Use LANSA for your Supplier Portal

Extend your existing ERP System to your suppliers to increase visibility, enhance collaboration and improve materials management

As competition and customers continue to force improvement within the supply chain, optimization of business relationships will help determine who ultimately wins within individual markets. Leveraging technology is critical to the performance and ultimate success of businesses in today’s world. Technologies must be able to adapt to the rapid changes affecting the way companies do business and help effectively manage resources and cost. Solutions must be implemented in a manner that offers organizations the most efficient way to interact with customers and trading partners to effect profitability and long-term relationships. LANSA can help you achieve these goals.

LANSA can provide a secure, customizable Web interface into your ERP for your suppliers.

LANSA can provide a secure, customizable Web interface into your ERP for your suppliers. Some of the features our customers have required:

Extend your existing ERP system to suppliers without duplication of business rules, pricing, or data

LANSA has both expertise and a suite of Business-to-Business (B2B) components built upon LANSA's powerful, award-winning productivity tools which allows us to deliver on your unique requirements while blending in industry standard components where applicable. The framework approach rapidly generates IBM i (System i, iSeries, AS/400) and Windows applications leveraging your existing ERP applications. External users integrate with existing business logic such as purchase orders, pricing and inventory allocation with real-time data access to provide award-winning self service to your business partners.

Easily configure your supplier interface

LANSA provides an easy, rapid and configurable solution to help you extend your core ERP applications natively on IBM i (System i, iSeries, AS/400) or on Windows. LANSA Supplier Edition is a component-based solution that allows you to choose the specific functionality you want to deploy within your supply chain and turn on additional functionality in the future. These components provide a core set of standard business rules and definitions that are common across supplier portals and enables functionality specifically designed to meet the requirements of your supply chain.

Inherit best-of-breed design approaches

The supply chain functions required leverage LANSA’s experience in building thousands of eBusiness sites for customers worldwide. LANSA lets you inherit these best-of-breed design approaches from some of the leading business-oriented Web sites and consultants with industry experience. Learning to design applications to best address your trading partners Web expectations is a challenge that many companies face and LANSA Supplier Edition can help you exceed their expectations.

How does it work?

Whether you’re running your ERP without modifications or it has been heavily customized, LANSA allows easy integration with current databases and extends your existing applications with B2B functionality using a mix of pre-built components and custom tailored features.

Real-world experience

LANSA has extensive experience working with a diverse group of users across virtually all vertical markets.

Typical challenges LANSA has helped solve include:

• Managing purchase orders with rules-based approvals and latency
• Vendor-managed inventory with inventory planning rules
• Blanket orders with adjustments for changes in demand
• Third-party equipment monitoring with maintenance scheduling
• Automated shipping label generation for drop shipping
• Intelligent customized calendars integrating rules and deadlines
• Managing customer specific price lists and changes
• Versioning control of engineering documents
• Dissemination of secure information to specific contacts

Some of the companies using LANSA to improve supply chain communications and processing include:

"We have been able to develop sophisticated solutions to our business problems with wide spread user recognition of our IT support services.

LANSA has been an important tool in our systems development arsenal for 14 years and is part of the reason we have been able to develop systems in a cost effective manner that fills the needs of our users, the operators of our businesses.

LANSA has made it easier for our development people to create communication flows with both internal and external users. It has helped us turn data into information."

– Kelly Nelson, Vice President Corporate Services and Chief Financial Officer at High Liner Foods
Read the High Liner Foods Case Study

"The accuracy of deliveries has improved and supermarkets now receive goods according to their purchase orders. Our capacity to fulfill orders has also increased and our lead times have improved markedly.

The most noticeable and immediate effect is our improved cash flow. The system has reduced the payment cycle to distributors from 15 to two days on average. This makes it easy for them to check the invoice and promptly approve payment. Distributors can enter their payments online, updating both their and our administration simultaneously.

We have a better view of our sales, with daily and accurate snapshots of supermarket deliveries. We didn't have information at the supermarket level before. This information is very valuable to our marketing department and allows us to run more targeted campaigns. It also puts us in a stronger negotiation position with the supermarkets."

– Victor Ortiz, Manager Information Systems at The Alpura Group
Read the Alpura Case Study

"We want to be a partner in distribution, allowing our customers to focus on their core competency and help them grow the business. We want to help our customers manage their supply chain at a variable cost. Managing the supply chain is, for many companies, the last opportunity to take margin under control. Our systems enable the required flexibility in the ever-changing retail business environment."

– Jeffrey M. Wolpov, CEO at Distribution Solutions Inc. (DSI) now Port Logistics
Read the Port Logistics Case Study

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