CPG and retail companies are increasingly focusing on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their supply chains to generate competitive advantage.

By using technology to strengthen the integration between customers and suppliers, inflexible supply chains can be transformed into adaptive supply networks delivering benefits such as:

• Improved visibility of demand across the supply chain
• Greater responsiveness
• Reduced inventories
• Reduced working capital
• Better supplier management.

Other innovations have been the introduction of collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) – a process that fully integrates the customer-supplier interface and closes the supply-demand gap. Specialist business-to-business exchanges and retailer portals have also been established and these are helping to bring standardisation and improved connectivity to the industry.

We develop robust eBusiness solutions based around proven B2B integration solutions. This is a fully integrated modular suite covering a wide range of integration options from traditional electronic data interchange (EDI), through webEDI to marketplace connectivity. It includes a pre-configured CPG solution and a wide choice of standard interfaces.

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