Responsive Supply Chain

Adapting internal technologies to suit changes in your business has been the model for years. But in today’s global economy, that’s no longer good enough—not even close. Because most companies operate in a network of some kind, tied to other companies in other states, countries and continents. Your IT must evolve to go beyond merely improving internal productivity to now improve the productivity of your networked business partners.

But since networks are growing in number so rapidly, they’re straining legacy IT systems and IT staff as companies struggle to meet this overwhelming demand for better collaboration, coordination, and communication. Which means that flexibility and the ability to respond quickly and effectively to your partners up and down your supply chain delivers competitive advantage in our networked economy.

*Crossgate B2B enablement can help with:
INVENTORY ON-HAND REDUCTION
Moving toward B2B integration by Crossgate—and away from paper-based processes—gives you better visibility into your supply chain, allowing you to keep a significantly better handle on inventories. This reduces your need to keep safety stock, reducing your inventory-on-hand carrying costs.

ENABLING MANUAL SUPPLIERS
For your small to medium-sized trading partners, the biggest obstacles to achieving enterprise connectivity has been the cost for participation and the time required for integration. The Crossgate Business-Ready Network provides your small business trading partners an easier way of exchanging information with you electronically; there’s no need for either you or your partners to decipher multiple data standards or access multiple portals. This lets you manage your partner collaboration more efficiently, and expand connectivity without having to invest in complex integration projects.

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Crossgate’s B2B integration gives you access to extensive transaction analytics that give you more up-to-date information and unprecedented visibility into and across your supply chain, allowing you to better forecast inventories and make adjustments to maximize your flexibility and actually improve productivity.