SCT and alliance of form of G-Notation for the logistics of collaboration in the processing industries

SCT (www.sct.com/manufacturing) and the G-Notation (www.g-log.com), the two chiefs in their respective fields announced an association which gathers SCT 'planning, and optimization of manufacture of processing industry of S execution, with the G-Notation 'the total platform of logistics of S. association is the manufacturers and the distributors of processes aimed in food, the drink, chemicals, the CPG, the pharmaceutical one, biotechnology, and related processing industries in the whole world. The two companies currently have the impressive lists customers in these industries using their solutions. The G-Notation the 'customers of S include Eastman Chemical, Dupont, and International of Kimball. SCT 'customers of S include the Coke, Kroger, Cargill, and American foods basic.

Typically, the processing industries have the robust needs for logistics due to the nature of transported materials. These materials tend to being cumbersome, heavy and to have often special conditions like environmental requests, the shelf life or exits of standardization. Many companies of process are total in kind and the boat using a series of modes (truck, barge, ocean freight, etc) complicating their management further from logistics needs. This association satisfies these needs by the expansion for SCT the 'solution for S iProcess.sct by improving the service and the effectiveness of distribution, whereas seen real constraints of transport.

The platform of logistics of G-Notation supports the process mission-critical of controlling all freight, everywhere in the world, an environment multi-customer, by incorporating the domestic and international components traditional of transport in a simple system. It provides planning, optimization, the visibility, the order, and the payment of forwardings and the orders. SCT 's iProcess.sct, is a solution specific to the industry of process which provides the planning of chain of provisioning, the trade of Internet, the management of the network of report/ratio, and the possibilities of the chain of provisioning execution/ERP. The products of SCT provide possibilities of collaboration of optimization of distribution and network of chain of provisioning. Together, these products will help of the companies of process to optimize decisions of manufacture, distribution and transport based on precise information in real-time their networks of logistics.

MacClaren darcies, principal vice-president, development of the businesses, the states of G-Notation, of us believe that the combined solution will make it possible companies to collaborate indeed with their suppliers, to improve the service to the customers, and to answer the market appropriatenesses more quickly.

With the addition of the solutions of G-Notation, SCT can bring a full continuation of the solutions of planning and execution of chain of provisioning to the processing industries, extending from planning from network and the design and the company envisaging all the manner of planting to the bottom the execution of establishment of the program and transport states Jim Brown, the strategy of solutions of VP and marketing.

The growth of the solutions suitable for industry or verticals continues the development, acquisitions and associations internal. The definition of has total solution continues to evolve/move. With this association, the processing industries have a widened definition of what is possible.

Many suppliers continue to continue the processing industries with mitigated results. These suppliers concentrated exclusively on the processing industries seem to raise their solutions towards more an adapted big industry. More generalized solutions, those were sold with many industries including/understanding the process, will find the needs clean with industry difficult to satisfy in the constraints of their applications of universal use.

orting outside players of E-Logistics Part: New solutions

The fundamental promise of the e-business is to authorize the customer. In transport, logistics and other behind the scenes aspects of the e-business, the new services and the possibilities start to achieve this promise, not simply for companies of Fortune 500 but for the small ones and average companies and those with conditions specialized as well. These solutions extend from e-gistics bidding and gone, by tools of software and support available above the Internet, including a new whole category of the operators of logistics of Internet.

This article describes some of the last developments in this fast field, and provides the bottom and the framework to help of the better companies to include/understand the alternatives available to them today and to identify them that the approaches provide their to the greatest value.



Armed with Juste a mouse and a web browser, the companies and the consumers can now reach an almost unlimited choice of the products and services, compare prices and devices on a basis in real-time, and carry out transactions almost instantaneously. In much of industries, this increased competition helped to tighten lowered inefficiencies, prices outside, and indeed levelled the playing field for small types - small medium-sized companies and the various consumers - who previously did not have the hour or the resources to reach manually the full capacity of the market. Now they can employ the Internet with indeed selection and to choose which the best meets their needs.

Sour, you the 'VE sold it, but now you must embark it and deliver. What the services and methodologies are they available to help the gathering of shippers these challenges of e-business?

The companies of Fortune 500 a long time used a series of approaches to help them to gain a competitive advantage by their chains of provisioning and satisfying needs of customer. But much of traditional approaches is expensive and simply out of reach for the majority of the companies. What 's new is that the e-business brings transport and the services and the possibilities of logistics which are available to each one - large and of small size and help of this fact to achieve the true promise of the e-business.

As in the majority of the other segments of the economy, with many companies of starting of transport and logistics emerged to improve the process to bring together purchasers and salesmen to carry out various transactions. Compared with the contractual solutions covered in the part two, those do not imply any long-term engagement and are low largely cost and - available for companies of any form and cuts to employ.

While some of these services of market are had or supported by carriers of transport, the hope is that they do not transport really any product themselves. Rather it is intermediaries and transmitters of information which helps to improve competitiveness of the market. Many also provides the services of support and the tools software which help of the users to better control their activities of transport and logistics - as substitute product to a certain extent for most complete of the systems TI discussed in the part two.

The beam available e-gistics intermediate of compromise support falls into three primary education types:

  * Exchanges and bidding of freight. Historically if you must embark the product of your place of New Jersey to a new customer in Oregon, you had to identify the carriers which serve this market, come into contact with them each one by the telephone to describe your needs, to await the price and to maintain the quotations, check their references, and then choose one of them to handle your forwarding - a long process and often handbook. Many various carriers established their Web own sites, naturally, but the access of them one by is a long process and does not do anything to increase the competitiveness of the global market. Using transportation.com, GoCargo.com or much of others you can now write your conditions on line and then simultaneously to receive price quotation of a certain number of participating carriers, to make your choice, and publish the buying order, all on a fast and easy electronic basis.

  * Transport and gone and aggregators of logistics. These approaches with the e-business make improvements in transport and logistics by the easy offer of access, all in a place, for the viewing and the use of the predetermined rates of a series of carriers. Rather than using an approach in real-time to decide which carrier will obtain which forwarding and at which price, and all the variation from day to day, services such that the national exchange of transport and freightquote.com facilitate purchases of comparison and the choice and the use continuous of the carriers at the preset prices.

  * Suppliers of technology of improvement of process. In certain cases, versions of the systems of technology information of e-business and the tools traditionally used by companies of Fortune 500 are developed with the use of smaller and more specialized companies. The newcomers such as Arzoon and Celarix are building virtual departments of forwarding by the Internet, with practical processes and possibilities made right available on the desktop machines of computer of the customers. These new offers can help of the companies with a range of practices of day in day of activities and decision making to improve the transport and the process of logistics, and include in much case the biddings or the functions of market described above.

Being given strongly reduced nature in fragments of the market of transport, those manufacture of the market and mechanisms of improvement of process offers the significant potential for the increasing effectiveness and of the costs of reduction. While reaching a range of carriers and by implying a broader whole of customers, and then by establishing the evaluation on a more competing basis - they can finally perhaps achieve the promise of e-business to authorize the customer.

In order to be succeeded, however, they will have to attract a great volume of carriers and shippers, so that they provide a competitive market which really has like consequence the lower evaluation and with the broad geographical insurance. Moreover, since these services do not handle real freight or do not take the responsability for forwarding, of the separate ultrieuux are necessary with each carrier covering the myriad of exits dependent on the invoicing, the insurance, the damage, the visibility of statute of forwarding, the proof of the delivery, and others. Moreover, they do not handle the other services which a shipper can need to be entirely succeeded - as to store the space and the inventory control, and specialized activities of realization of order.

To sort the players of E-Logistics Part: Traditional solutions

The fundamental promise of the e-business is to authorize the customer. In transport, logistics and other behind the scenes aspects of the e-business, the new services and the possibilities start to achieve this promise, not simply for companies of Fortune 500 but for the small ones and average companies and those with conditions specialized as well. These solutions extend from e-gistics bidding and gone, by tools of software and support available above the Internet, including a new whole category of the operators of logistics of Internet.

This article describes some of the last developments in this fast field, and provides the bottom and the framework to help of the better companies to include/understand the alternatives available to them today and to identify them that the approaches provide their to the greatest value.

No wonder whereas so many new e-gistics companies wrote ravelled material with offers of various kinds to address the situations covered in the part one. Queest this that meet your needs better, particularly if you are smaller or specialized the needs? Moreover smaller and average companies must look at two primary education kinds of questions:



  * Which type of solutions do they offer? Contractual solutions which comprise decisions multi-year and sometimes, substantial capital, against the compromise approaches which provide the value on more bases virtual a-situation-with-a-time, with the minimal investment.

  * Which kinds of companies provide the solutions? The solutions offered by the intermediaries and others which concentrate on the improvements of processes and best transport and logistical support, against the direct solutions offered by the companies which take really the responsability for transport, of storage, and of the realization of order



The following table describes these dimensions and the service types offered in each category. The discussion which follows will address each one of these categories and will provide examples of and/or traditional suppliers of e-gistics solution.

The remarkable problems in the part one are not new for the majority of the companies. Fortune 500 and other large companies in particular devoted the substantial effort to address them above these last years, by improvements of process and direct services of supplier.

The principal techniques and the resources of improvement of processes which were devoted to these of the exits of transport and logistics include:



  * Software and systems TI to handle a range of principal decisions of transport and logistics, very covering to determine the most profitable truck, the air, the rail or the sea routes to employ; networks of place of warehouse and routings of the products of linearization through the country or around the world; and providing the visibility and the advance of forwardings while they are in transit.

  * Consulting services in management to help of the companies to apply practical and to improve, often more rationalized, process to handle the inventory, products of forwarding, and to achieve orders, including the manufacture of the best use of the software above, and

  * Development interns of personnel and infrastructure, evolution of the possibilities and the expertise of their departments of transport and logistics, and to give them a broader responsibility to an executive level.

What these approaches do they have in common? They all require of a substantial engagement of the resources and one multiannual period of time to apply - and the majority of the smallest and specialized companies have neither money nor the hour to use them indeed.

There also were significant efforts to improve transport and logistics directly by the companies of haulage, the warehouses, and other players of industry who move and handle freight:



  * Porteur contracts core which employ the power of volume to obtain a better evaluation of a handle of selected suppliers of transport in exchange for a promise than they will obtain to move the major part of the company of 'freight of S and to carry out the effectiveness which justifies the discounted rates which are provided.

  * Equipment and distribution networks, basically new construction, realignment and expansion or closing of the warehouses to meet the needs changing for the shippers 'user base in the most effective way.

  * Activities of transport and logistics of provisioning outside which are not competences of core to the companies of the logistics of thirds (3PL) which provide the complete range of the personnel, the systems TI, the equipment and the contracts of carriage, and the equipment of distribution, to meet a customer 's.A. need.

Still, these approaches are most effective so that the companies of Fortune 500 which have the rag of the market to lead a better evaluation, and the money draws the attention of storage, 3PL and other suppliers

To sort the players of E-Logistics Part: The situation

The fundamental promise of the e-business is to authorize the customer. In transport, logistics and other behind the scenes aspects of the e-business, the new services and the possibilities start to achieve this promise, not simply for companies of Fortune 500 but for the small ones and average companies and those with conditions specialized as well. These solutions extend from e-gistics bidding and gone, by tools of software and support available above the Internet, including a new whole category of the operators of logistics of Internet.

This article describes some of the last developments in this fast field, and provides the bottom and the framework to help of the better companies to include/understand the alternatives available to them today and to identify them that the approaches provide their to the greatest value.

About this note: It is a note in three parts. The part one covers the current location with regard to transport and logistics. The part two discusses the traditional solutions. Solutions of covers of the part the three news conceived to address today 'environment in the course of evolution of e-business of S.

Armed with Juste a mouse and a web browser, the companies and the consumers can now reach an almost unlimited choice of the products and services, compare prices and devices on a basis in real-time, and carry out transactions almost instantaneously. In much of industries, this increased competition helped to tighten lowered inefficiencies, prices outside, and indeed levelled the playing field for small types - small medium-sized companies and the various consumers - who previously did not have the hour or the resources to reach manually the full capacity of the market. Now they can employ the Internet with indeed selection and to choose which the best meets their needs.

The manufacture of the purchases, if clicking on a choice of book starting from the Amazon or leading a bidding to provide the industrial gadgets, was the center of the e-business up to now. What occurs in the slides while treating orders, products of forwarding, storage and the mobile inventory, and the relative activities is a mystery with the majority among us - a mystery which comprises approximately $1 trillions in today the 'saving in S, almost 10% of the gross domestic product.

Sour, you the 'VE sold it, but now you must embark it and deliver. What the services and methodologies are they available to help the gathering of shippers these challenges of e-business?

The companies of Fortune 500 a long time used a series of approaches to help them to gain a competitive advantage by their chains of provisioning and satisfying needs of customer. But much of traditional approaches is expensive and simply out of reach for the majority of the companies. What 's new is that the e-business brings transport and the services and the possibilities of logistics which are available to each one - large and of small size and help of this fact to achieve the true promise of the e-business.

Of e-gistics bidding and gone, by tools of software and support available above the Internet, and to include a new whole category of the operators of logistics of Internet, this article profiles some of these enthralling new approaches and the assistances which you identify who approach could provide the greatest value for you.

There are few better candidates for the e-business that mysterious and traditional industries of the services of transport and logistics. Are not only they one significant component of the economy, they are particularly ripe for new manners of making deals.

Transport

In spite of all the publicity and visibility day labourer of the parcel deliveries during the night of package, more than 80% of America of the 'freight of S is still embarked by truck. To $500 billion, the transport of truck is the largest simple component of the overall costs of logistics - and has all the characteristics that you 'd want if you seek to build a better trap with valve:



  * User base is large and varied, with more than two million companies which embark products. While the companies of Fortune 500 are the largest shippers, naturally, the small companies and averages which can typically spend say that $1-10 million in transport is a substantial share of the global market. For these shippers, the e-business should help with often the task difficult to find the companies of haulage which can provide the two rates and uniformly superiors quality.

  * The market of provisioning is extremely reduced, with almost 200.000 companies from haulage separated today, 95% of which have less than 25 trucks in their fleet and is useful in fragments of the limited surfaces of the country or the specialized market segments. Using the e-business the techniques should help of the purchasers and salesmen better to be and overall prices on a more competing basis.

  * By some accounts, almost 30% of the miles travelled by these trucks is empty, noncharged with the product on board but to always incur costs for the drivers, gas, and the depreciation. Using the e-business should allow best the set of the offer and the request for a way in which capacity available and reduced fills more effectively of the total costs.

  * The evaluation for the industry of transport, with its long story of payment, always tends to being very complicated, with a series of tariffs and discounts which vary by the distance, the weight, the type of product, the level of the priority, the need of services of speciality such as the unpacking or the installation with the destination, and factors relative. For small companies embarking of the products in amounts of less-that-loading of truck, for example, the evaluation employed a national system of classification of freight of engine which includes more than 10.000 different codes produced and classifications - and generated a whole industry devoted to auditer the conformity of the shippers with the system. Surely the e-business can develop a simpler approach with this whole process.

Were the total commercial suppliers of software of Under-Perform management, but finished the optimistic forecasts?

The Internet allowed a world managed in network. The infrastructures of communication and the incipient applications, added to the total alternatives of approvisonnement clearly opened the door for the international business. Unfortunately, like a direct result of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 on the World Trade Center in New York (US), meticulous examination and safety, not e-business, became the main themes for the total trade today. From here the end of 2001, the customs officers explained that with regard to the border trade, they would not be businesses as usual. Because of the increased security measures, the conformity and the risk management became paramount to safeguard national interests, and the need for flexible systems and processes characterized by management of change which can react to the total commercial payments, developed (see the terrorism of combat with total commercial management for more information).

Consequently, in the months following the attacks of 9/11, the actions in the total commercial pink of companies of management (engine), and the analysts provided that the growth of engine would be double or to triple the income of that of the previous years, probably striking 35% composed annual growth rate (CAGR). Because of the terrorist attacks, suppliers of engine were looked as gaining potential its radioactive fallout, as the software and a technology necessary by shippers who would provide them a tighter order of their business transactions. But while the total total trade increased since 9/11, the incomes of the suppliers of engine only modestly rose, and the benefit are practically non-existent. Thus why this disconnection between the community of analyst the 'exubrance of S towards the growth of supplier of engine and the reality of post 9/11 emerged?
The important obstacles being posed with suppliers of engine before 9/11 always discourage, and some obstacles were really made up by the attacks.

The suppliers of engine belonged much to challenges by selling their software and the services before competition 9/11. was wild among suppliers, costs of starting for the infrastructure of software of engine were high for companies, and the justifications based on the return on investment (KING) of the conformity and other potential reductions of the costs were always evangelic sale makes by suppliers. Moreover, the suppliers always face always with laws changeantes, with commercial payments, rules, and shippers blocked by conditions. These exits continue to fix the total trade creating of the ineffective processes and complexity, delaying the widespread use of the software of engine.

Moreover, the frontier commercial exit of logistics is now also constrained by a shortage of left resources of infrastructure; this also eclipses the potential profits of the software of engine. The containers of forwarding delayed with the important ports like Long Beach, California or New-Orleans, Louisiana (US) due to terrifying time, and increased safety, are not exits that engine can only solve. In the same way, the federal processes of safety of the USA at the borders do not help to reduce of the delays, and in much of case can exasperate them.

Now is the hour so that the important entities of forwarding automate and of their internal systems and processes for the total trade rationalize. Unfortunately, few today of 's packed up the services and the software of multi-company of offer of applications really which automates the needs for management of transport and E-logistics of a total commercial network because they do not answer frontier requirements. The applications based on the WEB of purchase and sell-side are lacking required automated engine, and partnering with a traditional supplier of the logistics of international business (ITL) is only one transitional measure because more software support and of integration is still required.



Today of the commercial applications of S does not address in right automated proportion engine, and it is true of a whole spectrum of software, that it is the software of the planning of entrepreneurial resource (ERP) of the suppliers like SAP and Oracle; software buy and on sell-side of the suppliers like Ariba and trade one; or the software of logistics exchanges to embrace total possibilities like Descartes the total logistic network (GLN). Moreover, however the e-business, international business, and the software of E-logistics are convergent by fusions and acquisitions which can potentially prolong the print of step of engine, that will take time so that they are correctly integrated and will develop synergy.

Given these exits, currently there is no silver plated ball which can approach the many nuances of the total trade. The existing software is only tactical in kind, and must evolve to a full model directed towards the services of application (SOA).
The e-business, international business, and the software of logistics are convergent although fusions and acquisitions to prolong their print of step of engine.

All the solutions should try for Saint Graal in E-logistics: total visibility of the marketing activities through all the modes, on a basis in real-time, in all the chain of provisioning, independently of the implied service provider. However, there are barriers to carry out this:

  * In the world of the ITL, the contents are king, with the conformity and the documentation of the trade being important services.

  * Logistics requires shippers and carriers to communicate and collaborate, and today it is not based most of the time on relationship with notice of long time, not technology.

  * The finance departments and the payment for the total trade was a discrete activity in the organizations of finances and the financial institutions (fi) this lack the direct total data of logistics and acts as still a another service.

  * The majority of the only applications of E-logistics cannot fulfill the requirements of the total trade, because they require security checks of conformity, standardization, and another source.

  * The total trade requires possibilities of execution of logistics like the visibility in real-time of chain of provisioning in order to meet the needs envisaged for the user in the age for Internet.

  * These functions miss convergence and will take considerable time in order to offer effective, chain of provisioning completely prolonged and collaboration.



Acquisitions by JP Morgan Chase box, North America de Vastera, a principal player of engine; TradeBeam Holdings Inc. of Qiva and open port; and Oracle 'acquisition of S of G-Notation created good fodder for the community of analyst espionnant the rapid growth of the market of engine; but, actually, acquisitions made little for the growth and the profitability of the combination of the market. (For more information see amalgamating total commercial management with total finances; and TradeBeam continues to round its regulated engine outside). However, whereas, the recent fusion and the activity of acquisition were not the stimuli for the growth, it brought synergy and to the converged functionality which will profit the software from engine and will encourage future sales. For now, the income of services always exceeds the income of licence in the arena of engine. Finally, the community of analyst the 's high, of the initial hopes of the market of supplier of engine were nonfounded, but thereafter the market will probably develop. Perhaps a calendar of year 3.5 is more realistic while placing hopes about the growth and of the profitability of the market of engine, as federal mandates and of company for the total commercial technology of pushed forwards meeting the safety and the conformity of standardization.

Summary

The approvisonnement total one, the supply, applications based on the WEB of purchase and sale, transport, and the logistics of international business, finance departments, and the Financial Regulation are all the categories of commander of the commercial functionality which are required to satisfy engine 'impressed of step increased by S. the setting clearly went upwards on the conformity and the risk management. At which point a company is prepared for changes of the commercial statutes and payments will affect the costs directly and the effectiveness chains provisioning of company of one 'of S.

Technology Evaluation Centers Inc. is invested in a more detailed examination of the many challenges facing total companies while they look at to increase their total presence. The suppliers of engine and their continuations of technology and functionality which rationalize total commercial processes are a critical part of the uninterrupted effort by the important shippers direct the total commercial labyrinth.

A new model for the suppliers of evaluation of logistics of third: Write orientated architecture towards the services

Strongly - one the competitive market third of logistics (3PL) is broad and various groups companies which move the product above the ground, the air, and the sea, of point by point for Juste approximately each conceivable industry. The companies like the logistics of UPS, Ryder, C.H. Robinson, airborne logistics, cardinal transport, and the logistics of Penske is certain names of a group of more than 200 service providers of logistics in the USA alone. 3PLs is manifestly under the enormous pressure to control costs, while providing a range of services to an increased and various user base. At the same time, the 3PL suppliers must look themselves as directors of process of businesses which can benefit from today of technology in evolution of the management of chain of provisioning of S ('sCM).

The majority of the 3PLs have a significant inventory of the applications to accomodate the provisioning outside process of businesses for services of order, storing, select-pack-embark operations, the checking of the inventory, kitting, the light assembly, transport, the consolidation, the logistics of international business, reversed logistics, and much of other functions to require customers and prospects. Applications of software of Descartes, i2, Manugistics, connection of the WP, interactive top, Nextlinx, as well as a plethora of packages of the management systems of warehouse (WMS) are found as a whole applications.
The companies will stick with what they do the best and externalisent nonfundamental competences with the 3PL. companies

The progressive companies identified that they cannot be all the things with all the people and, consequently, will not externaliseront all except their principal branches of activity with the service providers, who can complete a more effective work for less money. This can create an enormous occasion for these services which provide what them market demands, when the requests are made. While faster goods and services of request of customers and at the lower cost, service providers must be able to integrate technology in existing and of future functions of businesses and to reinvent processes while the request dictates. The service providers must also be able to match hopes changeantes of customer and to answer quickly while the customers need the changes of the processes of businesses. The service providers of logistics matured to become services of the provisioning outside process of businesses of logistics (BPO) for companies wanting to concentrate on competences of core and externaliser of the indirect tasks.
Lower satisfaction replaced the meticulous examination of the 3PL. service providers

The customers require more and want to make sure that they profit from the perceived services their service providers of logistics. The company the personnel of SCM revalues the value of the 3PL suppliers and their capacity at the lower cost and maintains availability ratios. The management of logistics within the companies also question 3PL the suppliers capacity to be flexible, innovating, and to make use of newer, more effective technology. But the companies are short-sighted if they look at only with the option of provisioning outside for specific functions of logistics concerned simply reducing costs all while maintaining availability ratios existing. Alternatively, the contribution of the externalized functions behind internally can be an alarming task. Research on services of logistics indicates the long-term tendency towards externaliser the management of the whole processes of businesses, such as the dynamic processes of businesses including/understanding the order and the delivery of order, which are prone to the considerable change with time.

With these changes of customer the needs come from the changes in the way in which the users evaluate their suppliers of the potential 3PL. La old woman method evaluation included/understood the following factors:

  * Reduced costs of labor and countable costs of inventory
  * Lower the costs of transport
  * Reduced duration of cycle
  * Integration of system improved of customer
  * Effectiveness of process of businesses
  * Reach the information systems
  * Financial stability

Such criteria achieved a goal at the same time, but the customers expect that their 3PL suppliers are more than right mechanisms of implementation now. The customers thus want that the 3PL suppliers are rather associates of chain of provisioning, the customers must evaluate who maintain them choose using levels higher than in the past. The new criteria include what follows:

  * Increased possibilities of chain of provisioning
  * Total accesses and deployment
  * Marginal technology
  * Integration, visibility, flexibility, and evolutionarity of service of chain of provisioning
  * Control process industrial and innovation of businesses
  * Support of the initiatives of collaboration
  * Financial force

Write SOA: 3PL technologies must be evaluated against a model of SOA

Orientated architecture towards services (SOA), in its simpler form, is an approach with the tasks of businesses and the processes of management of businesses made available starting from various software packages for the re-use. SOA employs flexible connectivity with the well defined interfaces standard-based. The components of SOA include services of Web, gates, waiters of application, frameworks of safety and analytics, industrial process control of businesses (BPM), and principal management of the data, to call ones just.

SOA is a guide which the companies can use for strategic management their businesses. In the middle of SOA is the concept which the economic applications must be in activity and based on internal and external processes of businesses, including externalized. Being used as model with the next generation of the systems and procedures of management of collaboration, SOA attaches together a company 'systems of S of disc, process, and of company, so that technologies in each system work towards supporting services of collaboration. The model of SOA must be applied to the internal and external systems, in particular those in support of the provisioning outside whole of process of businesses.

Important suppliers of technology as IBM with WebSphere live for SOA, Oracle 'the company directed towards the services of S (SOE) and fusion, and SAP 's NetWeaver with the architecture of services of company (ESA) frayent a way the development of the executives of SOA. Other important suppliers of SCM espionnent plans for an orientated architecture towards the services like associates of Manhattan and i2. SOA 'advantages envisaged of S the majority of include a faster reconfiguration and more flexible device of the processes of businesses. This should be right the turn for 3PLs.

If the interBiz to mean the intelligence and the forecast beyond the ERP?

In October and November, interBiz, the division of applications of International e-business of Computer Associates, Inc. (NYSE: CA), increased its solutions of in back-office with the advertisement of the improvements of products and a free service of evaluation. The advertisements were:



  * A free service of evaluation for companies in industries of durable goods

  * General availability of version 8.4 of manufacture of Mk

  * Plans of best quality of service which provide maintenance for modifications and the migration of the modifications to new versions of the applications of software of interBiz

This, the part one of a note in two parts, discusses these advertisements and their impact of the market. Part two will discuss the challenges taken up by the interBiz and will put forth recommendations of user.

On November 13, the interBiz announced a free service of evaluation for companies in industries of durable goods. The evaluation provides to wholesalers and distributors a comparison of their execution against the average and the good-in-class of industry. The evaluation report also estimates the financial advantages of the improvement of execution.

the interBiz determined that there are roughly 35.000 distributors and wholesalers in the industry of durable goods. Research also supposedly noted that the speed of the e-business made assemble levels of inventory and safety-actions; that places order became smaller and more frequent and consequently expensive to treat than front; that the personalization of the products made forecasts more difficult; and that all this took place while competition on the price stiffened.

The questionnaire of service of evaluation of interBiz was commissioned of Buker Inc., the organization of consultation total and independent which developed the certification of Class-A and specializes in the distribution and industries. The questions, and their interpretation, vary industry with industry but usually concentrate on the execution of the delivery (by the subjected company and its suppliers), the management of order, the durations of cycle, the rates of actions-outside, the costs, and the casch management. The algorithms developed by Buker Inc. are applied to determine things such as the impact to profitability. The service of evaluation of interBiz is free. Wholesalers and distributors in the market of the accessories of the motor vehicles, the professional and the commercial equipment, the electric goods, the material and piping, the machines, the equipment, and the segments of provisioning can take part.

On October 29, the interBiz announced the general availability of one of its many version 8.4 of manufacture of the Mk solutions of the planning of entrepreneurial resource of flagship (ERP). Roughly half of the functional improvements in version 8.4 refer to the management of logistics. Mk manufacturing 8.4 provides the ERP and the realization integrated of order on platforms of Windows NT and Unix. The majority of the popular relational databases are also constant.

Several of the improvements of device in version 8.4 of the manufacture of Mk are related to the management of logistics and the realization and include improvements in the forwarding of fall, advanced notes of forwarding (ASNs), outside-discovery of the numbers of periodic publication and batch, of multiple deliver-with the addresses, the greatest flexibility of carrier and forwarding agent, and the consolidated scaffolding of the delivery. Since the advanced management of warehouse is integral with the manufacture of Mk, the handling inventory of the improvements in version 8.4 (the additional support of radio frequency (RF), to intercalate selection and put-far, of the improvements of cycle counting, etc) are supposedly available to all the aspects of the company, C. - with-D., raw materials and inventories of the works in progress (WIP), like the traditional inventory of end products. In addition to logistics and improvements of realization, version 8.4 of manufacture of Mk provides improvements to its functions of service, planning, financial management, projects, and devices of personalization of product.

On October 15, the interBiz announced the plans of best quality of service, which provide maintenance for modifications and the migration of the modifications to new versions of the applications of software of interBiz. The company spy to be the first supplier of software to develop a plan of migration and modification it of the hearths on the reduction of the concept of risk. The plans of best quality of service are at the disposal of all the customers of ERP of interBiz and solutions of logistics. Modifications internally developed, third and interBiz-created can be covered within the framework of the plans. Two plans are offered: the support plan of migration and maintenance support the plan.

The support plan of migration makes sure that when the customers emigrate with new versions of the products of interBiz their modifications will as well be emigrated, any additional costs. Moreover, the customers who choose the support plan of migration can have corrections of interBiz examined to ensure compatibility with the modifications (and all affected modifications which must be adapted) before they install the correction on their system.

The support plan of maintenance provides the level and the customer support of businesses for modifications. The customers of support plan of maintenance can place calls of support on modifications by the certified OIN 9000, the telephone 24x7 and the interBiz in line of system of support maintains. The customers of support plan of maintenance should not identify any more if an exit is related to a product of modification or basic - both are covered within the framework of the support plan of maintenance. The evaluation for the two packages is based on a percentage of the modification 'initial costs of S and is posted on an annual base.

Manugistics is delivered to the open season of M&A

In May during the annual conference of the user enVISION2002, Manugistics Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: MANU), one of the total leading vendors of software of the management of chain of provisioning (SCM), announced had acquired to him the capital and the businesses of the Western systems of data private-held of supplier of ERP (WDS), of www.westdata.com, with head offices in Calabasas, CA, and with over 20 years of presence in the industry of defense providing the execution of transaction of factory-level for the manufacture and the operations of maintenance, repair, and revision (MRO). Acquisition has a potential to create one of largest space and defense (A&D) installed bases of customer in industry, and to increase a strong solution regulated to optimize the complex service and left the processes of management (S&PM) of these organizations capital-intensives. WDS, with last year of incomes of $28 million, is a supplier in front of software and of services of application to the organizations of A&D, with more than 135 convergent organizations and 33.000 users in the whole world.

This advertisement came after all the year the lull which followed the flow of fusions and acquisitions in first half of 2001 (see that the Semi-Market consolidates, Lo and see). The lull, which was partially ascribable probable to the reduced investors 'optimism particularly in the sector of technology among slow economic environment, seems to have finished with another group of acquisitions (see the tests of the others, point forked with a small type, Microsoft of SAP large the carried balances some to conquer the Semi-Market, once and still, and CA discharges the collection from interBiz in the sanctuary of the ASS WP 'of S).

With this acquisition, Manugistics tries to reinforce its offer of the solutions of S&PM which addresses the complex business transactions inherent in intensive industries of capital. The customers will have supposedly increased possibilities in the plan, to evaluate, synchronize and be carried out with a complete choice of functionality. The whole of solution should comprise the possibilities which extend from the predictive forecasts of failure from the system and part optimization, with the establishment of the program of finished capacity and resource of work, with the planning of store of MRO and the execution, and the purchase order control of direct materials. The advantages of these solutions could make it possible customers to optimize the availability of capital, to ensure durable for capital, and to carry out the reduction of the costs of inventory and physical capacity.

The customers of WDS space include the systems of BAE, Boeing, of GKN spaces, Lockheed Martin, Norshipco, Northrop Grumman, Sikorsky and Smiths. Moreover, the Department of Defence of the United States (DoD) put pursuant to the solutions of American WDS at the navy, the bodies of the marines of the United States, and at the Air force of the United States. On the one hand, Manugistics customers of A&D include the space of Kaman, propulsion of Rocketdyne and the power, the International one of the electronics of Mars, State Department, as well as the agency of logistics of defense (DLA), the Air force of the United States, and the naval feeding circuits order (NAVSUP). The many sites of MRO of deposit-level in DoD consequently will be based on Manugistics integrated possibilities of planning and execution.

In addition to one notable base of customer of A&D, Manugistics of technology of chain of provisioning to enumerate on both administration of general services of the United States is supposedly the only leading vendor 'federal programme of provisioning of S for management, of organization and the improvement of businesses maintains (GSA MOBIS) the andd the program technology information of GSA 'of S. the agency of consultation, of command and of control of NATO (NC3A) also allotted a basic agreement of order (BOA) to Manugistics. The agreement gives Member States of NATO of S 19,27 countries partners, and many national administrations of direct access in Manugistics with solutions.



While following its strategy of the investment in new, good-of-multiply the products and the solutions, Manugistics believes that it assembled a powerful continuation of solution such as which include the offers of WDS now:



  * CompassENTERPRISE for the manufacturers of material (OEM) - this solution provides the complete project or the possibilities contract-directed to the discrete customers of manufacture with a need to maintain conformity, the order, and the obligatory report of standardization.

  * CompassENTERPRISE for the MRO - it is a complete repair and the management of operations of revision and the plan of accountant for the commercial and military equipment of MRO are a solution based on the WEB and unfolding of operation-allowed.

  * Purchase favours - this system of E-supply, provided by WDS 'subsidiary Advisian, is conceived expressly for the acquisition of direct material which composes most of all the supply in complex industries. The solution unfolding of operation-is led, and sophisticated tools to control contractual engagements and of standardization which carry out complex operations of manufacture.

As if an acquisition were not sufficient for within one month, on May 28, Manugistics announced that it acquired the businesses of the private-held freight of Digitals, Lexington, supplier KY-based of the solutions of collaboration of logistics which facilitate on line, real-time offers for the package deals of transport. Manugistics 'comprehensive solution of management of logistics will offer now consequently purchasers and the salesmen of transport maintains one increased real-time, blocked compromise environment conceived to simplify and accelerate the process of approvisonnement of logistics. By using a market on line to automate the task long to ask and treat invitations to tender for contracts of carriage, the shippers and the carriers should reduce of this fact the resources requested to control their complex business transactions.

The solution of market of freight of Digitals supposedly facilitated more than $1.9 billion in the transactions through more than 1.800 carriers and 38 shippers. The architecture of collaboration of the solution of market of freight of Digitals gives shippers and carriers of the important advantages compared to the traditional processes of offer by providing a framework of collaboration for the dynamic evaluation. The freight of Digitals the 'customers of S include leaders of industry like the cork of crown and the joint, Frito-extend, International of Honeywell, Safeway Inc., and Sonoco.

Manugistics has in the past offered one of industry 'continuations of S broadest of the solutions based on the WEB of management of logistics, although by associations. The customers like Bandag, Inc., Brown and Williamson, ChemLogix - a subsidiary company of GATX, CMB LogiFlow, Deere & Co., Elemica, care of cargo of Ewals, foods of Hershey, Kohl 's Corporation, Kraft Foods, NAVTRANS, Staples, Inc., Subaru of America, Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P), Limited, Inc., TJX Companies, RadioShack Corporation, toys R us, Inc., Tronicus and Winn-Dixie all turned to Manugistics so that the solutions take up their challenges of logistics.

It is the part one of an analysis in two parts of the news of Manugistics. The part two will continue the impact of the market and will put forth recommendations of user.

Total commercial management of unification: Challenges and recommendations of user

The companies with total operations can more not control their transport needs with generic applications of approvisonnement and E-supply. They need more astute systems to address their always complex conditions. The functionality of their systems of the management of chain of provisioning (SCM) will need also continual improvements to control reports/ratios of businesses of chain of provisioning, transactions, and the communication.

Unquestionably, whereas the provisioning outside chain of provisioning bursts because of manufacture at sea, sub-contracted manufacture, third logistics, sadly, too many companies continue unfavourable follow the movement strategies because of poor and unfinished information. Today, logistics costs through percentages two digits of average of industries of the incomes. Multiple factors, such as increasing costs of fuel, lacks of driver, marketing policies, border, and security measures will continue to lead costs of logistics higher. Always, few companies factorize in right proportion in cost of total logistics in their decisions of provisioning outside. Decisions are based almost exclusively on the nominal manufacturing costs of by-unit and irresponsible, do not consider data concerning the costs deeper of logistics.

Consequently, in addition to the total commercial solutions of management (engine), the companies should consider the solutions which support strategic and tactical decision making, such as the calculation of the costs activity-based by logistics, which is offered by companies like systems of nipple; strategic design of network of provisioning of i2, total ASS, perspicacity, LogicTools, Manugistics, Oracle etc; and approvisonnement strategic optimized, as offered by MindFlow or TradeStone.

The situation could become more scrambled much with the recent federal maritime Commission of the USA the 'act principal of S, that lets Ship-Have not the common careers (NVOCC) to be in talks the acts under signature with their customers. The act, which puts out of order indeed the maritime industry of the USA, tries to level the playing field between the maritime lines and the community of freight-forwarding, and thus finishes the six years advantage that the ship-possession of the maritime lines had above those not of ship-possessions. In other words, shippers with at least of freight that the large companies, which, during several years in were deprived contracted with the line of ocean companies, maintaining the same occasion.

Considering that the going beyond of the Law of reform of forwarding of ocean of the USA (OSRA) in 1996 released from the lines of ocean to create the acts under signature with the independent customers, now NVOCCs will have the same power basically. However, this freedom comes at the cost from many the alternatives planning and execution for shippers. Moreover, underlines the need for record keeping more complex of the information of contract for NVOCCs and fulfilment against of such contracts.

One has could note that a similar step was taken by the government of the USA to beginning of the year 80 with the deregulation of the trucking industry. This had as consequence the new systems of a management of category-transport of applications of company (TMS) - which helped to optimize decisions for services of haulage. The act of NVOCC should help of smaller shippers, as well as present more options. Consequently, one should thus expect that the similar solutions of software for the planning and the management of the alternatives of ocean freight emerge. Such a solution probably will resemble a solution of TMS and will include the ocean and marine transport. Consequently, the companies which continue to count on processes nobody-intensives and paper can finish to the top walk starting from the potential saving if they do not commutate.

Such a technology should certainly help of the shippers to direct the labyrinth of the alternatives between the suppliers, the rates, and the service, and the broadest systems of the stock management of logistics (LRM) required so that NVOCCs controls the new multitude of acts under signature. There will be also a need for optimization of supply of multimode transport, rate and databases of service, sailing of the programs, and the functions of management of forwarding and payment, as the shippers analyze and envisage the request for freight and are in talks of the contracts with their carriers which keep increases in rate to a minimum. It will have to also fix the capacity in the right lanes as well as possible, particularly during critical seasons. These systems should make it possible shippers to create and publish standardized offers, to optimize them through the multiple carriers the 'answers, to convert the results into contracts on line digitalized, and to create the detailed plans which weigh the price, the service, and the levels of engagement of capacity through the network of a shipper 'of an S carriers choose. Currently, the suppliers who near have just achieved these tasks include the tastes of connections of the WP and the dynamics of management.

However, just as with no application of SCM, the advantages of an optimized plan can be carried out unless a system of execution is set up to supervise and ensure daily conformity the negotiated contracts and engagements (see the utility of SCP and SCE to collaborate for a better realization). Consequently, these multimode systems of TMS will have to supervise the two sides of the contract, like the shipper or the carrier can not live until their engagements. I.e., the shippers must follow the plan, to secure their shippers follow it, and to detect without interruption reality against the situation designed to ensure of engagements are met and the desired saving of ocean freight is carried out. There seem to be more options for suppliers than it is necessary in the phase of planning, with offers of solutions of the suppliers the G-Notation of tastes, the i2, TradeBeam, and Descartes.

Currently, it clear that TradeBeam is far from being close embracing a system of LRM, is given its incursions to provide some intrinsic possibilities of engine, such as the evaluation of foreign currencies, of transfer, the management of contract, the audit of conformity, or the orders inter-members. On the one hand, some solutions of point could still refer exceptional functional, this call to the customers inclined to buy the software in a fragmentary way due to the financial constraints.

Some believe that there are too many silos of technology so that any supplier treats each aspect of total logistics, and much of companies can decide packages separated for commercial conformity, the TMS, the forecasts, or other tasks. Since much logistics and manufacture is externalise, the companies need also technology to function with the systems of counterparts employed by their carriers and suppliers 3PL. L' test to roll all these various possibilities in a simple application, based on a simple whole of universal standards of data, is certainly intimidating, if not a false approach. No doubt, trying to integrate the disparate systems was always a challenge, but the appearance of the Web service-have based of architectures, however, can relieve some of these exits of integration, at least in coward-coupled and accomodated mode. For example, a transport commissioner and a customs agent can initially buy modules to help them to lead siftings of deny-part and to go up quotations of unload-cost, based on customers of the requests for assistance with these specific activities. The software takes a step typically in when automation can meet customers conditions more quickly and more effectively than of the existing possibilities.

The backbone of ERP cannot be been unaware of

However, the import and export are closely connected to the company with 'internal finances of S, making more and more with facility integration with systems of ERP a priority first for much of companies. For any company which already rolled-outside ERP-based, order-treating the system in the whole world, the capacity to bind the conformity of export around the world directly to the treatment of order and to eliminate to reintroduce data, could be a great sales point. Moreover, much of shippers the software of importation/export employs to create the world uniform infrastructures of information and to impose uniform practices on all the subsidiary companies.

The software should preferably collect information and to again introduce them into the head office, giving him the visibility in which remote divisions make and how they do it. The suppliers of software, although, must run up against good balance between the total uniformity and the local needs for special (see standardization on a system of ERP to a company of Multi-division). Working with habits and experts as regards law of the trade around the world, the software of much of engine and the service providers were thus building in the adaptations for local conditions all while always maintaining the uniformity procedural.

For example, Arzoon, which was recently acquired by the ASS of honourable of total ERP, was one of some startings of point-COM TMS to becoming what was probably the first supplier of software to provide an integrated solution of TMS/GTM. Arzoon, with offices in North America and Europe, carried out this exploit by acquiring From2, Inc. a supplier of the contents of commercial conformity and software of automation, in March 2001. The movement gave Arzoon 's existing supply, and inventory, and possibilities based on the WEB of continuation ITL/GTM of management of transport for the conformity of standardization, the frontier unloaded calculation of the costs, and the total commercial generation of document. He also excelled in the options for the rail, a sector where the suppliers of TMS and LRM were limited. Before the total acquisition of the ASS, the company had developed the technology of transport of Internet (exchange of logistics) to help of the companies to obtain, supervise, and control the services which imply one or more modes of transport-rail, road, air, or water.

In addition to one such functionality, the total systems of logistics should be equipped well to classify forwardings, to identify denied parts, gather and disseminate data electronically, and provide the necessary visibility to ensure the safety of forwarding. The continuation of software of the LIFE of Arzoon takes data of article-level of a buying order and then records each movement of forwarding to the document which exactly touched it. The system, which incorporates a database of the commercial payments, tariffs, and functions of more than twenty-five countries, potential problems of head-with far with the crossing of frontiers by leaving companies from user correct inaccuracies in shipping documents before the goods reach the border. The system also lets companies detect forwardings by multiple reference numbers in a simple advance of cargo, providing a visibility much larger in the statute of forwarding. This visibility in various forwardings (via the preliminary inspection of the buying orders) also allows the companies to give the priority and to move with pressing orders of freight in front of less pressing forwardings.

However, except the total ASS, the large majority of suppliers of ERP and SCM always miss indigenous functionality of engine. However, considering the increase continues of approvisonnement total, they will probably fill this gap by acquisitions of the suppliers or strategic alliances of content providers. An exception to this tendency was PeopleSoft pre-acquisition (currently had by Oracle). PeopleSoft had a long time offered integrated commercial possibilities of conformity (since the middle of the Nineties). For example, when an order moved by the system, or changes its statute, it would be checked conformity. Thus a legitimate order could not be except noting only later that the company by distraction enculass the law because of the changes in the name of customer, with the address, the carrier, or the country of destination.

To treat the total commercial complexity of management

Movements of JP Morgan Chase and TradeBeam, and their respective acquisitions, as discussed in the leaders of market of total commercial management of this note, indicate that the total commercial space of management (engine) consolidates and that the suppliers of solution of point disappear. The chiefs like JP Morgan Chase and TradeBeam include/understand that to really improve the total trade, one must be able to control the chain of provisioning physical and financial through the whole commercial transaction. The physical chain of provisioning is composed of conformity of export/importation, management of document, forwarding detecting, the electronic management of chain of provisioning (SCEM), the inventory control, the total management of parts, the management of safety, and the management of contract. The financial chain of provisioning refers to tasks such as the treatment of buying order, the letter of credit the management of management (LLC), of management of opened, pre account-- and of post-forwarding of financing, reconciliation, invoice of presentment, conflict of management, foreign currencies, and insurance (see diagram 1).

As for the acquisition of the port opened by TradeBeam, the integration of product should be complete by second half of 2005, and TradeBeam pawns to maintain the service and uninterrupted support for a principal group open customers of port during the immediate fulfilment of contract of phase and post of transition. TradeBeam was also urged during the discussions with the open port the 'customers S to include/understand their specific circumstances, the range of their projects, and to accept jointly in the conditions of working together to ensure the alignment of the goals of businesses. Engine is new and the very large applications potentially of company space which was compared by certain being the next paradigm of corporation after the planning of entrepreneurial resource (ERP). TradeBeam is considered a thought-chief because of his significant initially driving favours. It favoured few years compared with the majority of the competitors, and began with booklet end to end engine, and did not rtroadapt its solution on other applications of cousin undertaken. Up to now, TradeBeam has an impressive functional range, and he promises much in the future.


Diagram 1: Physical and financial diagram of value of solutions (source: TradeBeam)

Some applications of company, such as the logistics of international business (ITL) and the engine simply seem to lend themselves well to an accomodated model. Because of their spread nature, they cannot effectively function the other manner. With knowknowing, the import/export total obtain-with-pays or order-with-money cash process require a certain number of activities, such as suppliers of source and customers; treat the sale and buying order; ensure the goods; publish and receive the LLC; finance the trade; you charge with forwarding; create the commercial documents; export/importation of conformity of customs; send and receive the goods; send and receive the invoice; reconcile; and the initiate and receive the payment (see diagram 2).

To a more granular level, these activities belong to the following under-processes:

  * order-includes the needs for request for plan, controls nomenclatures (BOM), control of the catalogues of product, checks the statute of inventory, creates buying orders, checks compliances, controls the inventory, controls buying orders, evaluates the risk of the management of chain of provisioning (SCM), recognizes the order, classifies goods, calculates unloaded costs, control the contract, ensures of the goods, and obtains the insurance of credit

  * finance-apply and control the LLC, control the documentation, control the opened account, ask the pre financing and post-forwarding, check conformity, evaluate the risk of SCM, and arrange foreign currencies

  * embark-ask the reservation, embark the book, create the opinion of boat, create the shipping documents, control the advice of dispatch, control the guarantee of forwarding, detect forwardings, control the events, evaluate the risk of SCM, control the clear habits, habits, receive the goods, and control the returns

  * the bench on file create the invoice, present the invoice, reconcile documents, control conflicts, prepare documents, present documents, control accident claims, and receive the handing-over

In any case, much of the latter only could be effectively accomplished by an accomodated solution based on the WEB, have the price indicated by transaction. To achieve in an optimal way the total commercial cycle, businesses must automate, detect, and provide the visibility to the whole process of engine to optimize its chains of provisioning or distribution.

The average total commercial cycle of the order by the payment is 120 days, while a complete accomodated solution of engine as that of TradeBeam can reduce this cycle by a 12 days average, which can improve of the users 'margin by 10 percent or thus.


Diagram 2. total cash order-with-money and obtain-with-pay the cycl

The wanting number of users of the solutions provided above the Internet with month's subscriptions or fees transaction-based appreciably increased. The majority of the new customers want a model transaction-based rather than a right purchase with large, will upfront, payment (see the tendencies in models of the delivery and evaluation for applications of company). Moreover, an approach on the level of the company, on-places with the total trade and a logistics could not be the best approach because of the high costs and the difficulties of execution. In fact, products with the broadest throw a call for the total trade seem today to be accomodated, the solutions based on the WEB which make it possible companies to go apart from their wall fire resistant to provide the visibility of chain of provisioning, the management of event, management with several operating processes of execution of logistics, import and export, and commercial safety with the shippers of company.

A tool if based on the WEB is not simply the choice to connect itself the vast carriers, to shippers, and to other service providers, but is often a better approach than the solutions ERP-directed for commercial conformity and documentation. They is mainly because the systems of ERP have usually only descriptions of marketing of product in their data of Master of article, of nontechnical descriptions necessary for conformity of standardization. Thus, for example, if the Apple computer Import PowerBooks, its name and description associated with sale would not be proportioned for habits of the USA. The commercial applications of conformity should be able to remove the description of sale about purchase and to associate it with a commercially acceptable description and the correct harmonized classification of the program of tariff (HTS). For example, the system should enumerate PowerBook like laptop with certain configurations and characteristics, and the right number of code of HTS.

Moreover, conforming to the 24 rules of hour, and based on the importer the buying order of S, and information on the customers the products, the application should be able to create the shipping instructions for the shipper and to send them to the carriers for their proclamation. Thus provided all the information which must be formed, a system based on the WEB, connected to the business partners around the world, should be faster, easier, and improves that taking a system company-based and trying to transform it into total system of logistics. it is manifestly difficult to integrate the systems Company-based with a wide-area network of the users. Moreover, hardly any company would like its data principal of ERP going directly to the suppliers. It is blocked much more to have a system which takes only the absolute necessary data of the system of ERP or in back-office to divide with the supplier.

In the case of TradeBeam, the company had tried to be distinguished from the pars and the competitors while offering more than the only capacity to detect orders and forwardings, while aiming at improving each of the three groups of activities which compose total trade to it the order, forwarding, and the Financial Regulation. It designed several so-called models solution to solve the specific total commercial problems, extending to provide the conformity of visibility and trade of forwarding from importation to be eliminated from the financial anomalies while controlling the LLC. TradeBeam 'model of solution of S start with the principal points of pain of the total trade and identify tools and strategies available to the companies seeking the advantages of the value of optimized engine. They include a unit on request for applications of engines which individually could contribute the significant value to a company while solving specific problems of management of event. This monitoring system of chain of provisioning allows companies proactivement supervise their execution of chain of provisioning by automatically alerting users with the exceptions in the method for realization of order. TradeBeam arms with the data to provide of decision-making aid integrated to give to directors their best answer to the situations of outside-of-tolerance concerning the execution and the realization of order. TradeBeam provides close to the monitoring in real-time, the measurement and the visibility of the order and forwarding detecting through the whole chain of provisioning total.

Leaders of market of total commercial management

While many eyes are always on the consolidation of the traditional market of the planning of entrepreneurial resource (ERP), the end of 2004 and the beginning of 2005 also saw the movements of acquisition of two players on the total produce market of management (engine) to ahead rationalize the whole life cycle of a total trade and to carry out more effective frontier transactions. Providing the solutions which integrate the chains of physical and financial provisioning by optimizing holistique obtain-with-pay and order-with-money cash cycles for total companies seems not to be more only buzzwords and concepts.

Two of these acquisitions are the bank of hunting of JPMorgan, N.A. (NYSE: JPM) and Vastera (Nasdaq: VAST); and TradeBeam Holdings, Inc., and open port.

Do the part four of will 2005 validate the kingdom of the chains of provisioning financial and physical of Engine-Unification? series

The bank of hunting of JPMorgan acquires Vastera

On January 7, banks of hunting of JPMorgan, N.A. (NYSE: JPM), a principal total services company financial with capital of $1.1 trillions (of USD) and the operations in more than 50 countries signed an agreement and a plan of fusion with Vastera (Nasdaq: VAST), the only supplier of publicly traded software this concentrates on the total trade. With services including/understanding the software, of the controlled services, the total commercial contents, education, and the consulting services at end raised, Vastera were considered a desirable complement with the businesses of logistics and services of the trade of the hunting of JPMorgan 'of the unit of treasure of S.

The unit of services of treasure is one of first rank, the supplier of full-service which meets the needs for the companies, of the establishments of finance departments, the average companies of the market, the small companies, the governments and the municipalities in the whole world. Its services include the innovating payment, the collection, the liquidity and the management of wallet, commercial finance, the commercial chart, and the solutions of information. With more than 50.000 customers and a presence in 36 countries, it is the world 'supplier of the S largest of the services of management of treasure. Within the framework of the agreement and plan of fusion, the shareholders of Vastera will receive $3.00 (of USD) for each not deadened action of the ordinary actions of Vastera they to have, for a total compromise value of roughly $129 million (of USD), premium of approximately 50 percent above the annual income of Vastera.

Vastera 'solutions of S internationally automate the commercial processes required of management related to the physical movement of the goods. Acquisition would have providing further JPMorgan drive out customers with has one-stop shopping service which approaches the challenges and the increasing risks related to the international business. JPMorgan drive out the solution currently facilitates management without seam of information and process to support the movement of the physical goods and the Financial Regulation of the complete total commercial process. With the services of Vastera, JPMorgan drive out praises themselves that it will be the first institution total financier to offer a money cash, a trade, and a solution complete and integrated of logistics through the chains of physical and financial provisioning in a way in which would maximize advantages with its customers.

Precedent with acquisition, Vastera had employment relationships extended with the hunting of JPMorgan by providing solutions of engine. Maintaining the canvasser two with being able to build on this report/ratio as an element of the same company, in a broader infrastructure of engine, to bring the real advantages to the customers of the two formerly independent companies. This acquisition should give JPMorgan running drive out 'customers of S the advantages of broader solutions of engine. In the tturn Vastera the 'customers of S will profit from the services of the hunting of JPMorgan 'of the platform of finance departments of S and the complete whole of product. Vastera will continue to launch its software and services independently, but much more occasion of growth is envisaged to pack up software Vastera 's and the services with JPMorgan drive out 'offers of S.



The achievement of fusion is prone to the shareholder of Vastera, the various bank transactions, and other lawful authorizations. The transaction was approved by Vastera 'board of directors of S recommending of the shareholders of this Vastera vote in favour of the transaction. Two important shareholders roughly representing 28 percent of shares of Vastera, of company of Ford Motor and exceptional companies of crossing of technology, supposedly made with the voice in favour of the transaction in accordance with the agreements of vote.

With roughly 650 professionals in 14 country and with more than 400 customers in the whole world, Vastera is the world chief of the solutions of engine. It is used an international base as customer, including companies such as Alcatel, Dell, Ford, General Electric (GE), Lucent, Fonterra, Goodyear, networks of Nortel, and Seagate. Vastera 'customers of S employ its solutions and services to control their trade, world by controlling the information flows related to the frontier components to import and export goods. The supplier the 'solutions and services of S make it possible customers to control complexities and inefficiencies inherent in the total trade the occasion to some extent which enables them to benefit from large, strongly reduced in fragments, and quickly increasing which exists on the international market. These customers carry out supposedly significant reductions in costs to control their total business transactions while improving conformity with governmental regulations and availability ratios.

Vastera spy her commercial experts to be the company the 's the majority of the valid capital and they were certainly a key factor in the decision of hunting of JPMorgan 'of acquisition of S. It seems has a keen and total demand there commercial advisers, because the companies want to include/understand the impact of the payments always changing on their sales strategy, design of network, operations, and financial execution. Consequently, Vastera sells its products and services by its offices in the USA and subsidiary companies and entities of branch to RU, in Europe, in Mexico, in Canada, in Brazil, and Japan. Its principal forces include the complete contents of standardization, the customers of first order, and its capacity to amalgamate technology with controlled services. It has a strong presence in industries of the motor vehicles and point, with the expertise detailed in Brazil, Canada and Mexico, and currently aims China. As an only supplier of engine with the personnel and the equipment devoted in fourteen countries, Vastera continuous with being identified for its higher and practical management systems of B2B around the world, having for result the service which underlines conformity, the effectiveness, and the effectiveness.

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At the end of 2004, Vastera announced that its eleven controlled operations of services in Mexico and on its site in Bydgoszcz, Poland were certified in accordance with the standard of 9001:2000 of the International Organization for Standardization (OIN), and 9001:2001 of OIN, respectively. Founded in 1947, the OIN facilitates the international coordination and the unification of the industrial standards. It has a network of the national institutes of standards of 148 countries, functioning in association with international agencies, governments, industry, and representatives of the consumer. The 9001:2000 and the 9001:2001 of OIN certified organizations increase the satisfaction of the customer while answering not only the customer and the requirements of standardization, but also while working continuously to improve the execution. The process of certification includes a rigorous examination of the processes of businesses, documents, practical work, data, and discs by a third independent listener. Thus, such a certification indicates that these sites have an exemplary management system of quality in place. In addition to taking part in such reviews, employees of Vastera were interviewed and of the remarks on the spot were emitted with its equipment of Mexico and Poland. Up to now, Vastera received the certification of OIN for fourteen controlled operations of services, including those in Mexico, in Poland, in the USA, and Canada.

In addition to being 9001:2000 of OIN and 9001:2001 of OIN - certified, Vastera is

  * Habit-trade association against terrorism (C-TPAT) certified, by allowing the release dispatched through and the physical examinations reduced to the customs of the USA of the 'check-points. The program of C-TPAT was conceived to make sure that the suitable procedures of safety are in place to protect the flow total commercial entering in the USA.

  * The associates in protection (PIP) certified in Canada, identifier Vastera 'attachment with S with the increased safety of border in North America. The semione, Vastera announced that one accepted it as a member of the government 'Canadian program of PIP of S, of a common initiative of government-businesses conceived to increase the safety of border, of terrorism of combat and organized crime, conscience of increase in conformity publishes, and detects and prevents to make smuggling. Available to the importers, the carriers, the brokers, the operators of warehouse and associations which work in the international business, the program of PIP teams the industry deprived with the agency of services of Canadian border (CBSA). To be allowed with the program, the eligible companies must achieve a draft-agreement, lead an evaluation of oneself supplements their procedures of safety of chain of provisioning, and meet periodically with representatives of CBSA to exchange information and to take part in the sessions of conscience which help to detect illegal activities. In work with the CBSA, Vastera establishes employment relationships with the Canadian government compared to protecting health, safety, and the economic prosperity of the Canadians. In exchange for acceptance in the PIP, Vastera will offer the support to its own customers in all the process of application. Once approved in the framework of the program of PIP, the customers of Vastera can then consider the participation in the free and blocked commercial program (FAST), a common frontier program of We-Canada under which the carriers, importers, and the drivers pre-approvals can increase the release dispatched in one or the other country, transforming the commitment of conformity into occasion to rationalize the chain of provisioning. Moreover, Vastera is a certified customs agent, and an electronic supplier of approved software of the exchange of information of evaluation of oneself of customs (SCUMS EDI).

  * Simpler commercial procedures (SITPRO) certified with the RU, by which Vastera is an approved supplier of document. It can produce and provide almost seventy standard documents of SITPRO for its customers functioning RU and in Europe.

  * The system Kontroli (WSK) of Wewn.trzny certified in Poland, identifying the exemplary management systems of Vastera 'of quality and of conformity of S. WSK is the Polish internal certification of control system. Vastera 's controlled housekeeping operations in the certification of WSK received by Poland of the Polish center for the test and certification. The supplier is also IQNet certified in Poland identifying that its controlled operations of services applied and maintain a management system which meets the conditions of the standard of 9001:2001 of OIN.

In addition to these certifications, at the end of January, Vastera announced that it increases its business practice of board of trustees to the European Union (EU). Its practice of board of trustees supplements the software and the externalized commercial solutions of management already offered by Vastera in Europe. Among the business services of board of trustees being offered to the EU are the evaluations of programme of conformity of importation/export, the design of process and the execution consulting, and consulting in the sectors such as the management of chain of provisioning total (SCM), and the commercial design of lane. Vastera hopes to increase its presence in the country strong while it continues new occasions of consultation in Europe, where it currently provides the operational solutions and the management software commercial to the companies such as Dell, Ford, Logica, Lucent, Nestle, networks of Nortel, International of Schenectady, and technology of Seagate.

Thus, JPMorgan hope to increase all Vastera 'certification and prominence of S in the international business. However, one should note, that although Vastera is impressive, and JPMorgan with the notable range, Vastera, hearths more on the rules and the payments imposed by the many government organizations required in the border trade (such as the coding of harmonization of product, the taking out of bond, the taxes, the tariffs, and the taxes). Finally, the agreement of acquisition with JPMorgan will not compensate which Vastera always missed it of technology to automate and control total logistics detecting, movement of goods, and the part of visibility of the physical chain of provisioning. JPMorgan drive out will have to thus continue its continuation of the solutions to round outside a complete booklet of product of engine, as for the range has breaks to direct the international channels of trade to place from the orders, to send, and receive forwardings and to arrange invoices anywhere in the world.

Total trade flows of management

There is a multitude of complex interactions between the total trade flows in a blocked chain of provisioning. With knowing, through the few suitable processes of dozen, the total trade requires to control the flow of the goods, the funds, and information. I.e., flow of information must support the advance and the management of the goods to allow the entry and the exit blocked and in conformity with and of the country so that the correct funds run in eligible businesses and business partners.

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Concerning the flow of the goods, it is important to control the processes around the sectors such as the order and the original contract, information on the product, commercial conformity, unloaded forwarding detecting, and costs. For example

  * The management of order needs the capacity to correctly detect the limits of businesses of the order. Because an order progresses, it is essential to reconcile all the activities of forwarding against the order to make sure that the process is smooth of a compromise prospect and safety.

  * Commercial conformity requires the capacity to control processes of conformity of import and export. The suitable management of these processes includes business partners of sifting against the governmental lists of prohibition, determinant that products can be embarked with, the externalized activity country of destination of management of service provider, such as a broker and activities of conformity auditantes, to ensure correct flow of information and the precise payment of the taxes, duty, and fees.

  * Information on the product must control the flow of information relative of goods concerning the physical goods. For example, harmonized program of tariff (HTS) or numbers of the number of classification of control of exports (ECCN) to help commercial conformity, the weights for the reservation of forwarding, and the documents for the advance.

  * The advance of forwarding must provide the visibility for the place of the goods during all the life of the trade, including the entry and the exit of the ports, and exchanges it of title through to the proof of the delivery, in statute on when the goods reach the final destination.

As for the flow of the funds, it is important to control the manner that invoices are handled, of the international payments are carried out, and how these payments are reconciled. For example

  * The reconciliation should handle total commercial conditions for the dimensional set of N to the kind by the vast quantity of information required to arrange total transactions. The set must be controlled through the commercial documents, accentuating exceptions on the level of line-article.

  * The management of invoice must control advertising film and the creation and the presentation of customs invoice, and controls the exceptional invoices.

  * The letter of credit management (LLC) must control the flow of the letters of credit of their creation through to their presentment final. The process must synchronize between the data of LLC and the supporting documents critical, including the bill of lading (BOWL), the invoice, and it packing list.

  * The management of conflict must mark exits and to control the resolution runs between the multiple business partners

  * The commercial financing requires functions factorizing the sums to be received commercial based on characteristics of the trade of multiple such as the way of navigation, the currency, the estimate of supplier of purchaser, or the commercial credit.

With regard to flow of information, it is critical to detect and arrive the anomalies of information, documentation, and the interaction with business partners to create the blocked recordings of audit and to arrange transactions. For example

  * The proactive alarm of information provides the capacity to act on exceptions and anomalies of information between the business partners and the service providers

  * The creation and the management of document are necessary to make sure that the documents are precise and in conformity with agreements and payments of businesses to ensure the fast exchange of the title of the goods and payment

  * The integration of business partner must control flow of information with all the business partners

  * Recordings of audit are required to provide clear evaluations of document for all documentation, process, and communication with interactions of associate.

To recapitulate, through the three principal flows, of the companies of user must deploy the tools which support the automation of the standard procedures of course of operation, synchronize, and reconcile the exchange of the data, automate the generation of document, envisage the management of exception, and envisage the detailed and flexible visibility in orders and forwardings. This whole must be done all while conforming to safety, the conformity and other conditions of standardization

To provide the great image for total commercial safety, these important flows can also be evaluated in terms of where they apply to consider initiatives of safety and conditions federal. In fact, the total commercial participants would benefit from a matrix, (see table 2), which provides a summary of the flows and processes related on the goods, information, and the funds which apply to the current initiatives of safety and the federal conditions for the import and export.

Table 2: Total commercial summary of safety

Source: TradeBeam

For example, take the processes with which must be considered by applying technology Habit-Trade association against terrorism (C-TPAT). Based on the matrix above, the attention must be granted to the computer-assisted management of orders, the control of commercial conformity, and how the classification of product is carried out, when it comes to the flow from the goods. As for the flow of the funds, an attention must be granted to the way in which the internal invoices and payments are led, in addition to making sure that their reconciliation is precise. In conclusion, elements of flow of information are required to ensure conformity C-TPAT.

With penalties to violate the laws of control of exports which can potentially reach the dollars $30 million (USD), the reasons to establish conformity controls in a company 'of the processes of businesses of S and to find the software which can draw up protocols to treat orders of export and to create them the discs of transaction are irresistible. Moreover, the amalgamation of the federal agencies in enormous organizations as the department of the USA of safety at house (CSAD) will make with software an important tool to conform to the mandates of safety. Administration of import and export, the marketing policy, and the national security are all which converge under a simple bureaucratic umbrella, and this importers and the exporters of means will have to organize data of a similar fashion.

The other aspect to be considered is the checking of the financial data and the processes of businesses. The shippers who are implied in fusions and acquisitions, or to undergo habits and fiscal controls can employ the software of engines as average of audit because they automatically record each stage in each commercial transaction. These possibilities also help of the companies to conform to the act of the USA Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), which requires companies to certify that their processes of businesses and statements of the financial account meet specified standards (for more information, attributes of the cases of tools of Sarbanes-Oxley see). If there is sufficient confidence in incomes of export which it would affect materially a company a 'execution financial of S if something were badly, like an order of denial the prohibition of the company of export because of a violation, then of the procedures of company 'of control of exports of S should be certified.

Terrorism of combat with total commercial management

Before 9/11, to ensure the safety of forwarding mainly meant to prevent the flight and the pilfering. Useless to say that post 9/11, of the security issues shifted with the parts of reception of release, identifier which contacts forwarding during its voyage, and new meeting and requirements in evolution of government related on the opinion and documentation precedents. The future security measures can include the identification of the recipients and other parts which are announced when forwarding arrives at the USA, and even genealogy of the elements, documenting the origin and the voyages of each component in end products.

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The federal government of the USA achieved its legislative day order receiving the approval of the congress for a series of laws, including the maritime act of degree of safety of transport and the creation of the department of the safety of fatherland (CSAD) which refitted 22 old federal agencies and 170.000 federal employees. A result of the legislation is the need for the shippers, the carriers, and the ports to present technology to improve of the total commercial processes of the same row. The new legislation of degree of safety of transport and trade instituted a conformity much more strict and conditions of advance of capital, making technology essential to satisfy the requests for these payments.

For shippers before 9/11, the process was all about obtaining as much work carried out like possible before reaching the border. Manually the seizure of manifest information, for example, can take a few days, and in the past this would mean that the habits of the USA would receive data of cargo only after the boat had sailed. Maintaining the majority of work must be finished before the veils of boat even. For example, the automated manifest new rule of 2$4$ hours requires as from December 2002 of the carriers of ocean to provide the department of the safety of fatherland the office of S of the habits and the protection of border (CBP) with a proclamation of cargo, twenty-four hours before veils of a boat against its original port for the USA put in communication. Because of this new rule, there are significant ramifications on shippers management of contract and shaped collaboration with customers and the establishment of the program of the delivery. In a general way, the importance of work is large since roughly 11 million containers of sea enters water of the USA annually.

Another security measure is that all the cargo must have a number of identity Of joint which checks that forwarding was not changed since at the origin packed with the warehouse, and documentation enumerating the names and the addresses of the shipper and the recipient must also be available. To avoid more far from the delays of potential, the shippers must also include in their documentation which they are in conformity with Habit-Trade association against the condition of terrorism (C-TPAT), by which, for conformity, a shipper must take a document on the appearance of file which the ports used meet standards of the USA for the safety of the equipment and the personnel.

In addition to the automated manifest rule of 2$4$ hours, the Department of Transport, and the habits of the USA launched the sure trade of operation, which is designed to increase safety for the international cargo of container, and which will make the systems total of logistics much more dependent on the data acquisition convenient and precise concerning the contents of forwarding and on the movement. Since the manual data capture is with long and inclined errors, the total systems of logistics function well better once supported by the data acquisition based on automatic technologies of identification, such as the labels of code bars and the labels of the identification of radio frequency (RFID), which can be swept at the strategic places between the point of origin and the destination. RFID is one of incipient technologies which will lead the visibility, the order, and the conformity increased of chain of provisioning. Moreover, suppliers such as Albertsons, target, Wal-Mart, and the U.S. Defence Department (DOD) push the mandate of RFID on their suppliers, showing that RFID will have a significant impact on future operations of chain of provisioning (see the new technology of RFID-A regulated to burst?) and will play a notable role by rationalizing exchanges of the total commercial kingdom of management (engine).

Thus, no matter which imports/exports or packs up purchases or uses of a shipper, engines, in theory, except thousands of hours function while clearly the cut costs. For example, the laws of control of exports require shippers to interview purchasers against lists of deny-parts. There is more than thirty of these lists constantly changeantes, which them entities named with ties with the terrorists, the criminal groups, and the governments (unpleasant) not very friendly. Some exporters annually review tens of thousands of orders, thus it is difficult, if not impossible to lead to manually proportioned controls. Reciprocally, the software which is updated daily, by the well informed professionals, can complete work in a few seconds, and attenuates the principal risk of sale, or behind purchase, behind any of a certain number of prohibited individuals or organizations known under the name of denied parts. There is almost of 12.000 of the latter called on lists maintained by the state of the USA, treasure, and departments the commercial, and some thousand of which are considered to be terrorists, or fronts for organizations of terrorist. Others appear on the list for various reasons, such as the unpleasant national government, or because of their contribution to the proliferation of opiates prohibited, the chemical weapons or biological, and the technology of missile or nuclear power.

In the theory, the companies must interview everyone which left to any transaction, including suppliers, shippers, customers, and so on. For example, section 326 of the Patriot Act United States was application to address the terrorism and the washing of money, to increase the report on the suspicious activity of customer, and to check the identity of customer in an effort to shorten the total money washing and the financing of terrorist. It requires the institutions financial, such as banks, insurance companies, companies by the credit card, money service companies, the investment funds mutualists sponsored or retailers, and casinos to establish minimal procedures to check the identity of new customers when they of the open accounts. This section also requires names of holder and applicant of account of counter-checking against lists of government of known or suspects organizations of terrorist.

The banks must also have programmes of conformity in place to make sure that, according to the rules published by the office of the USA of the order of foreign assets (OFAC), their customers of corporation by no means treat a part put on the black list. On the one hand, any factory which is suspecte to open a breach one or more payments commercial of conformity, could even be temporarily stopped and its property being confiscated by agencies like the service of the USA CBP, the application of export (EE), or the service of immigration and application of customs (ICE), to call ones. Even by distraction treating the denied parts which have the shell, the operations of before-office in the countries not-put the embargo on is in an alarming way easy, thus the need for convenient and of exact information becomes much more suitable.