Nexus Services

Nexus extended services layer helps move integrated business knowledge across organizational boundaries within an enterprise and between trade relationships on the global supply chain.

Nexus achieves this information extension and transformation through the provision of services to improve collaboration, connection, integration, and decision-making. Through its solution foundation and extended services, Nexus enables highly collaborative trading partner relationships and lays the table for advanced software applications for product security, global track and trace, and supply chain visibility. As a result, companies begin to build the foundation to truly transform their business performance and operational flexibility.

The Nexus extended service system provides key capabilities to help companies leverage serialization and pedigree information on a collaborative trade network. These include:

Trading Partner Collaboration Services
Supply Chain Connection Services
Enterprise Integration Services
Decision Support Services

Trading Partner Collaboration Services

Nexus collaboration services help trading partners share required profile information and synchronize business process capabilities.

The business process modeling facilities within Nexus let companies develop their own profiles which model the corporate, physical, and technical capabilities of the organization. Business units, subsidiaries, and physical locations can be described and captured. In addition, the technical capabilities of your operations and enterprise IT infrastructure can be detailed where needed to simplify trade connectivity.

Through the Nexus Trading Partner Directory, companies can securely publish business profiles and access the profiles of other current and potential trading partners. The Directory provides visibility into trading partner and business process information so that companies can collaborate across the network by automatically identifying, creating and maintaining trading partner connections.

The value chain administration capabilities of Nexus help operational leaders manage the developed trading partner network through business changes such as adding new collaborative business processes, modifying the members of the network, or handling organizational changes such as mergers and acquisitions.

Supply Chain Connection Services

Nexus connection services provide for efficient data connectivity across a trade relationship, moving serialization, serialized product pedigree, and other product and transaction information between partners. A broad range of B2B connectivity capabilities help companies easily connect to trading partners with great technical sophistication or limited IT capability.

In addition, Nexus provides a full featured, web-based Portal to expand trading partner collaboration capabilities to even the hardest to reach customers. Originally developed to help hospitals, clinics, and pharmacy store locations gain access to stored pedigree information, the Nexus Portal now offers extended capabilities that enable customer service opportunities at all points in the supply chain.

Enterprise Integration Services

Nexus packaged enterprise integration services reduce the barriers typically found in attempting to integrate business process applications into an existing enterprise IT infrastructure. The open integration architecture provides a tiered set of connectivity technologies to match the diverse IT capabilities found in companies across the life sciences supply chain. These include:

Standardized, certified, and field-tested ERP interfaces such as our "Powered by NetWeaver" solution for SAP R/3, ECC, and mySAP ERP
Tailored data interface layers that link disparate business applications together through exported data
Manual data entry interfaces for scenarios where integrated enterprise connectivity is limited
EPCIS event interface to provide future-proof extensibility as global serialization solutions are implemented

Decision Support Services

Nexus decision support and analysis services are the foundation for empowering users by providing raw and filtered operational information in a variety of formats.

Through a Web 2.0 user environment, the Nexus decision support services combine alerts, gauges, dashboards, and reports into an integrated environment. The result is that individual users, departments, and the organization as a whole gains rich access to real-time and periodically generated product, business operation, and supply chain activity information. Users can leverage this knowledge to make better informed decisions about the state of current product security, inventory shelf life, and other key areas of business performance.

Nexus: Cornerstone of SupplyScape Solutions for Life Sciences

Nexus is one of SupplyScape’s integrated solutions that help companies in the Life Sciences supply chain protect the safety and value of their products and business operations: