Flexibility
is an important prerequisite for any applications suite that is to
support diverse operations in the supply chain. Cadence is both flexible
and scalable and our team has deep experience applying those advantages
in multiple market segments.
Integrated Logistics Solutions
Performing different tasks for different people concurrently is the challenge of building a successful 3rd party logistics operation. In addition, the highly competitive nature of the business requires that users be able to respond in both efficient and cost-effective ways as customer expectations change over time.
Cadence sets up 3rd party service providers to win new business and expand existing business by offering new capabilities that go beyond the traditional receiving, storing, picking and shipping. The integrated Cadence suite of 3rd party logistics software products extends into order entry; web visibility of orders, inventory, and shipments; client-based rules for inventory, order processing, and customer service. Cadence not only helps you run your business more effectively, it also becomes a sales tool and a competitive edge.
Cadence is a rules-based system which is implemented differently, client by client, to accommodate their widely varying requirements. The full scope of services for inventory management, order handling, catalogs, pricing, kitting or light manufacturing, transportation, returns processing and salvage, invoicing, activity billing and external sales support. The range of these activities is limited only by the imagination.
At the same time, Cadence tracks all activities for accurate billing. Flexibility pertains here as well. Billing can be closely aligned with the relevant transactions and associated units of measure that fit a client’s business and are best suited to accurate and complete data capture and timely invoicing based on mutually agreed metrics.
Downstream, users feel confident in fine tuning the terms of bids and contracts for renewing or new business because they have a good handle on what their actual costs as well as the kinds of business which yield the most attractive profit margins.
3PL Software Fulfillment Services
3rd party fulfillment and in-house fulfillment services, much like 3rd party logistics, requires unique solutions to meet multiple client and customer needs. Cadence organizes product catalogs of warehouse inventory for rules-based order entry from all sources of orders (web storefront, call center, EDI, fax) for picking, packing and shipping. Cadence can handle complex client-product relationships including allocations, substitutes, complementary items for up-selling, pricing, credit card processing, and more. Advanced order processing utilizing kitting, promotional roll-out to distribution lists, same day shipping and customized labeling are but a few of the challenges Cadence helps to meet.
Cadence is particularly suited to literature fulfillment, product sample fulfillment and direct marketing response fulfillment. In each business model, Cadence provides efficiency, operational control and increased levels of service. All transactions (orders, receipts, picks, shipments, kits) are tracked for accurate billing and estimating of fulfillment service agreements. Cadence becomes a sales tool as well as an operational platform for fulfillment businesses.
3PL Inventory Software and Wholesale Distribution
Wholesale distribution, or asset based distribution is highly dynamic across almost every dimension – inventory performance, orders, customer requirements, transportation and labor productivity. Being successful requires the right kind of resources, planning and – most important – execution. Cadence may be the industry’s best tool to support execution in a distribution environment, arming both management and hourly workers with the tools to do their best using the web, a state-of-the-art WMS, RF, speech, RFID and the right kind of transportation and labor management.
Cadence gives distributors a distinct advantage by coupling the necessary inventory and operational processes with customer service, order entry and financial management processes. Since it is designed around the warehouse, inventory availability is considerably more accurate. That means better customer service. The system can also manage hybrid distribution businesses where some inventory is owned by the distribution business and other inventory is consigned.
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