Technology: an ally in times of crisis

The deepening economic crisis in the country has led Brazilian companies to take measures to ensure the expected margins or at least mitigate losses. These initiatives often spend by reviewing costs and internal procurement and logistics processes. A great ally are the technological solutions in supply chain management, which today offer a low cost, potential gains for companies with different profiles.

Recent advances in hosting and in architectural technology solutions, and the increasing acceptance of undertakings to cloud solutions, has encouraged the emergence of new players and generated new opportunities to market B2B platforms. Tools that support and automate supplier management processes, negotiation, acquisition (req-to-order) and logistics monitoring, generate benefits throughout the chain.

Today, even with ERPs, many companies still rely on manual processes in communication with the external environment. The automation of the search, approval, negotiation and transaction with suppliers increases agility, generates real-time visibility of all processes, and also improves compliance, mitigating risks. Performance indicators of these solutions indicate potential savings in operating costs of the request to the request for up to 50%, and earnings total term of this process, improved overall handling fees and reduced spot purchases, ie without a contract.

Already in logistics, transport expenses (or cost freight) can represent up to 50% of the costs of the proceedings of the supply chain. Companies using dynamic, collaborative optimization models tend to capture greater benefits and positioning ahead of its competitors. The technological solutions that offer real-time monitoring of the logistics operation and status visibility and performance of applications, receipt, transportation and fleet, generate increased operating efficiencies, improved level of service and reducing transportation costs, storage, safe and stays.

On the one hand the country’s crisis scenario creates difficulties in general for companies in the supply chain, the combination of reducing waste, increasing efficiency and economy generates direct impact on the bottom line of companies and prepares them to be even more competitive at a time of renewed economic growth.

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