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DiCentral Unveils Revolutionary Scan-Based Trading Solution
"Retail Suppliers Now Have All In One Scan-Based Capabilities"Houston, Texas - (BUSINESS WIRE) - DiCentral, Inc., a leading provider of supply chain software applications for the retail industry, today introduced DiCentral for Scan-based Trading (SBT), a new offering that incorporates EDI, Sales Analysis, and Demand Management into a single source. This increases profit for both the retailer and supplier by reducing the cost of implementation and maintenance and allows greater visibility into the business flow.
DiCentral’s SBT program provides manufacturers with a workbench to aggregate, correlate, and reconcile information associated with SBT transactions. A simple, cost-effective business strategy for suppliers asked to participate in SBT by companies such as Safeway, Kroger and H.E.B., DiCentral's solution improves a retail supplier’s ability to manage inventory across the supply chain.
SBT offers manufacturers many cost savings and operational benefits, including lower inventory levels for the supplier and decreased order administration costs to both supplier and retailer. Traditionally, companies have been reluctant to use SBT, due to high implementation costs with no clear ROI. With this innovative program, companies have EDI, SBT, Forecasting, GDSN and trading partner management provided in a modular, easy to integrate architecture. Industry expertise and an ASP platform provide a clear method for both scale and cost-effective growth for manufacturers and brokers in the retail/CPG sector.
According to Jim Cantrell, Director of Enterprise Sales for DiCentral, "SBT programs are strong initiatives for many manufacturers because they provide compelling top-and-bottom line growth for both retailer and supplier. By expanding our product suite to also include SBT, we can deliver comprehensive supply chain management solutions to the industry at a price point designed to increase adoption."
Key features and functions in the DiCentral SBT program include:
- Integration to Inventory
- Integration to POS
- Compare product activity to Inventory
- User defined business rules generate demand
- Generate an order
- Reporting capability (down to item/location)
- Track in-transit inventory
- Manage inventory Model stock
Additional features of the system include:
- Hosted, sales analysis w/automatic roles/permission-based distribution.
- Forecasting capability
- Broker and single supplier versions
- Category management
- Built-in (hosted) EDI translation and mapping to VMI application