To manage supply chain complexity, the flow of goods and information must be coordinated between the many business partners and companies that comprise the Retail Value Chain. Visibility throughout the supply chain and the tiers of partner companies is a business mandate for effective coordination. Lack of real-time visibility causes companies to operate with excess in stocked items, excess inventories, longer cycle times and higher operating costs than necessary.
IMI Collaboration helps companies increase order fulfillment reliability and velocity, lower supply chain-wide inventory levels and increase cross-docking and in-transit-merging activities. It facilitates interaction within the partner trading community and manages many-to-many relations between business partners and service providers. With IMI Collaboration, companies can make highly specialized functions like warehousing, transportation, order fulfillment and returns processing work in concert with the many and divergent supply chain partners, including suppliers, service providers, customers, stores and consumers. |
