SERVICES OFFERED [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In addition to manufacturing services; Engineering design assistance, process qualification and validation, prototype fabrication, assembly, testing, clean room manufacturing, dock to stock, supplier managed inventory, kanban programs and pFEMEA.
Capabilities like permission-based inventory visibility, adaptive fulfillment, exceptions management, multi-warehouse inventory planning and distribution are especially well suited for companies and their 3PL providers who need to support supplier managed inventory or pull-based customer replenishment.
The Crossgate service extensions allow companies to quickly respond to upcoming business demands to integrate a new supplier or replace an existing trading partner for scenarios such as multi location visibility, forecast collaboration, supplier managed inventory or production progress reporting, without costly and labor-intensive change management or time and material integration projects.
Supplier portal also enables supplier managed inventory strategies, including consigned inventory, as it provides suppliers visibility into manufacturers' contractually mandated inventory levels.
Combining the connection between W3Net and Pantellos with the W3Net Supplier Managed Inventory Module (SMI), Cox Industries can now successfully and efficiently replenish distribution poles for FirstEnergy in multiple locations across the United States through a completely electronic process that simultaneously updates its inventory management system.
World Wide Wood Network(TM) also brings functional tools to the industry such as Supplier Managed Inventory for program sales and consignment distribution, data translation between disparate back office systems and a robust electronic document exchange platform.
The i2 solution is designed to increase visibility all along the supply chain and also includes plans to use supplier managed inventory processes to reduce inventory levels.
According to Lou van Dyk, IT Manager for World Wide Wood Network(TM), "Utilizing best of class technologies and a J2EE development environment, we have created a Trading Network Platform that integrates our flexible, yet secure, W3Net(TM) Document Exchange Platform with the robust functionality of our Commerce Platform and Supplier Managed Inventory Module.
