Solutions: Supply Chain Management

Triweb Solutions' BizPartner™ solution drives improved business performance in Supply Chain Management. By automating person to person, person to system, and system to system processes, it lowers costs, reduces errors, and improves quality.

Business Process and workflow automation is increasingly recognized as a source of competitive advantage because it increases efficiency, increases customer satisfaction, and shortens the time required for critical decision-making.

Supply Chain Management challenges in small to mid-sized companies

As a small or mid-sized business doing business with many suppliers, some larger and some smaller, the lure of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) can be great but the technical hurdles can be greater still. And even when there is some form of electronic connection, perhaps as simple as email, problems still arise:

• It is difficult to measure the inefficiencies in the system and therefore impossible to get any planned improvement in cycle time or cost reductions
• Some parts of the ordering process are automated while other parts remain manual and are therefore more error prone
• Issues arise which require immediate decisions but do not become apparent fast enough, resulting in delays, costly reparations, and customer dissatisfaction
• Your SCM system doesn't support some key features that you need such as order acknowledgement and invoice reconciliation

BizPartner™ Benefits for Supply Chain Management Lower Costs

Manual processes are well known for being slow, error prone and costly. Automation and collaboration can dramatically reduce the operating cost for your transactions with your partners. Market studies estimate manual processes at $100-150 per transaction. The BizPartner™ solution can reduce this dramatically. Reductions in costs for expediting materials can contribute to lowering the overall cost of goods and in addition can also contribute to lower required inventory levels.

Shortened Cycle Times

When the processes for placing purchase orders and receiving order acknowledgements are automated and immediately flag any out of bounds occurrences, your staff can spend time proactively focused on finding ways to shorten processes using the process metrics reports that BizPartner™ provides. More efficient processes mean shorter cycle times, which in turn can mean happier customers.

Efficiency and Productivity

If your business has three purchasing people today and the revenue plan is to double next year, does that mean you will need six people next year? It doesn't have to be this way. Eliminate fax messages, voicemail message trading, and frustration related to the tasks for exception handling and conducting commerce with your partners. BizPartner™ automates your processes, such as order exceptions and invoice reconciliation, to conduct collaborative commerce online.

Automated process captures employee knowledge

Do you have undocumented processes for dealing with specific suppliers? Are these processes recorded only in the heads of certain employees who aren't permitted to have an unplanned day off. By using the BizPartner™ solution all of these processes become recorded so that you can be more flexible in your staffing arrangements, and lower the companies overall risk.