What is e-SupplyChain?

• e-SupplyChain is a supply chain management solution that allows organizations to collaborate with their supply chain partners in real-time through the RosettaNet standards for trade management and tracking

• The supply chain solution is an enterprise middleware and communications solution for trade management and tracking. It provides the platform to effectively manage data exchanges between trading partners and an organizationís internal business applications.

• The supply chain solution is a Business Process Management Solution that enables suppliers and manufacturers in all industries to trade with their supply chain partners using the RosettaNet standards for data exchange.

• The solution allows organizations to generate and distribute data in a secure RosettaNet format, which can then be deciphered, and accessed using specially constructed user views.

What can e-SupplyChain do for organizations?

• The solution will enable forecast and order management as well as finance collaboration between supply chain partners

• The solution can already help you to save time and money by not having to create your own trade engine for your suppliers, as TM provides you a ready-made total solution. You can have further savings by having TM host the service for you.

• TM will offer this service allowing you to concentrate on your business, while TM takes care of any technology changes or updates for you.

What does Telekom Malaysia Berhad provide to help me get connected to e-SupplyChain?

• TM provides Internet broadband access hosting facilities, e-commerce and application services for the supply chain platform to enable the intelligent supply chain.

• TM will host the RosettaNet-enabled supply chain solution through its online service provider, Netmyne. The solution will link to suppliers using highly secure RosettaNet messages across the Internet.

• Besides hosting and applications, TM also offers you a one-stop solution and service by being able to bundle in computers and the necessary tools and applications that you need to help you get connected.

• As for Internet connections, TM you multiple ways of getting online, such as with streamyx or tmnet direct.

Is the platform secure enough?

• In all data exchanges secure communication is essential. In the Trade Engine security is ensured through the use of digital keys. Key encryption allows the parties involved in the exchange to data in a secure manner.

• The use of digital certificates through the Public key interface allows seamless secure communication. Once a Trade Agreement has been set up between two parties they can request a certificate, issuing each party with a key. The key is a sequence of characters unique to each party for communication only between the two parties.

• The data exchanged would be locked through the first party's key and then only unlocked by the second party. In addition to key technology firewalls are also used to protect the electronic exchange.

What is included with the subscription?

The subscription gives you access to the e-SupplyChain modules that you have subscribed to.  Maintenance and product support during standard business hours is also included. 

What are the benefits of using the e-SupplyChain solution?

The benefits of e-SupplyChain in an increasingly competitive environment include real-time information synchronization within an organization, between procurement and production and finance and also with trading partners.; the ability to collaborate, assess and co-ordinate from remote locations; and perhaps most importantly, tremendous savings in a most precious commodity ‚ time and increased productivity, efficiency and profitability.

What are the features and benefits of e-SupplyChain?

 Features

• Schedule and manage all material deliveries into a factory or manufacturing plant
• Focus on purchasing
• Increase communications flow
• Total visibility within your inbound supply chain
• Integration of communications with trade partner
• Ease of invoicing and payment process
• Real-Time Communication of business critical data
• Global visibility of all inventory, be it vendor managed, in transit, in house or hub inventory
• Centralization of data
• User-friendly design
• Streamlining of business processes
• Ease of implementation due to 'layer on top' design
• Reduce material procurement Lead Time 

Business Benefits 

• Improved forecast
• Real-Time notice of change in demand allowing a company to quickly respond to changes in demand
• Avoidance of obsolete inventory
• Reduction in material cost due to earlier visibility of sales orders
• Greater responsiveness to needs of major customer
• Improves cash flow
• Lower stock holding
• Reduces inventory on hand
• Reduces inventory write offs
• Highly secure communication of critical commercial information
• Cost-effective linkage between supply chain partners

What are the advantages of using e-SupplyChain?

Other than all the benefits covered earlier the advantage of subscribing to e-SupplyChain is that you will get a whole solution.  We are able to provide all the infrastructure, software, hardware and know-how to get you using e-SupplyChain in weeks rather than months or years.

What is the system requirement for e-SupplyChain?

They include Pentium 4 server and an SQL database with Streamyx broadband connection.

What platform(s) does the solution run on?
On NT.

Is e-SupplyChain Open hardware compliant?
Yes

What Platform would you recommend to those on a low budget?
We offer special packages to suit all types of organizations.

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