BridgePoint Introduces iPlex Analytics With Enhanced Supply Chain Reporting To Simplify Decision Making

BridgePoint, Inc. (www.bridge-point.com), the leading provider of global, multimode supply chain visibility and exception management solutions announced today the release of a new version of iPlex Analytics with an enhanced supply chain reporting. iPlex Analytics, offered as a separate module, extends BridgePoint's iPlex solution footprint by providing clients an effective way to transform the enormous levels of available supply chain data into the useable knowledge needed to make informed business decisions about how to improve performance, better manage inventories and control logistics costs.

BridgePoint's iPlex aggregates, filters and correlates historical and tactical data collected from global supply chain sources using BridgePoint's existing data collection and management tools. It then assembles this data into a dedicated data warehouse and mines it using sophisticated analytical tools. The analysis process is further streamlined by offering standard supply chain reports immediately available out-of-the-box. These reports simplify the identification and understanding of significant performance trends from across the supply chain.

In addition, BridgePoint's iPlex Analytics now fuses transactional and analytical content into a single data source that dramatically decreases the latency of information. This information is then available to perform what-if scenarios and root cause analyses. Combined with the visibility and exception management tools standard in iPlex, companies now have the ability to establish intelligent alerts to improve current processes, the collective knowledge of activities needed to identify untapped value and the tools necessary to take direct action to mitigate risk.

"iPlex Analytics is designed to break through the data clutter and assist in making critical day-to-day decisions as well as more strategic ones," says Peter Sola, vice president of commercial services at BridgePoint. "We've taken a holistic approach to information understanding by adding features like traffic lighting, simultaneous analysis and report cataloging to help users quickly determine what's important to them at that instant."

BridgePoint's iPlex Analytics includes a set of standard reports and the flexibility to build custom reports using a built in report wizard. The report wizard enables clients to quickly build and save these reports for repeated use. Standard and custom reports are then managed and interpreted using an intuitive look and feel, and drill through searches to further simplify understanding.

About BridgePoint
BridgePoint, a wholly owned company of CSX Corporation, is headquartered in the Research Triangle Community of North Carolina's Raleigh/Durham area. They are the premier provider of global, multimode supply chain visibility solutions that enable companies to streamline the delivery of product internationally by better coordinating the activities of partners, systems and resources internal and external to the enterprise. The result is the dramatic acceleration of product through the supply chain, the reduction of days of inventory and the elimination of costs in the areas of customer service, order financing and product distribution.