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Datalliance Delivers New Release of Vendor Managed Inventory Service
- New release focuses on enhancing planner productivity, exception handling, and reporting capabilities .
Cincinnati, Ohio, February 13, 2008 -
Datalliance®, the leading independent provider of Vendor Managed
Inventory (VMI) services, today announced the immediate availability of
the latest release of the Datalliance VMI service. Enhancements in this
latest release help the planner to be more productive and efficient in
their order review process, fine tune exception reporting capabilities,
and increase location grouping reporting ease of use and functionality.
The Datalliance VMI service is delivered as a managed service via the
Internet using the 'Software as a Service' (SaaS) model. Datalliance
makes it easy for suppliers and their customers to fully align business
objectives, improve collaboration, and streamline supply chain
operations.
Enhancement Highlights:
Planner Productivity
Planner productivity enhancements related to order review and launch
process allow planners to manage additional distributor exceptions and
improve overall usability. Enhancements provide planner with ability
to:
- Access ordering comments via PO Worksheet details
- Exclude items from being suggested for transfer
- Create two orders from a single PO Worksheet
- Include changed items to distributor level in Post Launch email report
Alert Text
Alerts text enhanced to include additional item specific information
(detailed data such as actual on-hand value, etc.) to improve
Planner-Buyer communication.
New Report
Three new reports enhance interface for creating, maintaining,
reviewing and auditing Supplier Scheduled reports based on location
groupings.
- Period to Date Report - Provides year over year view of demand for a Location Grouping.
- Items Not Selling Report - Identifies, at location level, active items with positive on-hand inventory, yet no sales in past three weeks.
- Authorized Items Report
- Identifies items that are part of a specific product mix that have
not been reported, as well as items actively inventoried and sold that
are outside of a specific product mix.
About Datalliance
Datalliance is the world's largest
independent VMI service provider, processing over $6 billion in orders,
9.2 million SKUs, and 19,500 locations in 2007. Delivered as a managed
service via the Internet using the 'Software as a Service' (SaaS)
model, Datalliance VMI makes it easy for suppliers and their customers
to establish effective VMI relationships that fully align business
objectives, improve collaboration, and streamline supply chain
operations. Datalliance serves leading Fortune 1000 companies such as
Philips, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and SKF.
Contact: Brian Lindner, Datalliance
513-791-7272 or blindner@datalliance.com
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