Kewill.Trade Hub creates a private exchange for buyers and suppliers to better control supply chain, streamline shipping and save money
26 June 2001
Kewill E Commerce today introduced Kewill.Trade™ Hub, a Web-based application that brings together trading partners and transportation carriers for seamless e-commerce. While giving buyers control of their supply chain, it also automates business for major shipping carriers, including UPS, USPS, Federal Express Ground, Federal Express Air, Airborne Express, and DHL, and cuts supplier shipping and order management costs. Kewill.Trade Hub is targeted at Global 1000 manufacturers and retailers with a large supplier base. Kewill E Commerce provides shipping automation, order management and supply chain control software for more than 75,000 customers worldwide.
About Kewill.Trade Hub
With Kewill.Trade Hub, suppliers can fulfill, ship, track and confirm receipt of orders according to buyer-specific requirements. Because Kewill.Trade Hub connects to participants’ back-end systems, buyers can get information only their suppliers have, such as product availability or order backlog, to plan inventory, predict lags, generate accurate reports and expedite payments. Kewill.Trade Hub is available immediately. Buyer and supplier benefits include:
- Buyers receive advanced shipping notifications (ASNs), product price catalog updates and shipment status from their suppliers to streamline purchasing. Increased supplier enablement improves buyer visibility into the entire supply chain. Buyers purchase a license to participate, while suppliers pay a subscription fee
- Suppliers benefit from participating in the intuitive, easy-to-use system by being able to automate shipment processing, create compliant labels for shipments, report more accurately, plan manufacturing levels, streamline fulfillment processes and communications with buyers, and invoice more quickly, reducing costs overall.
Unlike other online trading exchanges, Kewill provides integration tools and services to link Kewill.Trade Hub directly into buyers, suppliers, and all major shipping carriers. Kewill integration tools eliminate manual and redundant data entry, while providing all trading partners with real time, collaborative control. Kewill.Trade Hub is unique in combining shipping and order management capabilities into one end-to-end solution.
"Kewill brings the capabilities of traditional electronic data interchange (EDI) technology to smaller suppliers without the IT burden. By providing a low cost, subscription-based Web interface to our suppliers, we and our smaller suppliers can experience the advantages of EDI, efficiencies that translate into more cost effective pricing, streamlined processing, reduced paperwork and just in time delivery of goods, at a minimal capital expense to the supplier," said Brad H. Friedman, vice president of information services at Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation.
"Kewill.Trade Hub brings together buyers, suppliers and transportation carriers in a unique environment by combining Kewill’s shipping and B2B order management expertise," said Bob Malley, president of Kewill E Commerce. "In today’s economic climate, eliminating supply chain inefficiencies and reducing costs while leveraging existing e-commerce investments are board level concerns. Kewill.Trade Hub not only addresses these concerns, but also brings unprecedented control to the supply chain process."
About Kewill Systems
Kewill Systems (LSE: KWL) has more than 28 years of experience developing business-to-business shipping automation and supply chain control software for global trading communities. More than 75,000 customers, including Federal Express, Siemens, Marks and Spencer and the United States Postal Service, use Kewill's applications to control the flow and overhead cost of their supply chains.
For more information:
Darby Johnson
Beaupre & Co. Public Relations, Inc.
(603) 559-5809
djohnson@beaupre.com
Jennifer Bentley
Kewill E Commerce
(508) 229-4400
Jennifer.Bentley@kewill.com
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