Supply Chain ManagementOverview
With Vision Supply Chain Management (SCM) your organization will quickly gain a strategic advantage by facilitating the sharing and coordination of information between yourself and your supply chain partners. Whether you are a traditional retailer, self-sourcing retailer or wholesaler, Vision SCM enables you to manage the various steps of the supply chain effectively, using technology that makes your trading partners accountable and responsive. Using Vision SCM, your trading partners will quickly become a natural extension of your organization through real-time collaboration, information sharing and supply chain visibility. Vision SCM’s exception-based management rules monitor processes (production steps, shipping, sample creation, purchase order fulfillment etc) and issues alerts based on thresholds eliminating bottlenecks and increasing speed-to-market.
FeaturesWorkflow Management (Tracking)
Vision SCM tracking enables your organization to leverage Purchase Order Lifecycle Management (POLM) providing you with greater flexibility when creating workflow paths and steps to monitor business processes. Automated alerts based on user-defined thresholds allow you to be proactive and solve problems before they arise.
Ensure that product design meets your organization’s quality expectations using Vision SCM’s pre-production module. Track design and development, specification delivery, style approval, samples, prototypes, and other user-defined events. Document receipt of material samples, approve color swatches and determine appropriate product finishings in an on-line environment.
Manage your production process and schedules of purchase orders and manufacturing orders. Vision SCM enables your business to monitor factories, raw material usage, and product costing. Sophisticated schedules with dependent, overlapping, and nested steps are easily accommodated. Product specifications, factory packaging instructions and hangtag information can all be included in an order or a specific step, further reducing packing and labeling errors that lead to costly charge-backs.
Effectively manage the bidding process with intelligent information about your vendors. Vision SCM retrieves each vendor’s quality rating and social compliance certification in the bidding process. Vision SCM offers live chat, email and audit trail features enabling two-way communications between yourself and the bidding vendors. Receive, evaluate, and award bids with automatic purchase order generation.
Obtain greater visibility into carton level details, shipment tracking, and ensure that the right product is headed to the right location. Remote partners and your internal shipping step owners can create cartons that are labeled and ready to go using Vision SCM’s pick/pack and ship functionality.
Ensuring that your product meets its associated quality rating is critical to your sell-through, and the reputation of both brand owners and retailers. Gain greater control over production quality by setting up processes to monitor and report on quality levels and approval thresholds, resulting in accurate supplier ratings. Quality rating is also factored into the awarding process of the bidding module.
Knowing that your goods are produced in an environment that meets quality and environmental standards is important to all parties including wholesalers, retailers, and ultimately consumers. Your customers are placing greater importance on how products are sourced and are pushing for improved manufacturing processes and working environments globally. This module provides your business with the visibility needed to maintain accountability and social responsibility: The consumers’ perception of your organization is important to the success of your brand. Gaining their trust can only be achieved by working with suppliers who can prove that they follow these requirements and have high ethical standards. Without these tools, you may be leaving your brands vulnerable to negative publicity and reduced brand loyalty.
Using Sales Link your customers and sales team can easily stay connected and have instant access to pricing, inventory, detailed product information, and order status information from any location. Empower your sales personnel by enabling them to generate sales orders on the fly using a web-browser, and instantly provide customers with an order number and an expected delivery date. As a client user, the ability to view order status, monitor its process and track its delivery, has never been easier.
Benefits
• Enables POLM
• Provides the flexibility to create workflow paths and steps to monitor any business process
• Automated alerts based on user-defined thresholds
• Ensures that your product design meets your quality expectations
• Tracks design and development, specification delivery, style approval, samples, prototypes, and other user defined events
• Receive material samples, approve color swatches, and determine appropriate product finishing
• Manages your production process and schedules of purchase orders and source orders
• Monitors factories, raw material usage, and product costing
• Sophisticated schedules with dependent, overlapping, and nested steps
• Effectively manages the bidding process with intelligent information about your vendors
• Offers live chat, email and audit trail features
• Receive, evaluate, and award bids with automatic purchase order generation
• Obtain visibility into carton level details, shipment tracking, and ensure that the right product is headed to the right location
• Pick/pack and ship functionality enables yourself or remote partners to create cartons that are labeled and ready to go
• Eliminates the need to send preprinted labels to partners
• Ensures that your products meet their associated quality rating
• Gain insight into the quality of product through processes and thresholds
• Helps determine where to award new jobs in the bidding process
• Protect your brand image
• Foster consumer trust
• Work with suppliers who can prove that they have high ethical standards by meeting user established criteria
• Stay connected and have instant access to information
• Empowers your sales personnel to generate sales orders instantly
• Allows your customers to view their order status, monitor progress, and track delivery
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