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TradeBeam’s i-Supply Service Selected as e-Fulfillment Solution for GM Holden
San Mateo, CA, June 9, 2004—TradeBeam, Inc, a leading provider of global trade management solutions announced recently that Holden Ltd. a division of General Motors Corp. selected TradeBeam’s i-Supply Service application to align its service parts inventory with real-time customer requirements at its Service Parts Operation National Distribution Center in Melbourne, Australia. This e-Fulfillment application represents the first aftermarket customer under the GM Worldwide organization and first customer in Asia Pacific.
In order to respond more rapidly to changing fulfillment requirements, more efficiently manage parts inventory and synchronize activities throughout its supply chain, Holden’s National Distribution Center implemented TradeBeam’s i-Supply Service because of its unique ability to provide visibility into current on-hand inventories, in-transit shipment, and projected usage. In addition, the i-Supply solution enables suppliers to view forecast and consumption information (daily usage patterns), receive immediate feedback (and accessible history) on performance scorecard measurements, view shipment receipt information (and history) as reported directly from HSPO backend system(s). Moreover, this information can be easily exported in an Excel spreadsheet for internal distribution and reporting purposes.
TradeBeam implemented a pilot program with 15 of Holden’s high volume Tier-1 suppliers. Because of the success of this program, Holden and GM approved the transition of this pilot into a full production implementation and deployment to Holden’s top 300 suppliers (local and overseas), selected logistics providers and freight forwarders. The next phase of the production rollout includes implementation and deployment to Holden SPO’s customers and deeper integration with their selected logistics provider to meet their overall end-to-end vision of e-Fulfillment collaboration.
To date, the e-Fulfillment program has enabled Holden’s SPO operation to:
- Improve overall customer service levels
- Reduce excess inventory in the millions
- Minimize material follow-up activities
Moreover, the i-Supply powered e-Fulfillment application help suppliers to simplify their collaboration with Holden SPO using one common user interface. As a result, this application enables suppliers to:
- Improve planning and shipping activities
- Increase overall supplier ratings
- Reduce interruptions during planning and shipping processes and reduced safety stock levels
“i-Supply is a global solution and a proven technology that has driven significant results and improvements throughout the worldwide automotive supply chain and has received the stamp of support from the Holden Supplier Council,” said Leon Zangari Holden e-Fulfillment Project Manager. “It also is a perfect compliment to GM’s corporate direction of using collaborative technologies to streamline and improve supplier collaboration.”
Key attributes of i-Supply include real-time monitoring, replenishment of inventory levels, part usage history and patterns, forecast, in-transit inventories, receipts and other relevant information between manufacturers, suppliers, logistics providers with the end potential on connecting and disseminating critical information between all trading partners from sales to manufacturing. i-Supply is part of TradeBeam’s Global Trade Management Suite that was created to manage global supply and distribution chains, to optimize the Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash cycles for global trade.
“i-Supply will show impressive results within a very short time of implementation,” said Graham Napier, President and CEO of TradeBeam. “In less than 90 days Holden can significantly reduce costs and increase efficiencies within their supply chain and automate their manual processes.”
About TradeBeam
TradeBeam is a Global Trade Management company providing applications for managing the lifecycle of a trade across domestic and international order, logistics, and settlement activities to improve operating efficiencies and working capital.