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Supply Chain Management - Software-as-a-Service

Is spending thousands of dollars to buy supply chain software draining your cash flow? If your software is always "out-of-date soon after the purchase?

You invest a lot of time programming supply-chain software, to improve it? Are you always had problems keeping the software updated and working with different versions?

If you have trouble creating the supply chain collaboration and visibility youDemand with global customers, partners and logistics service, sales, operational centers and administrations?

Are you frustrated not always the results you promise of your supply chain software vendors were? Are you tired of hearing about why the software does not work?

If you are nodding "yes" to these concerns, I do not feel lonely, as most agree to supply chain management executives.

Each year, exporters, importers and serviceProviders are investing millions of dollars and employ thousands of software and hardware engineers hoping to improve productivity and better collaboration supply chain management. Most companies never realized their supply chain management goals. And quite often a company achieve ROI value from their investment in the technology software before they have been outdated or needs extensive re-programming. One major reason is over-the-counter software packages and in-house --programmed software, the bits and set pieces, yielded without a comprehensive end-to-end business perspective plan.

According to Forrester Research, an independent technology and market research companies, the current global economic crisis will reduce spending on IT products and services to around three percent in 2009. It may not sound like much, but perhaps this tightening of the budget is what you need to make the supply chain management executives to seriously look at what benefits,they reach from their current supply chain management software and at what cost your company productivity and competitiveness.

The affordable and sustainable solution for supply chain management software is software-as-a-service, known as SaaS. Software-as-a-service offers four immediate benefits that makes them very attractive in these economic times: quickly implement 1), 2) Pay-As-You-Go Variable costs, 3) scalability to meet your needs;and 4) no capital and earnings.

Consider these software-as-a-service solutions that add value to your supply chain management and profitability of the enterprise:

• SaaS saves money. No software installation or maintenance headaches.

• SaaS reduces IT staff spending, technology, and distractions.

• SaaS provides real-time global supply chain information with on-demand reporting.

• SaaS improves mobility. Desktop / Laptopis compatible, did not require mainframe.

• SaaS applications saves time. Get the whole company and all expanded overseas offices immediately at the same time.

• SaaS provides instant access to the latest software innovations, supply chain logistics tools and compliance with legal requirements.

• SaaS promote supply chain coordination and cooperation. Departments of the company, customers, suppliers, logistics service providers and can help partners andCollaborate in real time. And eliminate duplicate data entry at your various locations and departments.

• SaaS helps control confidential. You know Assign the permissions to the needs, which are based information. Enter your managers monitor complete end-to-end visibility and track, quote prices, generate performance reports to ensure compliance with statutory requirements, create "what-if scenarios, and much more.

• SaaS which improves network security protection. Built-defense in the global securityagainst malicious threats, hacker attacks and dangerous viruses.

• SaaS allows redistribution of the IT budget and eliminate burdensome paperwork. More time and money to concentrate on sales, marketing, improve customer service and profit of the company's bottom line.

• SaaS companies can be integrated into other software applications to create a seamless end-to-end visibility into your business performance and profitability metrics.

• SaaS provides instant real time --Information, statistics and reporting. Provides Supply Chain Management of Key Performance Indicators KPI's.

• SaaS does not require big investments. Pay-as-you-go. Variable monthly fee, on the basis of usage.

• SaaS provides scalability. Large and small companies. You can quickly improve logistics applications and regulatory compliance solutions that are urgently needed to your competitiveness and visibility. Add other SaaS features and modulesTo broaden your requirements.

• SaaS can adapt. Quick adaptation to your specific operating, selling, administrative and accounting rules. Screen seen imitating reports and communications, such as your business and logistics supply chain management.

SaaS Software-as-a-service offering the best supply chain management technology at a price you afford to provide the results you need to get the productivity, visibility and profitability.If your current supply chain software is to give you the tools to not on-demand, or manage the coordination and cooperation to create desire, and is more of an issue as a distraction, and the results, maybe it is time to explore, to software - as-a-service supply chain management.



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