Global Visibility and Inventory Control

Uncertainty. A company can't be prepared for problems that it doesn't know about. Are there orders a supplier can't meet due to quantity or timing? Where are the goods now that they've left the suppliers' facility?

With hundreds or even thousands of suppliers, total inventory investment is hard to pin down. Manufacturing outsourcing, JIT (Just in Time) and VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory) can cloud visibility into what stock exists where.

Since lead times vary widely, plans based on an "average" shipment can be ineffective. The unified picture needs to include all of your inventory; whether under your management or a trading partner's.

STEELMAN has leveraged the full scope of its logistics expertise to create the ability to have global visibility and inventory control. It provides an inventory snapshot across the supply chain so companies can better manage inventory levels.

This type of visibility has proven in may industries to help lower inventory costs by 15% to 20% and reduce expediting requirements by 50% or more.

Internet Based Tools

STEELMAN is an Internet-based solution for steel/metal supply chain visibility, services and logistics information data repositories. The tools provide a framework that delivers comprehensive order, inventory and event visibility across the enterprise. A customer's global supply chain event information is delivered in a single source that embraces all activities.

SEMS covers orders as they move through multiple organizations, transportation modes, and geographies. Plus, data representation and web access for supply chain monitoring is done using each customer's own terms and references.

• Combines logistics information, documents and workflow
• Incorporates status updates that have been received just seconds earlier
• Gives users real-time access to information about multiparty events for informed business decisions.
• Integrated exception alert engine automatically notifies users of changes, problems
• Monitors milestones like early/late arrival.
• Run queries based on any known details about a shipment
• Can be branded as customer's own value-added visibility service
  • Brand with customer's logo, terminology, etc.
• Customer's own reference information
  • Lets customers find their shipment and status information using their own PO number, sales order, line item, etc.

STEELMAN SEMS helps you gain visibility to the line-item level, enabling better decision-making relating to specific products and production orders. You can also foresee order failures before they happen and take corrective action to ensure efficiency.