Supply chain management is no longer just a matter of seeing your customer or suppliers activities. Its a matter of seeing your suppliers suppliers, your customers customers, knowing whats going on in real-time, and being able to react immediately to any snafus that crop

Integrated global supply chain management is a strategy that recognizes the significant cost and service improvements to be gained by viewing the supply chain as a whole, encompassing everything from initial supplier to final customer fulfillment. Recent studies reported in Logistics Management and Distribution Report indicated that lack of integration among supply chain partners contributed to lengthy cycle times and high costs for a variety of products. Take the all-important commodity of fish fingers. While it takes just 43 minutes to turn a ten-pound cod into bite-sized morsels, total cycle time for fish fingers from fishing dock through manufacturing through final sale is150 days. Now, imagine the millions of dollars tied up in inventory for higher value products such as pharmaceuticals, where certain products have cycle times of 465 days. Starnet Software India Limited brings to you the Solution for this.

StarSCMi use shared network of the World Wide Web holds enormous potential to connect partners in the supply chain. These supply chain partners can be linked via the Internet into a central database, which is electronically updated with the local market information on inventory levels, shipments, in-transits, etc. The example below shows inventory levels for a specific branch in five cities (four countries) throughout the world. The customer can query the system online and get immediate information, regardless of where in the world that source data resides.

This kind of real-time visibility to StarSCMi allows Management to make faster, better decisions on key issues such as inventory levels and purchasing requirements. Armed with this information, logistics planners can evolve their role from number crunchers to true strategists, assessing information like an air traffic controller evaluates and dictates flight patterns.

This is where the true value of the lead integrator is realized. The integrator facilitates the systems integration and maintains the central database of information. This data can be fed directly into the Starnets ERP or other management information system to be turned from data into knowledge.