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Supply Chain Management
Creating an efficient, responsive supply chain linking
all customers, suppliers, factories, warehouses, distributors,
carriers and other trading partners is the challenge.
Read how RippleImpact manages this challenge of Supply
Chain Management.
Case Study 1:
Client:
The client is a Fortune 500 company in the pharmaceutical
industry.
Challenge:
The distribution functions of the company were done
manually. This resulted in inefficient distribution;
with some retail outlets have an oversupply, and others
a shortage. In addition, the company had difficulty
anticipating demand for its products as a whole, and
had unnecessary production and inventory costs.
Solution:
We recommended an Inventory Management System including
modules for Inventory Management; Order Tracking;
Shipment Tracking and Distribution; and a Work Flow
module to tie everything together.
Benefits:
1. Real time information on inventory, orders, and
distribution greatly improved the distribution of
the products to distributors.
2. Implementation of the work flow meant that information
on inventory and orders reached distribution and production
groups in real time, greatly improving the ability
to anticipate demand, and the reducing unnecessary
inventory costs.
Case Study 2:
Client:
The client deals with import/export of international
products and has to deal with the paper works for
their shipments and the calculations of the rates
taxes and shipment charges etc and also getting the
approval of the concerned country from where they
have to import or export the products.
Challenge:
Globalization is becoming a reality as technology
has reduced costs and opened new markets. Yet eBusiness
initiatives have revealed how ill equipped companies
are to navigate the maze of cross-border trade. Mass
production has given way to mass customization. Production
and sales are being dispersed around the world to
take advantage of lower costs and higher margins.
In the US, exports are growing in dollar terms, and
the number of shipments is increasing even faster-clear
evidence that a build-to-order fulfillment model is
replacing the expensive practice of holding inventory
in every market. For just-in-time fulfillment to succeed,
buyers, suppliers, and supply chain specialists must
be able to share information quickly. Buyers want
to know immediately when an item can be delivered
and what it will cost including freight, taxes and
duties. And immediately is now. After a four second
wait, half the potential online buyers will leave
a Web site.
Solution:
Harmonized Tariff System (HTS) states that the critical
component required to calculate international customs
duties and taxes is a product's classification. Many
suppliers will not provide this information about
their products in their catalogs.
The client application places up-to-date information
about cross-border costs and trade requirements in
the hands of decision makers at the moment the decision
is being made. Whether it is a sales rep closing an
order, a buyer comparing new sources of supply, or
a strategic planner analyzing where manufacturing
or distribution centers should be located.
Benefits:
The client application is designed to allow buyers,
suppliers, or marketplaces to quickly and easily import
and maintain custom transportation rates. Many domestic
transportation rates are based on carrier-specific
zones, often with add-on charges for door delivery.
It is designed exclusively for suppliers or marketplaces
those who want to classify a large number of items
according to the HTS. Traditionally, companies spent
days - often weeks - communicating with their suppliers
and customs brokers to determine the HTS classification
of an item.
Case Study 3:
Client:
The clients are in the insurance sectors. Companies
who deal with health and dental insurances, as well as brokers
and individuals.
Challenge:
All operations like the communications between the
brokers and the insurance agents and the clients involves
a lot of paper works and a lot of communications and
also the confusion in calculation of the rates depending
on the geographical locations and other factors.
Solution:
The client is a leading provider of Internet based,
business-to-business solutions that enable e-commerce
in the approximately $2.8 trillion global insurance
industry. The client's software applications and professional
services offerings are designed to meet the evolving
needs of carriers, distributors and buyers of insurance.
It's technologies leverage the power of the Internet
to streamline and automate the insurance distribution
process to facilitate end-to-end transaction processing.
Benefits:
- Real-time Internet-based quotes and proposals
- Plan filtering and sorting capabilities
- Persistent, retrievable group quoting information
- Census import functionality
- Health Plan tools for real time access control
and reporting
- Carrier resources including collaterals and forms
- Professional branded proposals, that can be personalized
by the broker/agent and accessed in PDF or HTML
formats
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