Today, businesses operate in a complex and demanding environment. Shortened product life cycles and the increase in product complexity have placed several challenges on companies in serving its customers. Customers are demanding more flexibility and reduced lead times. Companies are looking to increase the transparency in their supply chains with increased visibility to orders, inventory, and logistics data to enable better and more real-time decision support. In addition, companies are trying to close the loop between the traditionally discrete planning and execution processes.

The solution is designed to enable a wide range of functionality to provide relevant information around orders, inventory, and logistics in the context of the relevant business process. It can further enhance employee productivity through the creation, management, and notification of proactive alerts and exceptions.

FreightMatrix capabilities include:

• Order tracking through its entire lifecycle—from creation to delivery
• Track and trace inventory—view and manage inventory across multiple locations and states
• Carry out associated execution processes such as order creation, changes and acceptance, order collaboration with suppliers and service providers
• Visibility of inventory positions
• Differing views by role—buyer, supplier, logistics analyst or 3PL
• Proactive monitoring of execution processes including alerts, exceptions, configurable tolerances and modification of rules-triggering events
• Visibility to associated transactions with support of associated EDI messages including purchase orders, routing requests, ASN, in-transit updates and receipts
• Rapid supplier enablement and on-boarding to enable transactions to be completed solely through the web browser