- 1. Deploy the Right Type of Supply Chain Control Tower
- (Supply)
- ... across internal and external supply chain processes and milestones. Furthermore, it focuses on sales and purchase orders, inventory across internal and external suppliers, maintenance and repair, and manufacturing. ...
- 2. Organizational Structures of Supply Chains Matter
- (Supply)
- ... items from one another form a basic supply chain. This results in a series of relationships, and the lead company manages the process of issuing and processing purchase orders on demand. The definition ...
- 3. New Tech Is Helping Lower Inventory Levels Across The Supply Chain
- (Logistics)
- ... offers increased transparency and allows consumers to quickly access and manage purchase orders (PO’s). With the right technology in place, the end-user will get their new high-value product delivered ...
- 4. What’s Cloud Got To Do With It?
- (Integration)
- ... they received before the trading partner on the other end of the transaction logged in and collected their orders. One of the advantages was that the companies creating purchase orders could upload their ...
- 5. Everything Is In the Cloud - Except for B2B transactions
- (Technology)
- ... variety of document types that can’t easily be unified. They include written documents for product ideas, spreadsheets for costing, emails with vendors, faxes, and eventually purchase orders for parts ...
- 6. Is SaaS Based EDI a Cloud Service?
- (Technology)
- ... EDI Cloud Plays Companies rely on EDI to exchange critical and time-sensitive business documents such as purchase orders, material releases, invoices, and shipping notices. This leaves little time for ...
- 7. How Much Does an EDI Transaction Cost?
- (EDI)
- ... exchanged via EDI (versus manual, paper transactions) the savings is $1. That may not seem like much, but it adds up quickly, especially for a small business. If there are 1,000 purchase orders handled, ...
- 8. How's Your Trading Partner Meeting Working Out
- (Management)
- ... still miss out on percentage points of their billings as deductions for defects: orders delivered outside loading-dock windows, shipments that don't match current purchase orders, loss through damage or ...
- 9. ERP and EDI integration make for better everything
- (Integration)
- ... Inc., there are benefits of integrating an entity’s ERP with EDI. “It reduces human errors. If humans are typing everything into invoices, purchase orders, etc., errors are likely,” says Porter, adding, ...
- 10. The Unnecessary Costs Of EDI Document Errors
- (EDI)
- Purchase orders and a cacophony of other documents and forms that comprise your supply chain are the lifeblood of transporting your goods from suppliers to your customers. Fortunately, those documents ...
- 11. Procurement Top Performers
- (News)
- Everyone wants to be the best, right? What's that mean when we're talking about procurement? In a Spend Matters article, Marisa Brown of APQC looks at the metrics and what they mean with respect to procurement ...
- 12. Eliminating Purchase Orders?
- (News)
- On the Business2Community site, Auke Hylarides poses an interesting question about the need to actually enter purchase orders. Can direct communication into your system from your customer's MRP a possibility?Auke ...
- 13. True Happiness in the Supply Chain
- (Supply)
- ... its purchase orders. Really, there are few things that can lose their value faster than fresh foods. As Sinur explains, the company was using a series of ERP systems that segmented the data into separate ...
- 14. The Supply Chain IS Big Data
- (Management)
- ... of big data. Certainly all those purchase orders, ASNs, and invoices constitute a lot of data passing between organizations, but that's not the end of the line. The chain of data can be seen to start with ...
- 15. We Won't Get Fooled Again - The Replacement of ED
- (Management)
- ... the entire need for the X12 spec, as purchase orders generated by ERP systems move to a central repository and are then moved to the receiving company's ERP system without multiple translations. I believe ...
- 16. Automate to Reduce Your Supply Chain Costs
- (Blogs)
- ... and faxing purchase orders to some subset of your supplier base. Here are questions to help identify pinch points that could benefit from additional automation: Are you ‘100% electronic’ on your ...
- 17. Am I doing EDI correctly?
- (Blogs)
- ... If you’re only using EDI to process outgoing purchase orders, consider expanding into receiving invoices, sending payment notices, sending shipping notices, etc. The value of EDI is best appreciated when ...
- 18. Let's End Manual Data Entry
- (EDI)
- OK, you’ve survived the latest challenge from your major customer, complying with their mandate to receive electronic purchase orders and send electronic invoices and ship notices. It wasn’t easy, but ...
- 19. Labeling Still a Barrier in Some Areas
- (Supply)
- ... workers take a “sneaker net” approach to getting purchase orders out: Someone plugs a USB drive into a computer, copies the information then walks down the hall and plugs it into another computer to remove ...
- 20. Sharing Data Delivers Success
- (Integration)
- ... purchase orders, advance ship notices (ASNs) and other transactions to ensure they could support Anna’s electronic trading requirements. And Anna’s is growing its e-commerce and drop-ship business, ...
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