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20 Collaborative Environments in Warehousing, Distribution and Logistics continued In addition, there needs to be a choice of how to deploy. Partners who have no related IT solutions need a Web-based solution accessed through a standard browser. Partners who have relevant IT capabilities in place need an architecture that makes it easy for them to integrate their capabilities into the collaborative environment. Having established these requirements for a flexible integration strategy, and the tools to support this strategy, Manhattan Associates looked around the marketplace and became an early adopter of Microsoft BizTalk Server. Manhattan Associates uses BizTalk Server to create a solution that addresses the dynamic needs of collaborative commerce by providing real time, seamless connectivity for customers, suppliers, and transportation companies. With the secure electronic exchange of critical documents, the BizTalk Server-based Trading Partner Management solution ensures global visibility, eliminates barriers and facilitates the flow of information. Partners anywhere and at any technology level can exchange business documents such as purchase orders (POs), advance ship notices (ASNs), compliant bar code labels and shipping documents through a Web browser or by direct integration with back-end systems. Manhattan Associates guides users step-by-step through supplier, carriera and customer enablement, and logistics hub management, using BizTalk Server to create collaborative environments that are both efficient and responsive. LEADING EDGE COLL ABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS IN DISCRETE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
RedPrairie (www.redprairie.com) RedPrairie offers software solutions for supply chain execution, integrating warehouse management, labour management and transportation management to maximise logistics excellence across the enterprise and extended supply chain. RedPrairie solutions enhance supply chain visibility and create a basis for supply chain event management, as well as supply chain performance measurement. Working together, these capabilities help users reach their goal of inventory optimisation – the right quantities of the right materials in the right places, round the clock. Deployment of RedPrairie solutions often starts with local facility applications, such as yard and, warehouse management, and pallet and load building. Next steps may be to support enterprise level needs, using RedPrairie capabilities such as workforce performance management, mobile resource management, transportation management and activity billing. The next step is to integrate trading partners to provide supply chain visibility and event management. This involves bringing together data from many systems. Before the use of Microsoft BizTalk Server, users had to create unique interfaces between systems. Now, with BizTalk Server, it is possible to interface each application to BizTalk Server once, then configure it to provide the links needed by the user community. RedPrairie guides its customer’s evolution of supply chain capability from point solutions, which deliver local process efficiency, to integrated supply chain solutions for greater optimisation of their supply chain. This leads ultimately to networked communities of trading partners able to adapt quickly to opportunities and external events. The degree of collaboration between partners increases with each step. “There are three key touchpoints between RedPrairie and Microsoft technologies. Firstly, in Web services – this mainly impacts software developers. Secondly, for transactional data being moved around the system – this is where Microsoft BizTalk Server costeffectively ensures integration of multiple disparate systems and provides data integration and workflow management. Thirdly, we use Microsoft portal technology to create the user’s view”. Source: RedPrairie LEADING EDGE COLL ABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS IN DISCRETE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES 21
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