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Full Service EDI for Amazon Vendor Central

EDI for Amazon Vendor Central More and more suppliers are moving to Amazon vendor Central today. As the order volume for a product increases in Amazon marketplace, Amazon invites the vendor to move to Vendor Central. Advantages of Amazon Vendor Central While seller central is a platform for the sellers to manage their own product sales, Vendor central is a more organized procurement from Amazon. Order volume increases as Amazon promotes the products and sells more volume. Disadvantages of Amazon Vendor Central The main [...]

January 7, 2017 By Srini Raja EDI, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Dynamic Supply Chain

Dynamic Demand Drives Dynamic Supply Chain Dynamic Demand Fluctuation makes the Supply Chain also Dynamic. Companies are pushing the inventory down the lane to suppliers and would like to delay their procurement as late as possible. Many of the large retailers like Amazon, Home Depot are insisting on very short delivery window of 3 days. They expect to procure and ship with in the same week. This is possible in case of retailers who buy finished goods and ship the same without any [...]

December 16, 2016 By Ravi SundarRajan Supply Chain 0 Comments

Electronic Kanban Process Explained

Kanban Kanban is the Just in Time (JIT) concept where two bin signals are used to control inventory consumption and avoid excess inventory buildup. Inventory is replenished only after consumption. This is a controlled process of inventory management using Pull rather than push. Kanban two bin system Normally, Kanban process is very successful for suppliers located at a nearby distance. Setting up Kanban Process Card Setup Process Items and suppliers selected for Kanban will have fixed quantity redemption. This is called card size. For example, [...]

June 15, 2016 By David Inbar E-Kanban 0 Comments

Electronic Kanban (E-Kanban). How Does it Work?

Kanban Two Bin E-Kanban System Kanban is a Just in Time (JIT) manufacturing system introduced by Japanese manufacturing companies to optimize inventory management. The basic principle of Kanban is that “Produce or Order only what is needed and when it is needed” Closed Loop System Kanban is a closed loop system that uses consumption based replenishment instead of forecast based replenishment. Inventory control is achieved by using bin system. Material is stocked in bins and each bin represents one Kanban card. When the [...]

April 4, 2016 By David Inbar E-Kanban 0 Comments

QUICKBOOKS ENTERPRISE AND EDI

EDI Orders and QuickBooks Customer orders are entered in QuickBooks Enterprise as Sales orders. This gives the flexibility to ship them and create invoice in one step. Also, QuickBooks will update inventory when sales orders are shipped. EDI Orders Processing Some of the customers may send invoices through EDI. For example, large customers like Amazon Vendor central, Grainger, Fry’s electronics sends their orders through EDI. There are many ways of handling these orders. One of the process is to receive these orders through [...]

January 21, 2016 By Srini Raja EDI, Uncategorized 0 Comments

SELLING IN AMAZON – PRODUCT LISTING CHALLENGES

One of our customers recently asked us to help them with the process of listing their products in Amazon. They needed the process to be automated as they had close to 15000 products to be listed. The key concepts that we need to understand for listing products in Amazon are Product Key Identifier Product Title Product Manufacturer Product Category Key Words Product Image Product Price On Hand Quantity I’ll explain one by one for the benefit of new sellers who are listing their products. Product Key Identifier This could be the [...]

February 18, 2015 By wp_admin Uncategorized 0 Comments

SUPPLIER ON BOARDING FOR B2B INTEGRATION

Many companies start their B2B Integration initiatives in a big way but never finish like Sagrada Familia project. The main objectives of B2b Integration project will be to get the Purchase Orders, Purchase Order Acknowledgements, Advance Shipment Notifications, Invoicing electronically integrated to Suppliers. This will result the supply chain to be very efficient and manual work of re-keying in data into multiple system is avoided. But this project needs participation and buy-in from the Supplier community. Larger organizations may easily comply [...]

February 18, 2015 By wp_admin Uncategorized 0 Comments

HOW TO MAKE YOUR SUPPLIERS DELIVER ON TIME – ALWAYS!

Every supply chain managers most important task is to ensure the Material is there – where it is needed and when it is needed. Having said that, it is not easy to do it every time right. There are many links in the supply chain and even if one link breaks, the chain breaks. One of the important link is that the supplier delivers on time as needed by the purchasing process. Refer this article that talks about how to motivate [...]

February 18, 2015 By wp_admin Uncategorized 0 Comments

COLLABORATION IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN

Technology today, enhance collaboration in Supply Chain to a great extent A recent trend in the supply chain and collaboration focus on joint planning, coordination and process integration between suppliers, customers and partners in a supply chain, collaboration is meant to overcome the challenges in Supply Chain and has the advantage of faster product output, reduction of production and logistical cost, increase of efficiency as well as maximizing return on investments for all members This is an interaction supported by a [...]

February 18, 2015 By David Inbar Supply Chain 0 Comments

BENEFITS OF SUPPLIER PORTAL

A few of the benefits enabled by the introduction of supplier portals include: Broader Supplier Enablement Portals enabled a new tier of suppliers to automate routine supply chain execution transactions such as purchase orders, ship notices and commercial invoices. EDI had gained a critical mass of usage amongst larger companies. However, smaller businesses often struggled to find the resources, budget and in-house expertise to implement EDI. Portals filled the white space in the market quickly. Anyone with a PC and an [...]

February 18, 2015 By wp_admin Uncategorized 0 Comments