Announces Advanced Real-Time Collaboration Functionality for Supply Chain Management Applications
Enables Customers, Suppliers and Carriers to Collaborate in Real Time to Manage Inventory Deployment, Reduce Costs and Increase Customer Satisfaction
(PRWEB) December 2, 2004 -- ShipXpress Inc. today announces the availability
of Release 3.0 of its REALTIMEcollaboration software.
The development of
REALTIMEcollaboration is based on four years of customer experience. With this
release, the ShipXpress Inventory-in-Motion suite of application software offers
improved functionally for:
· Secure Selective sharing of real-time business
information.
· Rules-driven alerts to designated members of the supply
chain.
· Expanded report generation capabilities for individual users.
This release incorporates features that reduce mistakes associated with
the use of outdated, inconsistent, or incorrect data and improve decision-making
on shipment quantities, timing, and freight mode.
Overall benefits
include: fewer stock-outs, improved warehouse & inventory efficiencies,
lower transportation costs and increased customer satisfaction.
Three
examples of customer deployment of REALTIMEcollaboration serve to highlight its
value:
· A Fortune 50 building-products retailer used REALTIMEcollaboration
to manage the emergency deployment of inventory to meet hurricane-driven demand.
The application provided timely information to selected vendors, transportation
carriers and internal staff about the status of critical inventories, options to
be considered and the corrective actions to be taken.
· A Global 100
chemical supplier deployed REALTIMEcollaboration to provide visibility of
shipments to thousands of its customers. By linking its supply chain, customers
have timely visibility of their shipments and accordingly can take corrective
action to minimize the impact of any delays.
· A Fortune 500 agribusiness
company improved its customer satisfaction level by enabling its sales
representatives, logistics managers and customers to manage delivery of
essential agricultural products using REALTIMEcollaboration.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/12/prweb184321.htm