Supply Chain Visibility: Integration Through Whole Chain Awareness

If you're serious about creating a world-class supply chain, you need to integrate your information with key data from suppliers, hubs, carriers and customers, so you can see what's happening as it happens. Supply Chain Visibility by Manhattan Associates operates across all of Manhattan's product suites to enable you to see a single, consistent view of your entire global supply chain. Whether you need to know inventory positions or shipment in-transit status, you can rely on Supply Chain Visibility to show you real-time order, inventory and shipment information to make more informed, educated supply chain decisions. This cross-functional view also helps align department goals with the business' overall objectives, as managers can see what's happening in other areas as well.

In today's competitive environment, with suppliers and distribution points spanning the globe, you can't wait for business to resume at a factory in India or delay a recall while someone checks crates for their country of origin. You need to know-now!-whether you have adequate inventory in New York for a promotion or your Internet customers will be told you're out of stock.

Whatever your industry, Supply Chain Visibility will help you:

• Systemically monitor perishables and reduce inventory loss from expired goods
• Reduce costs associated with expedited delivery
• Lower inventory levels and safety stocks
• Enable and optimize direct-shipping channels
• Improve customer service, while raising productivity of customer service representatives
• Achieve faster time-to-market for new products
• Outsource logistics effectively
• Reduce cost of goods sold through drop shipping
• Reduce cost of compliance with custom's "10+2" regulations
• Gain control of Importer Security Filing (ISF) filing process

With user-friendly views, users can quickly access critical supply chain data. Each division, department or user can define how they view and filter entity information. At the same time, you can ensure that everyone is acting on the same information companywide. And, with integration with a variety of other web-based tools, you can even look at inventory across your region and map the location of excess stock or impending shortages. In addition, inventory balances can be leveraged by order management and allocation systems to dynamically distribute inventory through optimal channels and more efficiently meet demand.

Manhattan's Supply Chain Visibility solution can also be leveraged to meet stringent compliance requirements with the Department of Homeland Security's "10+2" customs regulations. With all of the data required for the Importer Security Filing (ISF) already inherent within Supply Chain Visibility, users can now automate the filing of the ISF with the Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP), avoiding costly filing fees which many in the industry are paying to their customs brokers or freight forwarders. Manhattan's Importer Security Filing capabilities include the ability to create the ISF for ocean-bound shipments, transform the data into a CBP required EDI format, capture CBP responses to the filing and track key ISF related events and notifications. Businesses can now take control of the filing process all while leveraging a single version of the truth for all shipment-related visibility information.

Want an even more powerful view of event and performance tracking in your retail supply chain? Explore Manhattan's Supply Chain Event Management and Supply Chain Intelligence solutions.