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Supply Chain Execution

Increase performance and visibility of your Supply Chain

What is Supply Chain Management?
"Supply Chain Management encompasses the planning and management of all activities involved in sourcing and procurement, conversion, and all logistics management activities. Importantly, it also includes coordination and collaboration with channel partners, which can be suppliers, intermediaries, third-party service providers, and customers. In essence, supply chain management integrates supply and demand management within and across companies. Supply Chain Management is an integrating function with primary responsibility for linking major business functions and business processes within and across companies into a cohesive and high-performing business model. It includes all of the logistics management activities noted above, as well as manufacturing operations, and it drives coordination of processes and activities with and across marketing, sales, product design, finance and information technology." The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
Standart commerce operation starts with Supply Chain and ends with Customer Services. As the commerce volume increases, the need for more professional, more reliable solutions arises. Paper based business or business running on old software needs to be transitioned into a more technological, faster, flexible and traceble business.

Buton eBusiness Solutions together with its global supply chain software partners provides best of breed supply chain solutions in almost all possible stages of an enterprise commerce scenario.

Plan

Make decisions,
plan and optimize

Execute

Execute your plans and Increase
visibility of your Supply Chain

Integrate

Sync with Other Software

Sell

Get Orders

Inside

Visibility inside the organization

Outside

Visibility outside the organization
Warehouse
Management
Manufacturing
Execution
Labor
Management
Yard
Management
3rd Party
Visibility
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HighJump

HighJump Software is a global provider of a full suite of supply chain management software that streamlines the flow of inventory and information from supplier to store shelf. HighJump supply chain management software manages the flow of inventory and information from supplier through manufacturing, distribution and EDI solutions all the way to direct store delivery. More than 4,500 customers worldwide have transformed their supply chains using HighJump Software. Gartner reports that HighJump customer references call attention to HighJump’s flexibility and willingness to establish a partnership-type relationship with customers.

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Warehouse Management

Best-of-Breed Intelligent Solutions at the core

Space, inventory, equipment and people. Optimizing your distribution operations requires you to effectively manage all of these important resources. Selecting the right warehouse management system (WMS) is imperative to keep inventory moving and customer shipments on schedule. We provide the means to ensure fast, accurate fulfillment through directed, optimized workflow.

The HighJump™ WMS manages some of the most highly-regulated and complex distribution environments in the world. The HighJump™ warehouse management system gives companies across industries a foundation of best practices for receiving, put-away/flow-through, inventory management, order processing, replenishment, pick/pack, loading and shipping, as well as the ability to build their own company-specific businesses processes using our adaptability tools.

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International Operations

HighJump™ Software offers full support for your multinational facilities and supply chain processes. HighJump operates in multiple geographies, which gives you the assurance that both your domestic and international operations can be effectively supported. HighJump Warehouse Advantage has been fully Unicode-enabled and ships with nine languages, including English, Japanese, simplified Chinese, Czech, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese and Turkish.

Adaptability Tools

While the robust standard functionality of HighJump Warehouse Advantage incorporates industry best practices, HighJump also empowers you to go above and beyond typical business processes by building your own unique workflows into the system. HighJump Software’s core architecture enables you to easily adapt the system to meet your specific needs—without the use of custom code—in a fraction of the time of conventional systems, and at a fraction of the cost. And because all changes are external to the core software, upgrades and support are not compromised. This helps keep total cost of system ownership low.

Executive Visibility

HighJump™ Performance Advantage combines the latest graphical dashboarding technology with industry-developed standards to produce real-time and comparative dashboards using your own data from your HighJump system and other business systems. This can empower your team with timely, meaningful information to enable significant process improvements.

Benchmark Your Performance Over Time
  • Track industry-specific key performance indicators (KPIs) over time to monitor and improve performance
  • You may also build and incorporate your own company-specific KPIs
  • Drill down to perform root cause analysis when a KPI is below an expected performance threshold

Integrate!

State of the art, Advantage Link suite enables seemless integrations capabilities using many communication methods like TCPIP sockets, flat file communications, XML web services or through SQL or ORACLE databases. Not only you can communicate with the material handling equipment in your site but also connect your Host systems using:
  • Advantage Link For SAP
  • Advantage Link for Oracle Open Interface/ Advantage Link for PeopleSoft
  • Advantage Link for AX - Microsoft Axapta
  • Advantage Link For Microsoft SQL Server
  • Advantage Link For ODBC, Flat File
  • Advantage Link For COM/DCOM, DLL,XML
  • Advantage Link For AS/400 On-Line/ IBM MQ Series
  • Advantage Link for TCP/IP Sockets


Warehouse Advantage
Functionality Shortlist

  • Receiving
    Inbound Order Receipt, ASN receipt, Vendor receipt, Unknown receipt, Production receipt and more
  • Cross-docking
  • Rules-based put-away
    Rules-based directed picking
    FIFO, FEFO, LIFO, LEFO, pick to clean, pick to efficiency
    Movements
    Directed movement, Directed Pickup, Move request
  • Picking
    Batch picking, Wave picking, Zone picking, Bulk picking, Container/Order picking, Progressive pick and more
  • Packing
  • Loading
    Loading audit
  • Shipping
    Warehouse transfers
    Transfer out, Transfer in,
  • Replenishments
  • Kitting
    Kit request, Kit picking, Kit completion, Kit teardown
  • Quality control
    Administration
    Cycle counts, Inventory adjustments, Physical
  • Advanced warehousing features
    Labor management, Appointment scheduling/yard management, Slotting optimization, Wave planning, Load planning, Value-added services, Optimized container packing, Billing management, RFID compliance, Task interleaving
  • Inventory tracking
    Lot control, Dynamic tracking of item attributes (i.e. manufacturer date, owner, style, color, size, etc.)

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Manufacturing Execution

Low Total Cost of Ownership for Your Shop Floor and Warehouse

The HighJump manufacturing execution system (MES) is built to meet the challenges of discrete, multi-step operations in both work order & demand driven manufacturing environments. HighJump’s MES bridges the disconnect between the traditional MES and warehouse management system (WMS), enabling optimal inventory flow throughout the shop floor.

Orchestrate Labor, Machines, Schedules and Materials

The HighJump MES coordinates key aspects of production, including resources, materials and schedules. Planners can easily dispatch schedule changes to the shop floor electronically, eliminating the time, labor and errors associated with paper-based distribution. Once released, work against the schedules may be viewed and managed in real time by planners, supervisors and management.

Manufacturing Shop Floor Touch Screen

HighJump’s manufacturing execution system allows you to leverage shop floor touch screens running a Web browser to streamline the flow of critical information and simplify the reporting and viewing of information in real time. HighJump Software’s single, all-inclusive Web user interface electronically links documentation and work orders directly to the shop floor. Our shop floor employees have immediate access to drawings, quality control documents and process preparation guides. Because of its simplicity and intuitive design, the shop floor touch screen enables rapid learning and lowers employee training costs—not to mention quick and easy upgrades for the IT team.

Handling Complex Genealogy

The HighJump MES provides the shop floor execution and visibility needed to effectively deal with complex genealogy and traceability requirements. Using data from the automation layer or transactions from shop floor workers, the system ties lot numbers, serial numbers or other data to the appropriate finished goods, as well as back to the work order or demand signal. The robust data model and transaction history enable a variety of Web-based reports for viewing unit histories, genealogies and part traceability.

Manufacturing Quality Management

Acquiring quality data and interpreting results are key aspects of creating products that meet your stringent standards. The HighJump manufacturing execution system (MES) allows quality management to track product quality levels, and if necessary, quickly implement an updated quality plan to further refine the test result data being collected.


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Labor Management

Plan, Measure and View Labor Activities Within Your Organization

HighJump™ Labor Advantage, gives you the ability to plan, measure and track labor activities within your organization to increase efficiency. Objectively measure employee performance and identify those whose performance consistently exceeds the standard, as well as employees who need assistance. The HighJump LMS enables you to create individual performance standards, enabling each employee to see what is expected and how he or she is performing against that standard throughout the day.

Visibility tools allow you to monitor progress against the production plan in real time throughout the work day, allowing you to detect inefficiencies and take corrective action

Benefits

  • Reduce labor costs and increase efficiency
  • Improve associate morale
  • Leverage strong management tools and metrics
  • Reduce dependence upon temporary labor
  • Appropriately plan your workload
  • Enable a self-directed work force


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Yard Management

Simplify Yard Transactions With Graphical Drag-and-Drop Functionality

Warehouse management efficiency has a direct correlation to inventory optimization throughout the supply chain. Accomplishing this requires you to truly maximize inventory flow not only inside your warehouse, but also as inventory enters and leaves the yard outside.

The HighJump™ Yard Advantage yard management system (YMS) provides real-time information, intelligent work direction and complete visibility of trucks, trailers, drivers, goods and materials—from the moment they arrive at the gate to the moment they leave your facility. With a graphical interface, you can manage yard transactions easily. Drag-and-drop functionality converts on-screen trailer moves into RF-directed work for yard drivers. At-a-glance symbols display key information such as trailer type, status, disposition, ownership, which trailers are damaged/out of service, and fuel remaining in refrigerated vehicles.

Track the location of trailers and other equipment—no matter where it ends up in the yard—with RFID-based, real-time location tracking. This ensures security and streamlines workflows by providing you with the actual position of equipment in the yard, eliminating time-consuming searches for misplaced trailers. Additionally, dynamic appointment scheduling capabilities will streamline dock assignments, helping to ensure you don’t double book docks—even if circumstances change at the last minute.




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Supplier Enablement

Strengthen Supplier Communication

Your ability to meet customer demand is directly determined by your suppliers’ ability to deliver. But you are likely facing a continuous battle with extended cycle times, material shortages, unplanned receipts, high inventory and transportation costs, vendor compliance issues and difficulty reconciling invoices. These problems could be resolved by having system-to-system communication between you and your suppliers using supplier enablement software.

HighJump™ Supplier Advantage supplier enablement software empowers you to dramatically increase the speed of receiving operations, lower inventory levels and push work such as labeling to your suppliers—whether they're around the corner or across the ocean. A secure Web portal provides the basis for real-time information sharing and improved inventory visibility, critical factors in enhancing collaboration and streamlining supply chain operations. Achieving and maintaining collaboration between your distribution center and your supplier network reduces cycle times through real-time communication of demand, order status and potential exceptions. HighJump Supplier Advantage also incorporates robust event management functionality to promote proactive issue identification and resolution. This reduces costs by alerting managers and suppliers (via e-mail, pager, fax or phone) to supply chain events and exceptions.