On-demand supply chain solutions

Staff -- Industrial Distribution, 8/1/2005

Mitrix, Inc., a subsidiary of global trading company Mitsui & Co., Inc., announced the launch of SCM Live, a revolutionary, on-demand, supply chain management solution delivered via the Internet. SCM Live offers small- to mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) the opportunity to improve the performance of their supply chains with the first-ever powerful, affordable and scalable on-demand technology designed specifically for that market.

SCM Live was developed by 20-year veterans in supply chain management, who understand the specific needs of that management for SME markets, and is engineered to manage the supply chain processes within highly varied and complex businesses. Delivered live via the Internet, SCM Live gives businesses the ability to gain a window of visibility into their supply chain, at any given moment, and execute any immediate actions from that window. Unlike traditional software designed for use by one company in a single server environment, SCM Live is designed for thousands of separate companies in a single instance of the application.

"SCM Live is designed to bring the same depth of functionality that large enterprises enjoy from their expensive and complex supply chain technology to the small and mid-sized enterprise market," says Edward Lewis, president and CEO of Mitrix. "The current processes that SMEs use to run their supply chains, such as fax, e-mail and Excel spreadsheets, are simply not scalable, leaving them unable to respond to competitive pressures. Now SMEs and divisions within larger enterprises get the best of both worlds: the depth of robust supply chain technology and the efficiency of a Web-based solution."