NTE: Solutions

NTE On-Demand Supply Chain solutions

Features

Order Management
Warehouse Management
Transportation Management
Tariff Management
Shipment Optimization
Freight Bill Audit and Pay
Full Value Added Network Capabilities (EDI, XML, AS2, etc.)
High Availability
Custom Extensions for your business rules
Custom application appearance
Custom user roles and menu designs
Custom and standard reports

Values

On-demand solutions
Select only the features you need
Acts as an extension of or replacement for existing supply chain investments
Project timelines are shorter because no installation is required
Proven support for simple and complex configurations, from Fortune 100 companies to small shippers and 3PL’s
High level summaries
Drill into detailed tracking
Single role-driven solution
Labor Efficient
Limited demand upon customer IT resources
Unlimited number of users
Unlimited number of trading partners
NTE manages outside integrations
Full supply chain solution
On-line access for all supply chain users and partners
No additional hardware or software required
Central Document Imaging Repository

Combining business process with proven technology to create a managed, configurable, on-demand supply chain solution.

The NTE On-Demand solution (NTE Suite) provides full end-to-end management of your supply chain information. From order infancy to shipment delivery and financial settlement, NTE Suite provides visibility, accuracy and adaptability for you and your trading partners. NTE Suite is built on the NTE Platform, which utilizes best-of-breed technology to deliver an on-demand supply chain solution providing security, stability, scalability and connectivity, without investing in additional hardware or software.

Components
NTE Suite is comprised of three modular components deployed on the NTE Platform: Order Management, Warehouse Management and Transportation Management. Each component can be utilized independently to manage a single segment of your supply chain, or they can be used together to provide a full end-to-end supply chain solution. You decide how to configure the components to meet the needs of your supply chain.
	Order Management - NTE Order Management is focused on the fulfillment of customer, requisition and purchase orders. Provides a central hub for you and your partners to manage your supply chain orders. Seamless integration with supplier and customer order entry systems, resulting in freight orders ready for transportation management.
	Warehouse Management - The NTE Warehouse Management system provides flexible location management and storage definition capabilities. This allows precise control of inventory across multiple customers and warehouses. Integration with warehouse storage systems allows seamless automation of inventory movement. Integration with external third party systems provides a virtual warehouse view of a customer’s inventory.
	Transportation Management - The NTE Transportation Management system provides optimization and automated routing guide execution. On-line, real time optimization reduces transportation costs. Automation of routing guide procedures ensures shipping compliance with your business rules. Carriers can accept/reject on-line or by electronic integration. Shipment tracking and financial settlement complete the transportation management process.

Principles
The NTE Suite development has been driven by the guiding principles of visibility, accuracy and adaptability. By always keeping these guiding principles in mind NTE has been able to provide robust on-demand solutions that meet the need of small, medium and large companies.
	Visibility - Corporate direction requires knowledge, which is based upon information. NTE Suite provides three forms of data never before gathered together within the same tool with so little impact on existing systems. First, NTE Suite is a repository of your data. Since everything within your supply chain can flow through NTE, we provide a consolidated location for corporate supply chain data collected from disparate systems. Second, NTE provides visibility into the detailed history of changes to this data while it exists in the NTE Suite. Any change made to this data is tagged with pertinent information such as the user, application, date and time of the change, along with snapshots of the record before and after the change. Third, NTE Suite is an event driven system and thus contains data about your supply chain that is created by the system itself. Information showing how your partners interact with your supply chain is vital knowledge you may not have captured before. For example, NTE Suite can tell you how often carriers ignore shipments in specific lanes or how quickly carriers take shipments in other lanes, giving you information about their habits and preferences.
	Accuracy - Computer systems may never think independently but they can systematically execute a set of rules based on standard input with great accuracy. NTE Suite modules are designed with the ability to configure and customize a set of rules that identify the normal behavior of your supply chain. Since the NTE module handles these normal situations automatically and accurately, it is only the exceptional cases that require human intervention. For example, once a carrier bid is defined and loaded into the NTE Suite, you can be sure that the system will accurately carry out the rules of your bid and provide fair and equitable opportunities to all your carriers based on your definitions. You can always override a rule and handle carrier executions manually – but the system will identify this event as an exception and reports will handle this differently than the normal execution of loads.
	Adaptability - No two customers are alike, yet no customer wants to reinvent the wheel. NTE Suite allows its customers to look vastly different, yet there are no costly customizations. The main principle behind the object oriented designs of the NTE system are the ability to configure each and every module with a set of rules and attributes that allow the customer to pick and choose which areas of the system they want and how those areas will be used. The web skin of the NTE Suite product will have your colors, logos, menu items, vendors, customers, partners and rules. You own this configuration and it is your website. As new features become available for the use of one customer, all customers are given the opportunity to use this new feature without costly upgrades and rollouts. Since NTE wrote 95% of the system and has invested millions of dollars into its design and development, we can customize it without the need to contract partner companies to do the work and thus we keep our customers’ costs down.