EDI & The Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

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Improve how you interact with your supply-chain and business partners

Companies distributing consumer packaged goods (CPG) face serious challenges today. Intense pricing pressure at the retail level is eroding margins, while the cost of doing business continues to escalate.

From overcoming logistics challenges, to streamlining efficiencies, effective inventory management has become critical to companies doing business in the manufacturing and CPG industry. In fact, it represents their most realistic hope of driving simultaneous improvements in customer service, cash flow and profit margins. With flexibility and responsiveness key drivers of efficiency, increasingly global competitive pressure and shorter product life cycles have intensified the industry's challenge. Retailers demand that suppliers respond to their orders more quickly and more accurately.

Which is where EDI comes in: EDI has made B2B logistics and integration infinitely more efficient. It doesn't do all the work but a well orchestrated EDI deployment can vastly improve operational efficiencies, and improve how B2B and supply-chain partners interact.

From EDI to Secure Trading Partner Integration: A Complete Solution

CyberFusion Integration Suite (CFI)™, from Proginet, is a totally integrated business solution that enables organizations to securely manage and control their EDI process and address the various challenges of the CPG industry. CFI's EDI component, Commerce Server, is a full featured EDI document management system designed that allow manufacturers to seamlessly send and receive business documents across its entire supply and demand chain, and update its internal systems automatically. Commerce Server provides data transformation, business process management, and audit capabilities, all built on a robust, flexible document exchange platform.

CFI Commerce Server Key Features:

CFI's Internet Server module provides the connectivity between Commerce Server and your suppliers and trading partners, providing you with the flexibility of communicating in a variety of possible mechanisms, such as a value added network (VAN), or over the Internet using AS2, FTP, FTPS, SFTP or HTTPS. CFI's Platform Server helps further automate the process across platforms by provides the connectivity between the Commerce Server and your internal back-end applications. Finally, all activity within CFI can be controlled and managed from the Command Center, a centralized interface accessed from any standard Web browser.

Proginet's CFI, with its integrated Commerce Server, helps manufacturers effectively manage their inventory, logistics, and trading-partner relationships. The result? Better overall efficiencies, stronger customer relationships, and a likely increase in revenues and profitability.