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Axis Communications AB, a world leader in network video, digital video surveillance, and PipeChain AB have entered into a partnership to visualize, control and automate Axis supply chain for incoming materials. Axis aims to create a more efficient supply chain through increased collaboration with suppliers, thereby reducing costs.

We see pioneering trends that embrace each other and will push Supply Chain Execution forward.  Some examples are; Demand Driven Supply Chain (adapting supplies to real needs, still hot), Supply Chain Visibility (hotter), OmniChannel Retailing (consumers buy through various channels, such as growing e-commerce, and relate to offers pushed in-store to their smartphones, new and hot).

Even today you find manual order processing and order generation based on bad forecasts, subjective assumptions and outdated re-ordering points. The result is delays, shortages and unnecessary costs.

The lack of order status creates delays and unnecessary costs in the supply chain. Even though most companies are able to take on this challenge, our experience is that they instead focus on internal improvement projects, missing an opportunity to increase efficiencies - and profits.

Pipechain has been asked to deliver an EDI solution to one of Sweden’s largest companies in the recycling industry.

Web portals are a good first step and provide a quick rollout. But they mean that your partners in the supply chain are working manually in two systems (portal and their own ERP system), leading to higher administration, the risk of manual errors and longer information lead times than necessary.

PipeChain launches a cloud-based EDI service for fast deployment of supply chain connectivity, with an unique ability to switch to local management later on. The service covers both integration and communication of business related transactions, and is built on technology from our partners Inobiz and Data Interchange.

PipeChain helps many retailing companies such as Absolut, Findus, Guldfågeln, Göteborgs Kex, Polfärskt Bröd/Polarbröd, Procter & Gamble and many others to greater competitiveness and large savings through more efficient processes in the supply chain.

Although many companies, integration consultants and integration services (Value Added Networks - VAN) have tried to create business integration between companies for decades, most corporate ERP systems are still poorly updated in terms of order status. It might seem like a detail, but it results in long information lead times, delayed reaction time, poor efficiency and reduced competitiveness in supply chains.