Global Commerce Management: Blinco Systems Announces the Next Generation in Global Sourcing

IMMEDIATE – Toronto
Blinco Systems Inc., developer of 3rdwave global sourcing, trade management, distribution and synchronized supply chain execution solutions, announces the release of 3rdwave Global Commerce Management (“3rdwave GCM”). Built on a powerful global data repository, 3rdwave GCM is a completely integrated solution that guarantees a real-time, 360º view of all shipments with comprehensive purchase-to-pay capabilities – at owned or non-owned facilities – to the SKU-level across all international borders. 3rdwave GCM is one of the few solutions that can independently support a global sourcing division of a company, and/or can be effectively integrated with a larger ERP system. 3rdwave GCM’s depth can also provide enterprise capabilities to small to mid-size distribution companies.

Ned Blinick, Blinco Systems’ VP, Sales & Marketing said, “In the last 10 years, there’s been a significant increase in companies that source goods and materials offshore. Almost all ERP applications were developed for a manufacturing rather than a global sourcing business model.”

Blinick went on to say, “ERP systems can manage manufacturing systems, but they don’t fully support all the business processes needed for the complete sourcing and flow of products across geographies between manufacturing facilities. Many companies running these large applications back fill this functionality by bolting on or putting together multiple asynetric solutions, such as a trade management, purchasing and/or logistics’ point solution(s). But each of these solutions only manages part of the process, and not the entire global order and logistics’ processes. These point solutions have functional depth, but only in their specific area of coverage, so user companies are missing one of the most powerful ways to leverage their assets in the supply chain: that is, by integrating and synchronizing all information across their organization’s functional silos. 3rdwave GCM is designed as a complete purchase-to-pay global commerce solution and it eliminates these gaps.”

Blinick noted, “3rdwave GCM allows companies to finally manage their global sourcing and logistics in a way that achieves significant bottom-line results. The value in 3rdwave GCM is that the product, finance and information supply chains are all fully synchronized thus optimizing the way companies really do global business.”

In a recent white paper on the executive business case that global commerce management supports operating excellence (sponsored by Blinco Systems), it was noted that, “While different industries and companies are moving at different speeds, global sourcing strategies are rapidly evolving for most from being a source of potential differentiation to simply a requirement for market competitiveness. Achieving these potential benefits of global sourcing, however, often means overcoming significant supply chain challenges. The effectiveness with which global commerce management strategies are executed can, in turn, have a significant impact on corporate profitability, working capital, revenue growth and, ultimately, shareholder value.”

3rdwave GCM is best suited for companies with international asset or non-asset-based manufacturing programs and/or that have global sourcing and distribution activities. All of Blinco Systems’ 3rdwave Global Commerce Management vertical-specific solutions optimize a client’s existing business processes to deliver measurable and guaranteed customer ROI and value.

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For more information, Contact:

Julia Hidy
Director of Communications
Blinco Systems Inc. (416) 510-8800 Ext. 221
jhidy@blinco.com
www.blinco.com

WHITE PAPER, sponsored by Blinco Systems Inc., Global Commerce Management - The Executive Business Case for Operational Excellence, authors Gene Tyndall and Dan Gilmore.

BACKGROUNDERS

BLINCO SYSTEMS INC. is the developer of 3rdwave® Global Commerce Management and horizontal Supply Chain Management solutions. 3rdwave’s applications globally automate product, order life-cycle, and sales processes for leaders in the automotive, consumer goods distribution (hard goods and soft goods), food, metals trading, retail, apparel and break bulk areas, among others. Blinco has been nominated to Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies,’ Consumer Goods Technology’s, Food Logistics’, and Inbound Logistics’ Top 100 vendors. Supply Chain Systems’ Magazine and AMR Research voted 3rdwave's client, Honda Trading America, as North America’s leading “Supply Chain Innovator” in 2000. International headquarters are in Toronto, Canada; U.S. offices are in New York, NY. To learn more, visit the company’s website at www.blinco.com.

For an additional white paper available on the topic of global commerce management, click on:
Global Commerce Management: People, Process and Enablers