Streamlined Global Sourcing And Trade Management

Your global retail supply chain is an intricate and data-intensive undertaking, made more complicated by the dynamics of trade and labor regulations. For many retailers, the management of global sourcing and trade partnerships is a burdensome task, fraught with the inefficiencies of disparate and legacy systems for negotiation, supplier on-boarding, compliance, documentation, and logistics. However, within all that intricacy lie incredible opportunities; opportunities for dramatic cost savings, efficiency gains, and risk mitigation. Those opportunities and your ability to capitalize on them are dependent on your ability to converge disparate sourcing and trade management activities and consolidate them on a platform that enables visibility, intelligence, and action. Recent advances in Java and Web technologies have made yesterday's vision of global sourcing and trade management efficiency today's reality. This paper will outline that reality by holistically detailing how the Arigo Vendor Portal, a recently-launched trading partner management solution, provides an automated, global view of your supply chain in real-time. We'll explore how enabling global visibility and collaboration across your retail trading partner network in real-time improves workflow, empowers decision makers with dashboard intelligence, ensures compliance, and provides score-carding capabilities that enable efficient management and monitoring of trading partner performance.