IES Dramatically improve the performance of your import supply chain. Immediately shave days off of total cycle time, hold less inventory, reduce total landed costs, improve fulfillment decisions and create a new level of visibility and control throughout your business. With IES Purchase Order Direct, orders are electronically managed with your overseas suppliers with a simple, web-based portal. Suppliers can easily log in, access their purchase orders, report on production status with milestones, and update ready dates.

Since changes to purchase order quantities, SKUs or ready dates are made online; you can focus your efforts and manage the entire process by exception. The end result is improved supplier compliance to fill rates and ship windows to help meet your desired need dates. Realize the next level of standardization and control throughout any supply chain network by managing the labeling at your factories.

Rather than relying upon a third party to generate and deliver labels to the factory days before shipping, IES labeling solutions allow the factories to produce their own labels using the latest barcode and RFID technologies reducing costs and increasing allocation flexibility. Build shipments either direct from the factory as a full container or as a delivery to your local warehouse or logistics provider. Inventory goods for future replenishment and manage sea freight consolidations and inbound routings to efficiently fulfill your ever-changing distribution plans.

Since inventory is tracked through the entire process, allocations can be made at any time to ship hot items by air freight and fulfill promotional demands. IES Purchase Order Direct offers the fastest cycle time, up to 60% faster, to deliver goods direct-to-store. Add IES DC Bypass to provide last-minute allocation from inventory on the- water to quickly respond to changes in your domestic distribution plan as goods are moving through Customs.

Use IES technology to not only manage your supply chain from visibility to allocation, but send your data to AMS, clear Customs, produce shipment documents, communicate directly with carriers, satisfy all regulations and observe C-TPAT throughout the shipment.

Key Benefits:

• Immediately shave days off of total cycle time, hold less
inventory, reduce landed cost and improve fulfillment
decisions

• Manage any supply chain by exception

• End reliance on third party label vendors to increase
allocation flexibility

• End-to-end Web visibility to inventory and warehouse

• Complete support for EDI and XML messaging

• Simplify vendor, inventory and forecasting management

• Automatic distribution of e-mail notifications

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DC Bypass Software Module.