Seeburger receives Chinese honor for just-in-sequence operations
By Manufacturing Business Technology Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 1/7/2008 8:10:00 AM MST
Best Supply Chain IT Solution honors bestowed by the China Supply Chain Council went to business integration specialist Seeburger for a complex EDI system deployment at BeijingBenz-DaimlerChrysler Automotive Ltd. (BBDC), the first car factory in China to implement full just-in-sequence operations.
Seeburger linked more than 150 BBDC parts suppliers relying heavily on the vendor’s WebEDI Automotive Partner Portal for smaller companies lacking sophisticated ERP systems of their own, or sufficient volume to justify a conventional EDI link through the company’s B2B Gateway product.
“Getting supplier adoption of collaborative forecasting and order management and integrated delivery is a big challenge because so few are capable of electronic sharing of forecasts and confirmation of orders,” says James Hatcher, Seeburger managing director for Asia Pacific. “Ninety percent are using manual processes: phone and fax.”
The solution included cutting-edge, secure AS2, encrypted Web network technology that large trading communities in the U.S. and Europe are just now beginning to evaluate. “Here’s an automotive OEM in China that is leapfrogging other data technology with the most modern solution available," says Hatcher.
