Types Of Supply Chain

MiX Telematics Partners with Intellichain to Provide Cross-platform Supply ...

Gert Pretorius, Managing Director of MiX Telematics (Enterprise), says,“In addition, the bespoke integration development capability expected to result from the partnership, will lead to a streamlined, integrated and customised solution for our customers, between their new and existing hardware and software systems.” “The value-add service will hereby enable our commercial fleet customers to optimise their business processes accordingly.” The enhanced integration capability will further enable MiX Telematics to provide fresh and valuable insights into their customers’ operations, helping them to reduce fleet operating costs and enhance overall levels of efficiency, effectiveness and productivity. Both MiX Telematics (mixtelematics.com) and Intellichain are acutely aware that the power of shared supply chain information in real-time and on an efficient basis, will be the only competitive advantage that matters for their customers in the future. “An intelligent technology approach and better use of real-time tracking information, equips customers in the supply chain arena with evolving functionality and provides them with a single view across their operation, thereby enabling effective management of operations and continuous business growth,” says Willem Cilliers, Managing Director Intellichain. Intellichain, founded in South Africa in 2005, specialises in the development of intelligent software solutions for fleet management and supply chain execution. Their modular offerings are extensive, assisting customers with network optimisation, hardware and software performance, and technological integration between multiple supply chain systems and processes. With an in-depth understanding of supply chain operations and a flexible business model, Intellichain provides highly customised and accessible solutions for all types of supply chain businesses. The modular nature of Intellchain’s offering provides clients with the benefit of implementing only the required modules, with the option of expanding the solution in the future. For a number of blue chip companies, Intellichain has enabled real-time visibility of revenue generation and robust control over all supply chain costs, resulting in significant performance improvement. newswire, PR free press releases distribution magazines engine news alert newsroom press room breaking news public relations articles company news alerts blogsIt younews.me newswiredistribution ezine younews.

Spend Matters: Segmenting the Supply Chain Risk Management Market ...

In the first two posts in this series ( Part 1 and Part 2 ), we examined two types of providers within the supply chain risk management provider market: platform vendors and best-of-breed/pure-play providers. In this final post, we'll conclude by examining characteristics of niche supply chain risk management providers, many of which tend to focus on content and web-based information services and aggregation that can provide supplier intelligence to companies in targeted areas. It's important to note that some vendors in this area (like VendorMate, which is focused primarily on managing vendor compliance down to the employee level in clinical healthcare settings -- hospitals, IDNs, etc.), often target a single industry or a single business process. In this regard, there are dozens of small providers we have not reviewed as part of our research in the past twelve months that may very well be invaluable for delivering supply chain risk insight for specific industries and areas.

Niche providers tend to focus primarily on one of two areas: automating the collection, management and analysis of compliance related information (e.g., certifications) and aggregating (or originating) and analyzing third-party data to help companies make better sourcing, supplier management, competitive intelligence and related decisions. Others may focus on enabling a single aspect of supply chain risk management (e.g., supplier performance management). Some of the vendors for consideration in the niche category -- many of which are not competitors in the least -- include Biznet, Browz, Exigis, Panjiva, Vendormate, SAS and Zepol. Among these niche content and software providers, revenue models vary substantially and may include both buyer and supplier-funded -- or even hybrid -- approaches.

A vertical focus still appears to be the norm for many of these vendors. For example, SAS has specialized in manufacturing risk/performance analytics in the past while Vendormate has opted to pursue the healthcare and financial services verticals. Biznet, as a leader in the supplier performance management market, has solid traction in oil and gas (and limited penetration in other verticals). In many cases, a vertical focus can help these providers tailor their solutions and deployment approaches within a particular industry to enable specific and often unique requirements and business processes.

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