Retail Sector

Entity knows how to shrink your supply chain

In the retail sector, Entity has spent over a decade providing solutions that are focused on optimisation of the supply chain. In the early 90s the major supermarkets and food manufacturers were driving the implementation of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) in an effort to remove costly errors, reduce stock holding, and increase their responsiveness to fluctuations in demand. Nothing has changed, those same business drivers continue to be the focus, today, with the same objectives to remove time and cost from the supply chain, but even more so these days with the increased competition. However, whilst EDI continues to provide a reliable conduit between businesses and across the overall supply chain, with the advent of the Internet, other options exist for more interactive EDI (EDIINT AS2), collaborative workflow, electronic markets/portals, etc..

Entity has a wealth of practical experience to be able to solve your supply chain communication needs. For EDI, Entity can provide the products and services to enable a supplier to communicate with their customers. For a customer, Entity can plan and manage the full EDI implementation across the complete supplier base.

As an IBM Business Partner for Information Exchange (IBM’s EDI Service), Entity is able to provide its customers with a full and complete service/solution, and support all the elements of it thereafter – a true one stop shop! For those wishing to exploit the Internet, then Entity can assist with EDIINT based solutions, or web site development to find that extra edge that is needed in business today.

Clients

Clients include Safeway, Tesco, General Mills and many others.

The Future is Change

Over the last ten years the speed of change in the global economy has accelerated dramatically, breaking down the old distinctions between the First World, Second World and Third World. New terms have been invented to meet the creation of a ‘one-world market’, and ‘Developing Countries’ (previously seen as a source of raw material) and now being thought of as ‘emerging markets’ (regarded in terms of production and consumption).

Supermarkets and manufacturers are driving forward these changes, relentlessly, and the consolidation and globalisation race is well and truly in progress [with some soothsayers predicting that there will only be five supermarket giants by the year 2010!].

Whether you are at the forefront of this revolution, or merely "getting EDI sorted out", Entity can provide the advice and guidance, the solutions, and the full back up support to improve your business communication and optimise your supply chain.