UPS introduces cloud technology to help customers supervision cargo shipping business

Recently, UPS's introduction of a cloud technology based on the platform, so that customers more effectively supervise and manage its cargo and shipping business.
UPS said, UPS Order Watch system allows customers to cooperate more effectively with international suppliers, better management of the inbound supply chain, so as to enhance the company's existing global maritime and air transport agency product Supplier Management. The new product can improve the order of overseas suppliers accuracy and timeliness; strengthen supplier management, exception management process automation, real-time shipping status and detailed in-transit inventory visibility management; improve the internal business process; promote the purchase order ( PO ) integration and optimization of transportation planning. At present, the system of the existing customers, new customers can use in early 2013.
UPS vice president of supplier management, the company hopes to strengthen cooperation in supply chain through the application of cloud technology, improve operation efficiency. By extension, based on supply chain management technology of cloud computing, companies can not only simplify the management of suppliers, but also through a single platform management of all incoming goods transportation, consolidate the sea freight business, improve container utilization rate, reduce cost.
Supplier ordering system can make abnormal warning, ensure supplier compliance with customer requirements, and can provide an online system, promote the suppliers and customers to purchase orders for effective communication. Improved supplier management service will eliminate email communication time, without the need for additional records of customer retention.
To strengthen the monitoring of supplier order details and freight window can further improve customer management level, to advance or delay of shipment and the error order intervention. Once the order is submitted, system can create from order to delivery of goods, to strengthen the control of goods, to provide a virtual existing inventory for customers, to view the newly orders and goods.
The system can also improve the visibility of the inbound supply chain, will connect the whole value chain from the ocean carrier to the freight company to host network. This exchange, with the existing electronic data interchange file methods instead.