Nexus: Global Supply Chain Collaboration
Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Sales Operations, and other business leaders face multiple challenges in today’s global life sciences supply chain. Serialization and pedigree regulations in the United States are taking force across the country. These requirements are matched by global serialization, reimbursement, and other track and trace requirements in the European Union and other regions.
Simultaneously, pricing pressures, higher new product introduction costs, and heightened channel competition are putting a premium on optimizing supply chain operations. As a result, companies are looking to leverage their business investments in serialization and pedigree wherever possible both within their enterprise operations and across supply chain relationships to improve financial performance and gain competitive advantage.
Nexus Empowers the Supply Chain Network
SupplyScape’s Nexus is a powerful new business and supply chain collaboration solution that takes the rich information encoded in serialization and pedigree data and mobilizes it to business operations and users within the four walls and out to your trading partners.
Delivered on a robust software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed for the unique needs of the life science industry, the Nexus network-based services foundation feeds advanced business process solutions to maximize your ability to leverage precise and timely product and transaction information for business value. Connecting pharmaceutical manufacturers, outsourced service providers, wholesale distributors and pharmacies on a collaborative trade partner ecosystem, Nexus unlocks the power of the global supply network.
Why Nexus?
The Nexus services-oriented architecture (SOA) is engineered to remove the complexity of connecting information to business processes to increase its business value. Unique solution capabilities include:
- Integrated Serialization and Pedigree Data Management A secure, integrated data repository links serialized product and pedigree information to a variety of other enterprise and supply chain information.
- Business Process Modeling Describe your business operations, technical capabilities, and physical attributes and publish them to a secure network-enabled directory for efficient trading partner connection and ease-of-maintenance.
- Trade Partner Management Build your trading partner network by accessing the pre-configured trading partner profiles—simplifying the connection to one or one thousand partners. Collaboration techniques borrowed from social networking let you quickly on-ramp and manage partners to save months of integration time and drastically reduce operational costs.
- Broad Enterprise Integration Protect existing enterprise IT investments by using the Nexus open integration architecture. A flexible integration interface simplifies connectivity with SAP®, Oracle®, and other enterprise, serialization, and edge device systems through EPCIS, XML, and other integration technologies.
- Flexible Supply Chain Connectivity Leverage existing B2B connectivity solutions or utilize new browser-based Portal access to share serialized product and pedigree information with your trading partners.
- Operations and Supply Chain Event Management Capture granular events from business operations and supply chain activities, publishing them to business applications and users.
- Advanced User Control Interface The rich Nexus Web 2.0 user environment features an extensive set of alerts, gauges, dashboards, and reports to monitor your business and your trade partner ecosystem and improve decision-making.
To help companies gain immediate value from the Nexus network foundation, SupplyScape offers a suite of advanced business process applications that leverage serialization and pedigree information for secure regulatory compliance, robust product security, and global track and trace applications. Our business applications are designed to tackle the unique challenges faced by all members of the global life sciences supply chain, from manufacturing and packaging to pharmacy and hospital dispensation.
