Vendor Managed Inventory with WaerLinx

The management of inventory across your supply chain can be highly complex, but Waer have the VMI technologies that can make the whole process significantly simpler.

Given clear levels of responsibility, you can entrust your suppliers (and customers) to manage their own supply chains, providing your business with improved service levels, the elimination of product shortages and greatly reduced administrative and other non-value added costs.

WaerLinx is a web-based inventory ‘pull’ system that provides visibility across the whole supply chain. Your suppliers have real-time access to all relevant inventory and consumption data, allowing them to efficiently manage and replenish products within their supply chain.

Benefits

• Elimination of shortages and reduced obsolescence
• Improvement in delivery performance
• Implementation of Just-in-Time philosophies
• Development of true partnership culture with suppliers and customers
• Reduced risk, lower inventories, increased profitability
• Full electronic trading, summarised monthly billing

With the help of Waer’s VMI solution, your supply chain becomes fully automated and operationally efficient. Consumption is captured by barcode or RFID technology, triggering automatic replenishment by your contracted supplier. Purchase orders become a thing of the past, with up to 90% of all transactions taking place without human intervention. These paperless processes go some way towards meeting the CSR policies of today’s progressive businesses.

Waer’s technical team can also offer seamless integration into your existing ERP platforms such as SAP, Baan and Oracle. Our application is accessible by any web-enabled device such as a smartphone or iPad.