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Building a strong supply chain is essential for business success. But when it comes to improving supply chains, few companies take the right approach. Many businesses work to make their chains faster or more cost-effective, assuming that those steps are the keys to competitive advantage. To the contrary: Supply chains that focus on speed and costs tend to deteriorate over time. Only companies that build supply chains that are agile, adaptable and aligned get ahead of their rivals.

Hau L. Lee, A Triple-A Supply Chain, Harvard Business Review on Supply Chain Management

Inovis’ Professional Services Operational EDI Assessment offering analyzes your existing EDI program and identifies opportunities for improved agility; better response time and accuracy when dealing with abrupt changes in the market, adaptability – meeting your customer needs and focusing on a solutions rather than obstacles and defining processes that align with your organization, as well as identifying cost-savings and operational improvements.

• Inovis’ Operational EDI Assessment service assists you in establishing optimal supply chain communication practices to ensure your company’s infrastructure is operating at maximum efficiency and is flexible enough to serve the ever-changing demands of your clients and trading partners.
• You benefit from best practices derived from previous customer implementations and over 20 years of expertise delivering our products and services to over 20,000 companies encompassing a wide range of industries and markets across the globe.

How it works…

• We start by reviewing the current overall business operation as it relates to Supply Chain communication. We look for areas of improvement as well as develop Best Practice scenarios as they relate to your organization.
• We will interview key senior management and Supply Chain team members to discuss organizational challenges and evaluate your organizations flexibility in today’s competitive market. (Are you able to effectively handle abrupt changes to Supply Chain demands?)
• We review your current EDI software implementation (Hardware, Capacity Planning, Software Implementation, Integration to back-end application, Backup procedures) and provide feedback regarding scalability and overall system optimization.
• We review and gather information regarding existing EDI transactions for improved processing and less error handling; as well as review current processes for maintaining and adding new Trading Partners
• We then prepare documentation to baseline the current state of your Supply Chain program, the desired state and document the gaps; and we address the needs of your organization to align with your company’s interests and goals accordingly.
• We then conclude by conducting an “analysis debrief” session at assessment’s conclusion.

Inovis Professional Services’ Operational EDI Assessment offering leverages our expertise to analyze your existing Supply Chain program and help you identify areas to enable your organization to be more flexible, adaptable and provide more cohesive alignment to your organizational and supply chain needs.