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glovia.com Supplier Portal Improves Materials Management To Help Manufacturers and Their Suppliers Meet End-Customer Demand
New Functionality Increases Visibility, Eases Sharing of Critical Information, and Enables Superior Collaboration Capabilities
Long Beach, Calif., May 23, 2005 - Glovia International, a subsidiary of Fujitsu and a leading provider of extended ERP solutions for engineer-to-order and high volume manufacturers, announced today, from the 2005 Glovia International User Group Conference in Long Beach, California, the availability of glovia.com Supplier Portal, a new module that helps manufacturers and their suppliers overcome disconnected supply chain challenges to successfully meet end-customer demand.
Supplier Portal is a real-time, browser-based solution enabling manufacturers to reduce costs and meet customer demand more effectively by improving the level of collaboration, information visibility, and communication with suppliers. The solution provides both manufacturers and suppliers with a unified, real-time view of critical order and materials management activities to ensure their entire extended supply chain is working from the most current information possible.
Each time a user logs onto the portal, they see an easily searchable performance dashboard indicating the status of critical activities including open orders, overdue shipments, shipments due over the next several days, order changes requiring acknowledgement and re-order point requirements. The solution helps manufacturers improve communications as it enables them to not only create and publish customizable messages to their suppliers but also ensure that their suppliers have read their messages by establishing dates by which a supplier must acknowledge or respond to the message.
Supplier Portal helps manufacturers and their suppliers streamline shipping and materials receipts in a number of ways:
- Eliminates discrepancies between ordered and received items
- Prevents early shipments from suppliers
- Reduces excess inventory levels
- Eliminates unexpected receipts, such as late, partial, and unknown shipments
- Accelerates material receipt process
- Eliminates material receipt data entry errors
Supplier Portal also helps manufacturers manage inventory levels throughout their supply chain and execute advanced materials management strategies. The portal supports Kanban materials management by providing manufactures with an electronic trigger to request items from suppliers. The solution provides users with visibility into Kanban items including stockroom and bin location, established min/max levels, current quantity, and call off/requested quantity. Supplier portal also enables supplier managed inventory strategies, including consigned inventory, as it provides suppliers visibility into manufacturers' contractually mandated inventory levels.
"Supplier Portal provides manufacturers with a flexible tool that can be used throughout the supply chain regardless of the technical sophistication of their suppliers to help meet end-customer demand," states Randy Ehler, Executive Vice President, Research & Development and Products for Glovia International. "By putting manufacturers in closer contact with their suppliers, supply and demand can be more easily synchronized to strengthen and automate business processes and improve the complex flow of materials from suppliers."
Additional Manufacturer Capabilities
- View order confirmations
- View the latest status of any shipment - prepared, shipped (with ship date), and the confirmed expected arrival date from the supplier
- Add and view notes
Additional Supplier Capabilities
- Search for shipments due (by exception type, late orders, item numbers, supplier item number, order type, and order number)
- Accept or cancel orders or order cancel notices
- Confirm order will be delivered to manufacturer by required date or provide best possible delivery date
- Split deliveries, if required
- Create pack slips
- Add and view notes
- Update and maintain user profile
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About Glovia International
Glovia International, Inc., a subsidiary of Fujitsu (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 6702), is one of the world's most experienced and solidly backed providers of extended ERP solutions for businesses of any size - from small and mid-sized companies to global enterprises. The powerful and flexible Glovia ERP suite, glovia.com, provides for the unique needs of engineer-to-order, make-to-order, high volume and mixed-mode manufacturing environments through comprehensive, end-to-end functionality for the entire product lifecycle. Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., Glovia has helped manufacturers to cut costs, improve productivity, and meet customer demands for over 30 years. For more information, please visit www.glovia.com or call (800) 223-3799.
About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting device technologies, highly reliable computing and communications platforms, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.7 trillion yen (US$44.5 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005. For more information, please see: http://www.fujitsu.com
