By giving you access to timely demand and supply information from all tiers of suppliers, GXS Order Lifecycle Visibility allows you to consistently deliver your products on time and avoid stock-outs, while maximizing inventory turns. With Order Lifecycle Visibility, you can:

• Optimize Inventory: Reduce inventory holding costs and avoid lost sales due to stock outages by optimizing inventory levels throughout your supply chain. Order Lifecycle Visibility aggregates all demand and supply data into a centralized data repository and delivers appropriate views to all levels of decision makers within your organization—allowing them to make critical stocking decisions based on real-time demand.
• Reduce Labor Costs: By defining business processes and utilizing the configurable event notifications and exception alerts available, your buying organization can avoid having to track the status of each order. This frees them to focus on what really matters—getting more savings.
• Reduce the Total Cost of Ownership: As a hosted solution, Order Lifecycle Visibility provides an overall reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) by leveraging existing supply chain integration systems and investments. It provides supply chain execution functionality as a service and avoids the capital cost required by internally licensed software.

Overview

GXS Order Lifecycle Visibility consolidates all order-related information into a central repository and delivers powerful business process automation and event monitoring tools that allow you to automate routine transactions and centrally manage the order information in a 100% paper-free environment.

GXS Community Link^SM for 100% Supplier Participation— With over 35 years of experience helping our customers to ramp and manage trading communities, GXS has developed best practices for community collaboration, education, testing and support—helping to ensure that No Trading Partner is Left Behind. The company’s global presence and breadth of solutions ensures that GXS can ramp even the smallest suppliers.

Features

• Integrated Visibility: Monitor the status and related processes of a purchase order including PO history, shipments, invoices and payments by querying the Order Lifecycle Visibility database using 13 predefined criteria or Boolean search.
• Supply Chain Event Monitoring: Over 100 configurable business rules, event notifications and exception alerts help your organization be aware of current status and developing trends.
• Collaboration: Shared data stores allow buyers and sellers to obtain shared views of the same information.
• Supplier Performance Management: Measure suppliers' acknowledgement of documents sent via EDI using the Document Acknowledgement Report. Additionally, create ad-hoc reports that track the performance metrics you wish to measure.