Supply Chain Management Solutions

With over 35 years of experience, GXS is a leading provider of On-Demand Supply Chain Management (SCM) Solutions, including supply chain inventory management and collaboration solutions. Backed by a superior global infrastructure and portfolio of innovative solutions and services, GXS provides a cost-effective, yet innovative solution for cross-enterprise business process management (BPM) and automation. From helping customers manage their extended network and improving product launches, to optimizing supply chain costs and better predicting consumer needs, SCM Solutions from GXS help organizations reach their goals and their potential.

To learn more about how On-Demand Supply Chain Management solutions from GXS can help your organization, contact us today.

Supply Chain Management Solutions & Benefits

On-demand supply chain management (SCM) solutions from GXS are designed to create and maintain a balance between supply and demand. One of the most noted benefits is that it can help a company maximize its organizational agility. With on-demand SCM solutions, companies increase their resiliency against unpredictable threats and disruptions, and can quickly and accurately respond as market opportunities appear.

In addition to increased organizational agility, On-Demand Supply Chain Management solutions from GXS deliver real-time monitoring and supply chain inventory management functionality, thereby making investments in existing SCM technology more successful.

With On-Demand Supply Chain Management Solutions from GXS, organizations can:

• Transact with Partners Anywhere, Anytime – Deliver electronic documents to your trading partner, including purchase orders, invoices, payment instructions, shipment notices, sales forecasts, and inventory positions, regardless of their level of e-commerce sophistication. The GXS global platform helps ensure all of your electric documents are delivered securely and reliably throughout the world.
• Monitor End-to-End Business Processes – Once e-commerce transactions are automated, it is critical that you monitor and measure transactions with your supply chain partners so you can proactively respond. Intelligence Services can detect critical supply signals, such as shipment or manufacturing delays, and demand signals, such as a sudden increase in sales or a shortage of in-store inventory. Track-and-trace capabilities enable you to determine whether an order has been acknowledged, shipped, received, invoiced or paid. Your business can avoid costly out-of-stocks and order delays.
• Synchronize Information – To realize the ROI from e-commerce initiatives, you need high quality data. Otherwise, you may simply be automating the transmission of errors. The GXS Trading Grid® can ensure the contents of electronic documents are complete, accurate and up-to-date, based on configurable business rules. Our data validation services can inspect order-specific data in real-time transactions for any inconsistencies. Data synchronization services enable trading partners to exchange reference data about products, locations and customers. Synchronizing reference data significantly reduces errors.
• Collaborate and Share Processes – Ultimately, the most successful businesses collaborate electronically with their key trading partners to achieve the optimal continuous balance of supply and demand.
  
  Examples of trading partner and supply chain collaboration include:
  • Demand Planning -– developing joint forecast models to optimize merchandising, inventory, logistics and manufacturing processes
  • Product Development -– jointly analyzing customer behavior and designing new products to go to market before the competition
  • Marketing and Sales -– jointly planning promotional activities to drive product sales in selected market segments

Choosing Supply Chain Management Solutions

With all of the Supply Chain Management solutions available, choosing the one that is right for your company can seem daunting. GXS will work with you to learn how your company does business, and then apply our years of experience to help you select the solution that best satisfies your requirements.

Supply Chain Management Solutions from GXS will work to help:

• Increase Productivity -– through the reduction of purchase order costs and cycle times
• Improve Inventory Levels -– by enabling clients to reduce inventory levels, improve inventory turns and eliminate out-of-stock occurrences
• Reduce Operation Costs -– by helping clients to move goods and documents not only quicker, but also more reliably

Supply Chain Collaboration

As outsourcing continues to become more commonplace, fewer companies are managing the entire manufacturing process from start to finish. For many companies, the manufacturing process is now a supply chain collaboration distributed across many different manufacturers who all own different components used in the assembly process.

As a result of this shared manufacturing process, an increasing number of processes are becoming cross-enterprise. On-Demand Supply Chain Management solutions from GXS help to streamline these processes by simplifying the steps involved. With On-Demand SCM from GXS, your organization will get maximum flexibility as well as economies of scale from a high-performance hosted solution.

Effectively Managing Your Supply Chain with GXS

A leading worldwide provider of on-demand B2B e-commerce solutions designed to enhance and simplify the integration and collaboration of business processes, GXS provides sales and support to businesses as well as their partners worldwide. GXS solutions help companies both small and large, including over 75 percent of the Fortune 500, to connect with their global partners, optimize inventory levels and demand forecasts, synchronize product information, and accelerate the execution of supply chains.

To learn more about how our supply chain management solutions help your company achieve balance between supply and demand, contact us today.