In order to succeed in todays electronics industry, companies must compete to provide customers with world-class, innovative products and services at low cost. The model the industry has adopted to meet this challenge is specialization. Brand owners select partners for design, technology, manufacturing, logistics, service and channel management. Multiple participants now share responsibility for critical processes that cannot adequately be managed at arms length. Competitive advantage is created or lost in this distributed value chain. RiverOne INTERACTIVE provides the means to synchronize operations across multiple tiers of the supply chain to reduce cost, reduce risk, and enhance compliance. Just as an ERP system integrates departments and processes within an enterprise, RiverOnes multi-enterprise control system integrates the companies and business processes that constitute the supply chain. But while the enterprise seeks uniformity and standardization, the supply chain is diverse and dynamic.
At the heart of our control system is the program concept. A program includes the trading partners that build and deliver a particular product, along with the commitments they establish, the roles they play, the processes and workflow they adopt, and the metrics by which they measure their success. No two supply chains are identical, and our patent-pending technology permits the rapid definition and deployment of unlimited, unique programs. As you progressively deploy more programs, supporting more products and including more trading partners, they become the fabric of your multi-enterprise control system and a new lever for competitive success. |