BUSINESS REALITY

• Global customer base
• Ad-hoc replenishment needs
• Non-compliance penalties/charges
• Distant manufacturing
• Shipping cost containment

OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES

• In-transit inventory trace-ability
• Re-routing on short notice
• Frequent expedites
• Analysis of shipping & delivery trends

THE OPSVEDA SOLUTION

• Current view of In-transit inventory

  Current View of In-transit Inventory

  With real-time integration to carrier tracking sites, OpsVeda – Product in Transit, provides the most current status about your shipments at any point of time. This comprehensive application allows for detailed drill down by location, route and stage of inventory. It also provides a detailed breakdown by product groups, by dollarized lot value, product type and shipping location.

• Order linked alerts about likely delays

  Order linked Alerts about likely Delays

  The OpsVeda—Product in Transit application continuously monitors the actual shipment progress against the plan. A delay at any stage is compared to buffers and any changes in plan, to alert the sales operations team to the potential delivery delay. Apart from the carrier provided plan, the operations team can set up their own predefined milestones to detect unexpected events.

• Route change impact analysis

  Route Change Impact Analysis

  Unpredictable weather and traffic conditions often require shipments to be re-routed. The search feature of OpsVeda allows the operations manager to quickly zero in on shipments headed to certain locations or hubs and redirect them where necessary. Some times redirections would be necessitated by customer actions (eg. rush order). Here also the operations personnel can leverage the search feature to identify lower priority shipments that may be redirected and are in proximity to the customer.

• Configurable graphs & reports

  Configurable Graphs & Reports

  With an increase in geographic spread of the supply chain, shipping costs have come under the spot-light more often than before. For the sales operations team it is probably the biggest cost element they can directly control. OpsVeda—Product in Transit, provides a host of reports that allows the team to analyze shipping & delivery trends. Further it allows them to configure their own reports without any IT assistance and do the necessary tracking and management.