Supply chain visibility & integration
In your journey towards excellence, you have invested in ERP and SCM systems which are excellent tools for planning, execution and automating your supply chain transactions and processes. These systems make your supply chain management processes simple by automating manual, paper based, time consuming processes. But all these systems live in their own electronic vaults without interacting directly with your physical entities (products, goods, materials, etc.) except with your people. People are the only fundamental interaction points with these systems and depend heavily on the input from your people(users of the systems) about the physical world i.e. the status of material flows, inventory levels etc. Imagine what happens when your employees don’t have accurate information of the physical objects in your supply chain. Often data about your finished goods inventory, WIP, raw materials, etc at different stages in your supply chain in the ERP / SCM systems are different from what is there actually in your warehouses, shop floors, with distributors or with your suppliers. When you are always trying to squeeze cost out of your supply chain and make your processes efficient, it is very important to remove this fundamental information gap existing between the physical world and the electronic world. You need a solution so that your ERP and SCM solutions see the real world without human intervention. You need a solution where you can see what is happening in your supply chain in real-time. Welcome to the world of s-commerce(silent commerce) powered by RFId technology which enables the physical entities to silently talk and interact with your supply chain electronically.The Solution
RFId based supply chain visibility solutions from Perspecte provide you total visibility of your supply chain. A well designed and cost-effective RFId network connecting your vendors, distributors and partners, consisting of Antennas/Readers will form the backbone of the solution providing real-time information. You can monitor the flow of raw materials, WIP and finished goods at your shopfloor, vendors, distributors and other partners of your supply chain in real-time providing you the flexibility and nimbleness to respond to the market demand effectively. Our visibility solutions automate many of your manual identification processes at different points (vendor factory exits, warehouses, distribution centers, retailers’ warehouses, etc.) to capture the data on materials/products/WIP. Acquiring and integrating information about the current location and history of an item in the supply chain can help to create more efficient workflow and error-free processes. Rich real-time information about the physical items across your supply chain provides you with unknown patterns and intelligence information about your processes and players.
Benefits
Improved response to market demands
- Helps enterprises to respond to their customer's requirements consistently and quickly since accurate inventory information and sales information across the supply chain is available to all the players in the supply chain.
- Customers or retailers can see where their items are currently located and their accurate status
Supply chain integration & integration with enterprise systems
- Accurate information of items tagged with RFId tags and passed through across various players in the supply chain provides consistent information to enterprise applications like ERP, SCM & CRM and enables inter-enterprise process integration
- Integration of various players and processes within the supply chain improves the efficiency of the entire supply chain and thereby brings in remarkable cost savings to all the players
- Complete visibility of the supply chain enables swift action during complex and unpredictable demand situations, unpredictable actions from competitors and any other problems in the supply infrastructure
Reduced Inventory
- Improved visibility of the inventory levels at various nodes of the supply chain increases the reliability of the supply chain and enables cut down on inventory levels attributed to uncertainties and lack of reliability
- Inventory across the chain will be drastically reduced since replenishment happens when a customer picks the product from the retailer shelf and this event is visible to every other player in real time
Business Intelligence
- Enables enterprises to build various analytical models which will provides insights on inventory patterns, process efficiencies, customer behaviour, lead times at various players, etc.
- Increased supply chain intelligence enables enterprises to focus their efforts on bottlenecks and constraint areas in the supply chain