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Logility i-Community

Source: Logility, Inc., Transportation Group
One of the keys to competitive advantage is finding more resourceful ways to work with your customers and suppliers.
Logility, Inc., Transportation Groupkeys to competitive advantage is finding more resourceful ways to work with your customers and suppliers. Enter the Logility i-Community. A Logility-hosted, web-based collaborative network of trading partners, the i-Community offers a more effective means of connecting with your trading partners.

Using Logility's award-winning Voyager XPS, Voyager XES, and other CPFR-compliant applications, the i-Community becomes your central port of entry for Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) with your key partners.

Using the Internet for CPFR, you and your trading partners are synchronized 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In this real-time environment, the i-Community provides exception-based management of information with your trading partners. As an i-Community member, you can collaborate on sales forecasts and replenishment plans. You can plan for special events or unexpected peaks in demand. Logility can even host your i-Community on a Web server accessible only by authorized trading partner users. And by leveraging CPFR business processes, you can dramatically reduce cycle time, forecast errors and inventory while increasing your fill rate - and your revenues.

The i-Community utilizes leading technologies to offer the most sophisticated collaborative network. Logility supplies the necessary infrastructure to operate the servers and "pipelines" between you, your partners providing a truly collaborative community itself.

Bottom line: by joining the i-Community, you'll have everything you need to collaborate more effectively with your trading partners than ever before. Through your Internet connection, you can inquire about the information required to support CPFR; send the data every day, week or month; receive alerts and e-mails regarding exceptions; and locate and analyze the information needed to make better business decisions. And you can do all this without all the information systems overhead.
Maximize your use of the Logility i-Community with:

Universal Exception Builder - The most flexible exception and alert notification model available. You can configure enterprise or value chain alerts across disparate data sources and be notified of business of exceptions via e-mail, phone or pager, keeping your team focused on critical business issues.

Value Chain Workflow - To support the most scalable requirements, Workflow is embedded within Voyager XPS and Voyager XES to enable a flexible and configurable process model used to define who and how collaboration is effected between trading partners.

Control Tower - The Control Tower presents to power users, managers and trading partners critical information pertaining to subscribed Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) and summaries of exception messages. Drill-down takes the users to the appropriate decision-making information level to provide insight into current business conditions.

Real-time Synchronization - Enables real-time synchronizing of information across the entire value chain.

Open Connectivity - Quickly integrate and collaborate with your trading partners, including retailers, distributors, wholesalers, manufacturers and raw material suppliers.

Voyager Commerce Corridor - Provides real-time event driven and perpetual integration of data across enterprise boundaries using XML. The Corridor maps disparate data including and supporting EDI and other standards based formats by dynamically creating "pipelines" between corporate applications and trading partners. Activation of the "pipes" can be initiated by users, events and schedules.

Security Options - Authentication ensures secure access. Content integrity guarantees that messages have not been altered by another party since they were sent. Non-repudiation establishes the source of a message. Ease of use ensures that the security systems can be consistently implemented for a wide variety of applications without unduly restricting the ability of individuals or organizations.

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