“The SCD hub can provide additional management reporting of KPI’s across all business partners.”

Services

Data Checks & Alerts

As well as services related to messaging and integration the SCD hub can be set up to automatically perform additional functions on the data to help you manage and control your supply chain:

Electronic receipts and alerts

The SCD hub provides partners with the ability to see message receipts giving the exact time and date the message was received. This can be extended to provide alerts (for instance to a transport manager) if messages have not been received by a certain time or have been rejected after data integrity checking.

Data Integrity Checks

The SCD hub can perform a number of data integrity checks before a message is passed on to the recipient. These include, in ascending order of complexity:

• Checking that all mandatory fields are completed.
• Checking that the format of a field is correct for the recipient.
• Checking the content of a field. This can include cross referencing the contents with another data file that has been provided to the EDI hub, e.g. product codes are valid.
• Checking consistency between messages, e.g. that a POD document quotes a valid load number from a message previously exchanged by that supplier.

Web Interface

The SCD hub’s web interface will allow suppliers and customers to access all business documents exchanged through the hub in a clear, humanly readable format.

KPI Reports

All data passed between you and your partners will be held on the SCD hub’s database. It can then be used for KPI reporting across all your logistics partners or just for one relationship.