Supply Chain Management

Common Business Issues We Can Solve:

To minimize inefficiencies and maximize value, business processes and knowledge must be shared not only across a company, but also across supply chain partners. Procurement, design, sourcing, planning, manufacturing, and purchasing organizations must work together, not function independently.

Shared access to centralized data is the key to achieving and strengthening the maximum benefit from supplier relationships. Without shared data, supply chain partners and companies simply can't realize the promised value of technology investments, or support effective, cross-functional decision making and internal analysis and optimization capabilities.

Organizations like yours often seek to build what is called a glass pipeline to accomplish these objectives:

Gain control on the volumes of data within the supply chain · Find an easier way to manage product descriptions, data formats, syndication channels, and other internal and external product requirements, despite large numbers of existing, new, and obsolete SKUs · On the buy-side, achieve complete and accurate product content for critical initiatives such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Master Data Management (MDM), Product Data Management (PDM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and procurement. Clean, structured, dependable data supports better management of all the resources involved in making, specifying, buying, and moving products. · On the sell-side, achieve complete and accurate product content for Customer Relationship Management (CRM), B2B commerce activities, print catalog publishing, and inventory management. A hard-value product content initiative enables both content and processes that will drive transactions and support relationships. · Ensure product information conforms to disparate applications and formats throughout the enterprise and beyond-and is capable of supporting needs from back-end content repositories to Internet content. Multiple data types must be accessible both internally and externally.

Common Obstacles we can overcome:

· No single source of unified data or parts information · Informal or fragmented corporate data governance standards · Systems have not unified data standards · Prolific use of spread sheets by individual sourcing professionals · Silos of spend & sourcing data stored in corporate legacy systems

It All Boils Down To This:

You need a unified data source that driving down costs, reducing inventory, and enhancing purchasing mechanics. ByteManagers can make it happen…we'll help you see your data deliver

ByteManagers' Common Bundled Solutions:

Data and Content

ByteManagers will work closely with your team to develop reliable, custom data and content solutions, including:

· Data Usability and Data Quality Diagnostics & Assessment · Data Integration Services · Data Standards and Schema Development · Procurement Catalog · Managed Services: Supplier Relations Management · Managed Services: Price File Synchronization

Document Management

ByteManagers' experts will also establish dependable, customized document management solutions, including:

· Digitization of supplier catalogs and content · Data extraction from paper, images or film · PDF conversions, OCR conversion and clean up · XML, SGML and HTML coding