SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

The path to any meaningful collaborative commerce must start with appropriate data and a synchronization foundation. This includes common data standards, a centralized and consolidated single view of the data within the enterprise, and data synchronization with a product registry such as GS1. Cactus Supply Chain Management (SCM) solutions address these fundamental processes to ensure that that product information is accessible by all trading partners in the supply chain.

Once product data sources have been identified and integrated with Cactus ECI solutions, the Cactus SCM offering includes a core Product Information Management (PIM) solution which provides a single, consolidated view of all product data from all sources. The Global Data Synchronization (GDS) solution takes standardized product data and makes it available to trading partners by synchronizing it with data pools such as Agentrics (formerly the World Wide Retail Exchange or WWRE) and 1SYNC (formerly UCCnet™ and Transora.)

As a member of EPCglobal and several other industry standards working committees, Cactus Commerce has been involved with adapting RFID technologies to enhance supply chain visibility. Simply stated, the RFID solution is about WHERE the goods which have been synchronized are in the supply chain and where they have been.

The Cactus Commerce SCM solutions make it possible for organizations to embrace industry-driven changes and transition to next generation of collaborative e-commerce – leveraging PIM, GDS and RFID to increase the operational efficiency of the supply chain.

For large Retailers and Consumer Goods manufacturers, inaccurate product data results in billions of dollars of lost sales every year. Cactus Commerce can solve the problem by introducing Cactus GDS Accelerator for BizTalk Server. It offers Global Data Synchronization via a 1SYNC (formerly UCCnet™ and Transora.) and Agentrics (formerly the World Wide Retail Exchange or WWRE) by leveraging the robust integration capabilities of BizTalk Server and overlaying industry and datapool-specific features and functionality. While the PIM works in conjunction with Cactus ECI solutions to provide a single view of all product information within the enterprise.

Cactus RFID solutions have been developed using the Microsoft RFID framework and mange the RFID data by synchronizing it with product and order data. It is equally important to know the contents of a shipment as to know it’s location in the supply chain. Cactus is actively working with large North American Retailers and Consumer Goods Manufacturers to fulfill GDS and RFID industry compliancy mandates. Find out how Cactus can help you bring the benefits of RFID to your business.

As Microsoft Gold Certified ISV/Software Solutions Partner, Cactus Commerce offers out-of-the-box components within Microsoft’s easy-to-use process integration platform. It is also a member of the EPCglobal Software Action Group that oversees the software applications portion of the RFID market.