, and real-time notification exceptions. TradeBeam Collaborative Inventory Management complements your existing ERP, inventory, logistics, and warehouse management systems by making key information locked within them visible to suppliers via the Web.
Expanded Features
Supplier Visibility Into Inventory Needs
Each participating supplier has real-time visibility into your component inventory status. This includes on-hand levels, forecasts, usage, orders, shipments and receipts, and notification exceptions.
Supplier Management to Your Goals
Your supplier has information immediately available that previously required several steps and wait time. The supplier can act on this information according to your business rules, without waiting for direction from you. The supplier has its own TradeBeam interface application, and TradeBeam provides any supplier training.
Supplier Performance Ratings
A comprehensive rating system covers multiple levels, including the plant and supplier’s facility, down to the level of part number or event detail.
Alerts to Exceptions
A comprehensive alerting system identifies exceptions in inventory levels, consumption, shipments, receipts, time-based events, and other critical milestones for inventory flow.
Secure
You can control a supplier’s access to important tasks, configure supplier visibility, and set company password and login policies. An advanced security model enables data access and collaboration across organizations and entities.
Inventory and Shipment Dashboards
See near real-time summary views of inventory, shipping, receiving and related data.
Filter, sort, and drill-down into forecast demand, supplier capacity, projected inventory, actual usage, authorization history, and critical inventory.
Monitor inventory of multiple facilities from a single dashboard.
Multiple Inventory Replenishment Models
Automated replenishment signals include both pull-based models (Kanban and Collaborative Min-Max Inventory Management) and traditional push-based models.
Order Management
Manage the entire order cycle across different order types and replenishment models. All players in the supply chain, from parts managers to suppliers, contribute online to the order process.
Shipping and Receiving
See detailed information regarding all promises, shipments in transit, ETAs, receipts, and projected inventory levels. View complete shipping and receipt history, including discrepancies.
“At a Glance” Interactive Visualizations
Quickly identify problems indicated by color-coded inventory status bars. View interactive forecast, usage, and projected inventory graphs.
Configuration Flexibility
Use custom fields to easily configure, monitor, and group items and shipments.
Use custom formulas to set Min/Max levels and recommend shipment quantities based on business requirements.
Dynamic Min/Max
Schedule agents with configurable formulas for determining variable Min-Max levels based on forecasted demand or actual usage. Review, approve, and audit changes.
Lean Logistics
Automate push or pull-based pickup orders based on your carrier’s pickup schedules and your lead times.
Review historical snapshots of inventory, keep track of supplier compliance, and receive alerts when exceptions occur.
Internationalization
The supplier’s interface is available in ten languages including Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), English, French, German, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Integration—Internally and With Partners
Implement as a component of a broader solution or as a standalone solution. TradeBeam Collaborative Inventory Management complements your existing ERP, inventory, logistics, and warehouse management systems by making key information locked within them visible to suppliers via the Web.
Interface with all trading partners through an array of inbound and outbound communication capabilities including EDI, XML, middleware technologies, or simple e-mail and fax alerts.
Web-based Architecture
Access from any Web browser. All applications are standards-based and highly scalable. XML-based integration model supports seamless inbound and outbound data sharing with third-party applications.
Support
24×7 TradeBeam-managed EDI and application support. Experienced TradeBeam implementation support offers Business Process, Min-Max Strategy, and Messaging setup and training.
