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Wesupply.com On Demand Electronic Trading solution manages the entire process for companies to easily exchange electronic data such as purchase orders, invoices and forecasts with each other in order to increase the speed of conducting business, reduce errors and administration and intelligently analyse trends, opportunities and issues.

By utilising an easy OneTime^TM connection to the network, regardless of your customers and trading partners' electronic standards and technologies, Wesupply.com provides a single, unbiased view of your entire supply chain network and the electronic messages exchanged. The solution enables collaborative control of your supply chain and allows rapid adoption of new processes that delivers visibility and control to all of your supply chain trading partners.

Wesupply.com's OneTime^TM approach offers an immediate means of rapidly connecting applications, message formats and delivery protocols across a company and its trading partner network. More importantly, Wesupply.com intelligent network analyses the data inside these messages so that it can be used to automatically resolve transaction exceptions, and drive network based analysis. This is a cost-effective, efficient and intelligent method of electronic message delivery between all trading partners and customers, using any common mechanism including EDIFACT, TRADACOMS, ANSI, AS2, XML/RosettaNet, FTP and Web Browser.

Companies connect their own, on premise ERP Applications, such as SAP®, Oracle®, or an Infor solution to Wesupply.com's intelligent Network (WiN) via one of over 250 standard Connectors. Wesupply.com intelligent Network then connects the company to their Customers, Suppliers, Sister Divisions, Branches or other Trading Partners. And since the solution is On Demand a company can rapidly deploy a full electronic trading solution with its partners without the need to obtain software, hardware, infrastructure or pay maintenance charges. Wesupply will also use their expertise and experience to adopt and enable a companies trading partners on their behalf, and to provide ongoing support.

What are the benefits?

Configurable, easy to use, easy to deploy, On Demand electronic trading solutions, focus on delivering quick business benefits for you, your customers and your network trading partners.

Wesupply.com is a low risk, easy to join, mature, outsourced solution to Electronic Trading which enables secure On Demand B2B exchange of electronic documents such as invoices, purchase orders and ASN's. The solution dramatically reduces information latency, data entry errors, manual tasks and importantly provides intelligent analysis of partner relationships.

On Demand Electronic Trading

If you are responsible for IT Wesupply.com will be able to help you:

Benefit from On Demand
Wesupply.com is an On Demand solution (also known as SaaS - Software as a Service). In the future, 30% of all Software will be delivered in this way. In the same way that Salesforce.com is the leading On Demand solution for Customer Relationship Management, Wesupply.com is the emerging leader in On Demand Supply Chain Management.

Leverage your existing systems
Wesupply.com is designed to complement your existing investments in ERP and SCM applications. If you have implemented SAP®, Oracle® or Infor, we have prepackaged solutions, WiN Connect for use with SAP® ERP, WiN Connect for use with Oracle® and WiN Connect for use with Infor®. If you have to manage a variety of enterprise solutions, Wesupply.coms Network architecture is designed to connect simply through pre-defined or configurable connectors to provide one normalised view of your entire supply chain.

Reduce IT Costs
As an On Demand solution, Wesupply.com requires no investment in Software, Hardware, Infrastructure or other Technology. Crucially, there is no maintenance charge and because you can pay as you go for the functionality you use, there is no Shelfware.

Deliver business benefit with fast implementations
Wesupply.com solutions are already installed and up and running. Predefined connectors exist for most enterprise applications and for 300 existing companies on our network. Configuration is only required for the functionality you need to deliver which means that you can respond to your business users requirements with rapid solutions.

Quickly deliver with minimal resource requirement
A collaborative network based Electronic Trading or Supply Chain Management solution can only deliver benefit if trading partners are successfully connected. Our adoption and enablement service will get your trading partners connected to your network for you. We manage surveying, education, configuration, connection, testing, and support so that your own resource constraints wont limit the speed with which your network grows.

Avoid the need for constantly expanding skills base
As a leading provider of On Demand Electronic Trading solutions, Wesupply.com has expertise with all of the large and growing range of standards, message formats and communication protocols. By connecting to the Wesupply intelligent Network, with OneTime^TM, you only need expertise in your own applications and standards. Wesupply.com manages the rest.

If you are responsible for supply chain management Wesupply.com will be able to help you:

Close the loop with Planning
How do you ensure that your supply chain plans get executed correctly? Are you able to sense and respond to real time changes in the supply chain? As velocity increases and buffers in the supply chain are reduced, planning and execution need to be tightly integrated internally and externally with trading partners. Wesupply.com is designed to connect all of your internal and external resources to provide a common platform for sharing plans and ensuring that necessary changes get communicated and executed properly, to improve responsiveness and customer service.

Improve Availability
Reducing inventory is a false objective. In the supply chain you need to ensure that the right inventory is available to your customer when they need it, which means improving availability. Wesupply.com On Demand Supply Chain Planning provides collaborative planning solutions to help you improve forecast accuracy, and provide optimised replenishment plans, while our integrated Supply Chain Execution solutions will ensure that deliveries and inventory are on target.

Improve Customer Service
For supply chain professionals, there are many customers internally and externally. Visibility is vital to ensure that internal and external customer service is balanced correctly. Wesupply.com's Network architecture means that all your trading partners planning and execution data can be seen, aggregated and compared to ensure that you have all the information available to support the right decisions for customer service

Improve Delivery Speed with Minimal Resource Requirements
Wesupply.com solutions are already installed and up and running. Predefined connectors exist for most enterprise applications and for 300 existing companies on our network. Configuration is only required for the functionality you need to deliver which means that you can respond to changes in your supply chain requirements with a minimum of implementation, consulting or IT resources.

Pay as You Go
Pay as you go on results and for the functionality you use. Wesupply.com is an On Demand solution  which requires no investment in Software, Hardware, Infrastructure or other Technology. Crucially, there is no maintenance charge and because you can pay as you go for the functionality you use, there is no Shelfware. Since there is no up front software or hardware cost, most projects are paid for from expense budgets avoiding the need for lengthy capital expenditure processes.

If you are responsible for purchasing Wesupply.com will be able to help you:

Increase Supplier Performance
"What's measured is improved". Wesupply.com is designed to leverage a Network architecture so that all trading partner data can be securely and simply accessed to provide maximum visibility. This provides access for you and your suppliers to accurate, unbiased measurement of order quality, shipment and delivery performance and overall perfect order metrics, including 3^rd party performance.

Reduce Administration
By integrating planning, execution and electronic trading, Wesupply.com ensures that network information is up to date and visible to all those who need it. This drastically improves accuracy and reduces the need for re-keying, double entry, telephone chasing and duplicated monitoring to allow your resources to concentrate on sourcing, negotiating and range planning.

Reduce Lead Times
By providing electronic communication, information latency is eliminated, which in many cases can be a significant part of any lead time. Wesupply.com Supply Chain Management also provides a range of tools which allows you to collaborate with your suppliers so that they have maximum visibility of your immediate needs and future requirements and you have visibility of their availability and plans.

Improve Goods Receiving and Invoicing Matching Accuracy
With Wesupply.com Network Delivery Management, you can leverage intelligent network data such as Advance Shipping Notices (ASNs) to dramatically improve goods receiving accuracy and efficiency. Milestone tracking and alerting will notify you of impending or late receipts, and automated goods inwards can allow arrivals and receiving to be booked in with a single keypress. Improved accuracy in receiving will lead to improved invoice matching, and Wesupply.com can be used to generate self billed invoices or drive e-invoicing initiatives with your suppliers.

Enable extended supplier services
You can use Wesupply.com to provide your suppliers with capabilities to help you such as order track and trace, inventory visibility, consignment stock control and Kanban or Vendor Managed Inventory replenishment programs. By providing these solutions through Wesupply.com, you can be sure of maximum visibility, alerting and control whilst still delegating responsibility for execution to your suppliers.

Stay competitive and improve financial performance by rapidly and cost effectively implementing Electronic Trading and collaborative business processes across your corporation, trading partners and customers to address these business issues.

• Do you need to meet multiple electronic trading mandates driven by retail and wholesale technology adoption?
• Are you faced with increasingly punitive penalties for poor service level performance?
• Do you need to reduce the environmental impact through increasing transport efficiency?

How Wesupply.com can help:

Multiple electronic trading mandates driven by retail and wholesale technology adoption
As the retail and wholesale companies rationalise, and become more competitive, they are seeking efficiencies through electronic trading initiatives. For suppliers to these companies, pressure is increasing to comply with multiple and differing mandates to adopt a variety of EDI and other electronic trading technologies and standards.

Wesupply.com's Electronic Trading solution with OneTime^TM technology can help companies meet this challenge by providing a simple, single connection to their enterprise systems. Once connected, Wesupply.com takes responsibility for communicating your data in any format or protocol to their trading partners. Through our adoption and enablement services Wesupply.com has helped many companies in the Building sector establish and comply with customer mandates and has an extensive network of standard connectors to all of the main hubs in the industry.

Increasingly punitive penalties for poor service level performance
Independent measurement of performance through Wesupply.coms supply chain planning and execution solutions helps companies to identify where failing performance is impacting profitability and find rapid and innovative ways to improve. Wesupply.com provides a number of configurable On Demand Electronic Trading and Supply Chain Management Solutions to address these specific issues:

• Performance Monitoring through Operational Analysis highlights problem areas and trends which can then be addressed through adopting simple supply chain solutions.
• Wesupply.com On Demand Electronic Trading provides intelligent transformation to automatically set agreed shipment and delivery due dates which are the basis of fair performance measurement.
• Network Order Management provides milestone track and trace to enable identification of all steps in the order and delivery process including those under the control of your suppliers, 3^rd parties and customers. This means that everyone in the network has visibility of a complete order lifecycle and pinpoints areas for improvement. 
• Network Demand Planning provides collaborative visibility of true demand which reduces surprises and and enables trading partners to make better decisions for themselves and their customers.
• Network Replenishment Planning automatically calculates the optimal shipment quantities and delivery dates for all items, ship froms and ship tos. By implementing the Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) solution, network trading partners can automate and streamline finished goods replenishment with full visibility and control for both the customer and supplier.

Need to reduce environmental impact through increasing transport efficiency

• Network Inventory Visibility allows companies to see opportunities for low cost and efficient ordering or internal redeployment
• Vendor Managed Inventory within Network Replenishment Planning enables suppliers to ensure that their customers inventories are always on target. This gives suppliers the opportunity to plan shipments and deliveries which are cost effective and optimised for transport efficiency.
• Network Delivery Planning contains sophisticated algorithms to optimise load planning. By understanding drop sequences and pallet stacking rules, Wesupply.com can significantly increase truck and container utilisation rates to reduce inefficient deliveries without compromising service levels.
• Network Replenishment allows customer driven, controlled purchase order call off capabilities with shipment efficiency indicators. This ensures store or branch personnel can call in efficient and lower cost deliveries.
• Network Demand Planning means that the network is prepared for previously unforeseen changes in demand which leads to a reduction in costly and inefficient emergency orders and avoids unnecessary shipment of excess inventories and their consequent return or disposal

Industrial Solutions from Wesupply.com help you more effectively manage your complex supply chains by integrating both internal and external trading partners, control costs and keep demand and supply in synch.  

Are you challenged by a complex internal and external supply chain network?
Do you require complex synchronisation of customer and supplier sites, or have no visibility of supplier commitments and performance. Is there a lack of centralised management in your organisation or are you restricted by a lack of visibility of inter site movements?

Are you faced with increasing service requirements?
Is increasing competition forcing you to look at more valued added services or move to holistic service level provision? Are you constantly under pressure to reduce lead times?

Are you constantly under pressure to control costs?
Do you have limited leverage over your suppliers? Do you need to reduce emergency logistics and avoid customer penalties for poor service level?

How Wesupply.com can help:

Complex Internal and External Supply Chain Network
Wesupply.com On Demand Electronic Trading Solution simplifies integration for both internal and external trading partners and allows trading partners to gain visibility and control across their supply chain network without forcing a common enterprise platform.
Wesupply.com provides a number of configurable On Demand Supply Chain Management Solutions addressing specific business process issues to drive out costs, release significant working capital and improve margins.

• Network Replenishment Planning keeps inter site demand and supply in synch and supports "adherence to schedule" monitoring
• Network Order Management helps you keep control of internal and external movements to maintain constant visibility and provides milestone tracking to see inbound global order status.
• Network Stock Control allows control of 3^rd party stocks and consignment stock, as well as control of stock in transit.
• Network Inventory Visibility maintains common visibility of internal subassembly inventories and third party inventory

Increasing Service Requirements
Wesupply.com On Demand Electronic Trading Solution captures key milestones for service level monitoring, reduces errors and administration, provides On Demand integration to speed information flow and keep data synchronised

• Network Demand Planning provides collaborative visibility of internal assembly demand and external/spares demand
• Network Replenishment Planning enables access and visibility to informal data and decisions through visibility of inter plant supply without compromising ERP system stability.
• Network Replenishment provides Kanban or VMI service to customers.
• Network Order Management provides milestone track and trace for global logistics.

Cost Control
Wesupply.com On Demand Electronic Trading Solution reduces information latency with suppliers to reduce lead times, errors and administration.

Wesupply.com On Demand Supply Chain Management Solutions can also help

• Network Replenishment Planning predicts customer shortfall with time to repair the plan, provides visibility to prevent unnecessary procurement or WIP, and increases confidence in planned and available supply to reduce excess inventory. Inter Plant supply also provides full supply chain control to reduce unplanned events.
• Network Replenishment enables Co Managed Inventory or Consignment stock management with suppliers
• Network Order Management controls supplier and inter site movements to account for all operations and predicts and controls delivery dates to reduce unnecessary emergency shipments.
• Operational Analysis measures supplier performance and enforces compliance/penalties.

CPG Solutions from Wesupply.com help you meet your availability targets a deliver great customer service when challenged by many trade promotions and more and more new product introductions.

Do your customers appreciate the need to give you sufficient lead time to complete their order efficiently? Or do they expect 100% on shelf availability regardless of notice of demand.

Do all your promotions run according to plan, leaving you with no excess inventory or out of stocks? Or do you have to make "low data" decisions and supplier commitments just in case?

How Wesupply.com can help:

Wesupply.com is unique in its ability to provide Supply Chain Planning and Execution solutions On Demand, underpinned by leading edge Electronic Trading and Integration services, which can help you address these issues through collaboration. Our solutions complement your existing ERP or SCM solutions (e.g. SAP®, Oracle®, Infor), to enable rapid business innovation.

Improve availability for your customers

Wesupply.com On Demand Electronic Trading Solution simplifies integration for both internal and external trading partners and allows trading partners to gain visibility and control across their supply chain network without forcing a common enterprise platform.

Wesupply.com provides a number of configurable On Demand Supply Chain Management Solutions addressing specific business processes to improve availability.

• Network Demand Planning provides improved forecast accuracy and greater visibility by providing collaborative tools which allow all stakeholders to participate in the forecasting process

• Network Replenishment Planning supports material planners with algorithms designed to respond to demand fluctuations, and which allow control for execution to be safely delegated as in Vendor or Co Managed Inventory programs on behalf of your customers.

• Network Delivery Planning integrates the roles of you, your customer and 3rd party logistics carriers to give optimised load planning, and global visibility of deliveries to your customers warehouses and even direct to stores.

• Network Order Management helps you keep control of all types of demand to maintain constant visibility and provides milestone tracking to see inbound and outbound global order status.

Effective Promotions Management

• Network Demand Planning identifies different sources of demand and allows promotional demand to be analysed and planned separately from regular demand, but remain aggregated for ordering and replenishment.

• Operational Analysis enables plan vs actual assessment of previous promotions, and when combined with the speed and accuracy of Wesupply.com Electronic Trading, is able to provide targeted uptake data to ensure that sales are maximised without unnecessary excess.
• Network Stock Control provides specific management of direct materials and finished goods as well as promotional items such as marketing materials and displays which are vital to ensure successful rollout.
• Network Replenishment Planning allows CPG manufacturers to be more proactive with their customers in ensuring that their products reach store by allowing visibility of store sales, stocks and planned orders. You can also compare your customers orders with those calculated in Wesupply.com, and even share your own recommendations for more optimal replenishment.

Most EDI projects are limited by the fact that only certain customers and suppliers have the technical ability or maturity to implement the required technology. This means that any e-trading initiative must also support a large number of trading partners operating with traditional labour intensive communication.

As an On Demand solution, Wesupply.com is available on-line, and through its Supply Chain Management expertise, has integrated web forms into its electronic trading solution.

By Using Wesupply.com, all trading partners can now be electronically connected to you via EDI, FTP, Web Forms or even Fax, to support comprehensive e-ordering, e-purchasing, e-invoicing and e-billing programs.

By Implementing Wesupply.com, you can leverage intelligent network documents such as customer orders, purchase orders, order acknowledgements, advanced shipping notices (ASNs) and invoices to dramatically improve accuracy and efficiency.  Improved accuracy in receiving will lead to improved invoice matching, and Wesupply.com can be used to generate self billed invoices or drive e-invoicing initiatives with your customers or suppliers.

If you have one or multiple instances of SAP® ERP and want a quick, reliable and secure means of connecting and collaborating with internal and external trading partners, WiN Connect can get you up and running in less than 60 days.

Wesupply.com's WiN Connect is specifically designed to work with your SAP® ERP system, providing a quick, easy and low risk solution for extending your internal, enterprise based SAP® ERP implementation to Network based Electronic Trading and On Demand network based supply chain management.

WiN Connect provides a standard, configurable iDoc based connector from your SAP® ERP system to the Wesupply intelligent Network, which allows you to securely connect to all of your trading partners regardless of their own system, protocol or message standards.

It allows you to send key transactions such as PO's, Acknowledgements, ASN's, Invoices, Forecasts, Inventory levels and other information electronically, to your customers, suppliers, plants, branches or trading partners.

WiN Connect provides an On Demand extension to your SAP® ERP system which provides a secure, collaborative, network based supply chain planning and execution capability, with underlying intelligent alerting and supply chain metric analysis. With Connect you can quickly enable innovative processes with your internal and external trading partners:

• Collaborative Demand Planning
• Inventory Visibility
• Inter Plant Supply
• Off Shore Manufacturing
• Replenishment Planning
• Sales and Operations Planning
• E-invoicing
• 3^rd Party Tracking
• Collaborative Order Management
• Delivery Management
• Integrated Goods Inwards
• Order Lifecycle Visibility
• Shipment Tracking
• Web Order Entry
• Kanban and Vendor Managed Inventory
• 3^rd Party and Consignment Stock Control
• Reverse Logistics

If you have one or multiple instances of Oracle® and want a quick, reliable and secure means of connecting and collaborating with internal and external trading partners, WiN Connect for use with Oracle® can get you up and running in less than 60 days.

WiN Connect is specifically designed to work with your Oracle® application, providing a quick, easy and low risk solution for extending your internal, enterprise based Oracle® or JD Edwards® implementation to Network based On Demand Electronic Trading and Supply Chain Management.

WiN Connect provides a standard, configurable connector from your Oracle® system to the Wesupply intelligent Network, which allows you to securely connect to all of your trading partners regardless of their own system, protocol or message standards.

It allows you to send key transactions such as PO's, Acknowledgements, ASN's, Invoices, Forecasts, Inventory levels and other information electronically, to your customers, suppliers, plants, branches or trading partners.

WiN Connect also provides an On Demand extension to your Oracle® system which enables secure, collaborative, network based supply chain planning and execution, with underlying intelligent alerting and supply chain metric analysis. You can quickly enable innovative processes with your internal and external trading partners:

• Collaborative Demand Planning
• Inventory Visibility
• Inter Plant Supply
• Off Shore Manufacturing
• Replenishment Planning
• Sales and Operations Planning
• E-invoicing
• 3^rd Party Tracking
• Collaborative Order Management
• Delivery Management
• Integrated Goods Inwards
• Order Lifecycle Visibility
• Shipment Tracking
• Web Order Entry
• Kanban and Vendor Managed Inventory
• 3^rd Party and Consignment Stock Control
• Reverse Logistics

If you have one or multiple instances of Infor and want a quick, reliable and secure means of connecting and collaborating with internal and external trading partners, WiN Connect for use with Infor can get you up and running in less than 60 days. 

WiN Connect is specifically designed to work with your Infor application, providing a quick, easy and low risk solution for extending your internal, enterprise based  System 21, Mapics or BPCS implementation to Network based On Demand Electronic Trading and Supply Chain Management.

WiN Connect provides a standard, configurable connector from your Infor system to the Wesupply intelligent Network, which allows you to securely connect to all of your trading partners regardless of their own system, protocol or message standards.

It allows you to send key transactions such as PO's, Acknowledgements, ASN's, Invoices, Forecasts, Inventory levels and other information electronically, to your customers, suppliers, plants, branches or trading partners.

WiN Connect also provides an On Demand extension to your Infor system which enables secure, collaborative, network based supply chain planning and execution, with underlying intelligent alerting and supply chain metric analysis. You can quickly enable innovative processes with your internal and external trading partners:

• Collaborative Demand Planning
• Inventory Visibility
• Inter Plant Supply
• Off Shore Manufacturing
• Replenishment Planning
• Sales and Operations Planning
• E-invoicing
• 3^rd Party Tracking
• Collaborative Order Management
• Delivery Management
• Integrated Goods Inwards
• Order Lifecycle Visibility
• Shipment Tracking
• Web Order Entry
• Kanban and Vendor Managed Inventory
• 3^rd Party and Consignment Stock Control
• Reverse Logistics

If you are responsible for sales Wesupply.com will be able to help you:

Meet Customer Mandates
More and more companies are realising the significant benefits in accuracy and speed of adopting electronic trading. In order to maximise their benefit from adopting this technology, these companies are mandating their suppliers to adopt the same approach. Being able to respond positively or even pre-empt such a mandate is vital to that relationship, and future sales. As an On Demand solution, Wesupply.com ensures that your company is ready and willing to comply with all of your customers (existing and new) diverse formats, protocols and standards.

Get visibility of what's happening
By connecting to Wesupply.com you can get one normalised network view of your entire supply chain, both internal and external. This means you can see exactly when your customers demand is planned to be manufactured, shipped, delivered and installed and when these events actually happen.

Improve Customer Service
By providing visibility into your companies ability to meet your customers demand, you are in the best position to be proactive and anticipate problems which could affect customer service. It also gives you the confidence of knowing that you have done a good job in meeting customer expectation. Wesupply.com also has a range of solutions, from demand planning to automated replenishment, which can be used to plan and execute better internally for improved customer service.

Create new Collaborative Services and offerings
Become more proactive and customer focused by offering new services to help all of your clients. With On Demand collaborative solutions, Wesupply.com can allow you to quickly and reliably extend value added services to your clients which will allow you to improve your own customer service and further differentiate you from your competitors.

Offer your customers differentiated services
By proactively offering Electronic Trading capability,  or by providing online order tracking or inventory visibility, your company can avoid becoming commoditised by your customer which will help you protect your margins and grow your market share.

Wesupply.com On Demand Supply Chain Management is a system for manufacturers, distributors and retailers which allows them to control all aspects of ensuring that their customers receive the goods and service they need.

Wesupply.com provides systems which allow a company to simply connect to its network of trading partners and provide planning and execution solutions which operate across the network without compromising its internal systems. With On Demand Supply Chain Management companies can:

• Control & view inventory levels across a network
• Manage orders between trading partners
• Organise collaborative demand plans
• Plan replenishment across an internal or external network
• Enable Sales and Operation Planning
• Monitor and Alert on significant events

Fundamentally a network approach must recognise the need for trading partners to utilise and leverage their existing investment in their ERP or Enterprise systems which have been carefully selected and implemented to suit the specific requirements of their own organisation. However, a single ERP system cannot be used as a viable network for autonomous companies with disparate requirements.

Wesupply.com On Demand Supply Chain Management enables Closed Loop Network Management which must recognise the trading relationships which exists across the network. In order to close the loop, any solution must provide support for formal business transactions to effect information and physical flow between trading partners.

Wesupply.com Supply Chain Management satisfies these capabilities through its On Demand network architecture. Being powered by its leading edge electronic trading platform, Wesupply.com is unique in its ability to truly enable a Network centric Supply Chain Management solution which synchronises with your ERP system and enables it to interoperate with those of your entire trading network partners.

What are the benefits?

Configurable, easy to use, easy to deploy, On Demand supply chain processes and decision support, focus on delivering quick business benefits for you, your customers and your network trading partners.

By helping companies get closer to their customers Wesupply.com On Demand Supply Chain Management helps companies with increased visibility so that they can become more demand driven and increase revenues and service levels.

By supporting secure collaboration with customers and suppliers, companies can reduce costs, reduce obsolescence and through integrated On Demand execution can increase control, reduce errors and administration and ultimately reduce complexity.

Supply Chain Planning and Execution

On Demand, Intelligent and rapid to deploy supply chain management solutions will be the key to success in todays - and tomorrows - dynamic and challenging Retail world.

With increasing competitive pressures, more demanding consumers and shrinking profit margins, retailers are struggling to maintain growth. Knowing that the future promises uncertainty, it's time for retailers to deploy collaborative supply chain processes that provide the speed and flexibility needed to stand out in a crowded retail marketplace.

Retailers understand well that today's consumers are different from their predecessors; they are more knowledgeable, savvy and demanding. They have access to more information - and know how to use it to their advantage, putting the squeeze on retail prices and profit margins. Every aspect of the business has become a potential target for improvement - workforce effectiveness, store performance or back-office efficiency.

As a result the pace of change has accelerated over the past 5 years - near perfect availability, widespread M&A, global consolidation, a plethora of new products & packaging introductions, overseas sourcing, efficient promotion control and outsourced partnerships. These pressures are going to remain un-changed and will become more intense and will rapidly re-shape the industry.

Only those quick enough to adapt, most efficient and best informed will prosper, or even survive. As such the industry faces many challenges both internally and externally: -

• Customer retention
• Multiple channels to market
• Distributed businesses
• Short lead times
• Smaller but more frequent orders
• Uncertainty of supply and low margins
• Reliance on Category Captain Suppliers

All these characterise an industry in need of optimisation throughout the supply process. By deploying Wesupply.com you can rapidly enable collaborative business processes throughout the supply chain - end to end.

Wesupply.com is a robust and proven On Demand solution available 24x7, 365 days a year around the globe. It is totally scaleable and can be deployed to address simple, focused or complex initiatives. It can be implemented in 90 days, with typical payback in 180 days.

Experience the difference with this new generation of On Demand solution.