Nexus Platform
Businesses live on the visibility and control they have on their operations and their value chains. The foundation of this visibility and control relies on being connected to the key people, business units, partners, and products that make up a value chain network. These connections range from sharing data to synchronizing processes and enabling user collaboration.
"The 'value' or 'power' of a network increases in proportion to the square of the number of connection points on the network."Robert Metcalfe, Co-inventor of the Ethernet
Connect each of these value chain dimensions and gain an important new element in driving your business forward:
Businesses. Link business units together and break down internal silos to provide an enterprise-wide view of your operations and the influence on those operations of your value chain.
Partners. Integrate and synchronize your trading partners, both direct and indirect, and gain greater insight into the product and financial flows that impact your business. Instead of historical knowledge gained through periodic analysis, discover immediate knowledge into current value chain operations.
Products. As a manufacturer, define the common and unique attributes of your product portfolios and make them openly available to your trading partners. Distributors, pharmacy chains, and other downstream trading partners, gain access to these predefined product profiles to improve your product security and trade reconciliation performance.
People. On-ramp your people into the value chain and give them new perspectives on business operations and value chain activities. Move beyond traditional passive dashboards and connect your people to live, interoperable control platforms, resulting in users with insight and hands-on control that provides a competitive edge.
Key Value Chain Foundation
SupplyScape's Nexus Platform provides the fundamental foundation, built on a standard Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), that enables companies to link together and synchronize their value chains. Nexus leverages accessible core services, role-based user interfaces, powerful administration capabilities, and a unified data model based on pedigree value chain master data. SupplyScape's applications take advantage of this foundation to provide a new level of discovery and interoperability between product security and trade financial domains.
Value Chain Modeling and Administration
Nexus allows you to identify and define your complete value chain network. Model your enterprise by describing your business units, facilities and other logical entities. Next, configure how you work with your direct and indirect trading partners, describing the business processes that you share and the rules governing those processes. Finally, define your value chain users by outlining their unique roles and determining the permissions they have.
Value Chain Integration
Nexus provides the tools to help you quickly and securely integrate your value chain. Utilize a range of industry standard Web Services and EPCIS interfaces to connect the applications to your enterprise systems and to your trading partners. Nexus helps define the required data flows, data formats, and synchronization protocols to ensure smooth interoperability between key systems. Fully supporting existing investments in B2B gateways and IT composition tools such as SAP NetWeaver and webMethods, Nexus brings up your value chain fast and efficiently.
Data Exchange Platform
Once your value chain has been configured and integrated, leverage Nexus data exchange to configure and monitor secure access to pedigree value chain master data. Define the rights and permissions for sharing data among each of your trade relationships. Configure the granularity of your data exchange down to the individual field level. Finally, manage and monitor the data exchange, ensuring that data sharing agreements are met and service levels achieved.
Event Platform
"Demand-Driven Supply Network leaders have 15% lower inventory, 17% better order fulfillment, and 35% shorter cash-to-cash cycle times than the average... it's about visibility and control."Roddy Martin, VP and General Manager - Life Sciences, AMR Research [2007]
Nexus provides a core event services platform, allowing users, systems, and applications the ability to publish and subscribe to important events on your value chain. Value chain-level and application-specific events are made available to all Nexus users, enhancing interoperability and improving visibility into the health and welfare of business operations.
User Interface Framework
Sitting atop the core Nexus platform services is an advanced Web 2.0 user interface framework. These user interface services are made available to all Nexus applications, providing a consistent user experience while giving users a new level of multidimensional insight into their businesses and tasks. From common dashboard interfaces and visualization tools to a broad range of business controls, the Nexus Platform interface give your business a powerful decision-making and discovery capability.
