LONDON, 11 August 2008 – At a recent roundtable discussion, hosted by Supply Chain Standard, a group of industry leaders focused on the critical issues of creating and managing effective supply chain partnerships.
The content of the discussion included the barriers to effective partnering and collaboration, and how to embed partnering as a core business process, perhaps through the implementation of network tools such as Wesupply.com, as a simple means of communication and intelligence across trading partners.
The cost barrier to entry of implementing a collaborative technology solution has sometimes caused obstacles to effective partnering in the past. This can now be minimised due to the emergence of software-as-a-service applications. This type of delivery platform also enables a means of building effective relationships with all your suppliers, be that tier one, two or three. Simon Bowes, Director of Alliances of Wesupply.com explained that an outsourced solution, such as Wesupply.com enables organisations of all sizes to effectively manage their supply chain partnerships. Due to Wesupply.com’s simple OneTimeTM connection to its Network, regardless of your customers and trading partners’ electronic standards and technologies, “…small companies can behave like multi-million organisations: suddenly they are compliant with what their big customers want.”
The article concludes that technology is a good enabler for creating and managing innovative partner networks, if it is flexible, easy to use, and supports all the trading partners who want to join in.
The article will be published in the August issue of Logistics Manager, or you can read the full article at http://www.supplychainstandard.com/liChannelID/15/Articles/1791/Innovative+partner+networks.html
About Wesupply.com
Wesupply.com is for retailers, distributors and manufacturers of all sizes, who are dissatisfied with the complexity, cost, maintenance and cumbersome deployment of current on premise electronic trading and supply chain solutions which ultimately fail to support supply chain innovation.
Wesupply.com offers On Demand Electronic Trading and Supply Chain Management through a simple OneTimeTM connection to the network, regardless of their customers’ and trading partners’ electronic standards and technologies. Wesupply.com provides a single, unbiased view of a company’s entire supply chain network and the electronic messages exchanged. The solution enables collaborative control of their supply chain and allows rapid adoption of new processes that deliver visibility and confidence internally and with their network trading partners.
Wesupply.com is the emerging leader in On Demand Supply Chain Management, with over 400 clients, 1,000 connections and over 50,000 trading relationships, in 16 countries across Europe, USA and Asia Pacific.
If you would like to find out more about how other companies are benefiting from collaborative control of their supply chains, delivering visibility and confidence to our clients and their trading partners, or would be interested in evaluating how Wesupply.com will work for you please contact Nicola Cowling, Marketing Communications Manager, Wesupply.com on ncowling@wesupply.com or +44 (0)1628 817982.
