Retail EDI

“If products are coming into my Supply Chain, they are coming in scanned and verified!”

Make no doubt about it, the hay is in the barn and it is time to choose sides. The effect of predictive ASN creation is injuring our Retail Supply Chain. The practice of predicting what will go in a carton; the practice of cloning and data entering, and matching labels to pack slips, is pissing consumers off.  Whether on-line, or brick and mortar, the bottom line effect of supply chain inaccuracies is draining our profit. Now is the time to use the significant physical activities of the supply chain as the basis for all electronic data interchange.

No other EDI solution addresses EDI like Paramount Workflow Suite. Our Single minded intention to eliminate errors in receiving and shipping products by means of barcode scanning, distinguishes Paramount as the only sensible choice for creating ASN data and partner-specific documents and data.  Continuous development for more than 20 years, Sunflare Technologies has continued to enhance and support our most sensible and practical creation, Paramount Workflow Suite.  Quite simply, PWS applies intense scrutiny to workflow events that trigger sub-second conditional services. Customized services allow users to integrate, serialize, label, notify, update, and report to any system capable of receiving machine readable data.  Yes, if the incorrect item is scanned against an order, Paramount can shout “Incorrect Item” in any recordable language… And yes, if you are expecting to receive product “A” and you receive product “B” it can generate an email and return label before it even enters your warehouse… Of course, if you want carton content labels or specific UPC labels printed for a specific customer (to a specific printer) you can do that too. But Paramount’s DNA is founded in the principles and practices of Retail EDI. Careful attention is given to the hierarchical nature of the ASN data structures, and the solution has proven to be effective for the largest and most demanding of retail merchants. So when it comes to providing an end-to-end EDI solution, or just integrating to an existing EDI or ERP solution, Paramount is worth the consideration.

Paramount Workflow Suite is THE definitive method for Advance Ship Notice creation. Paramount provides 100% verified ASN and Invoice data for your existing EDI applications, or, if required, Paramount can transmit ASN’s directly from the shipping dock floor.  Small Parcel Manifest systems as well as Carrier Systems (UPS and FedEx) are supported through warehouse-resident integration or through EDI, with the guarantee of little to no operator intervention.

Paramount Workflow Suite’s secret sauce is its flexibility in building workflow models. Workflow models are built according to your trading partner’s business policies and to the business policies of your own organization. Workflow models can enforce Retailer-specific policies, Independent Trade Policies, Drop Ship Policies, Factory Policies, Direct To Consumer, Returns, and Receiving Policies, Quality Control and so on... 

The creation of Workflow Models in Paramount is limitless. The guiding principle is that physical activities must be captured electronically (upon the scan of a barcode or other method of electronic ID) and all activities must be verified, by Paramount, to insure flawless accuracy.

From a single web-merchant who wants to distribute purchase orders to factories and Sales Orders to his warehouse(s)…  To the large Logistics provider who wants to provide “simply seamless” custom services for his shippers multiple trading relationships.  Paramount Workflow Suite provides the repeatable and sustainable models to make your supply chain activities glow.

Sunflare Technologies is the developer of the Paramount Workflow Suite, formerly known as the Simple EDI Paramount system. Paramount was born in 1989, developmentally influenced, and subsequently endorsed by Kmart Fashions,  to insure fulfillment accuracy from their vendors participating in EDI, ASN, Quick Response, JIT, and other retailer- specific  supply chain programs. The goal of the Retailer was, and still is, to exploit the technologies of point-of-sale scanning, flow-through/cross-dock logistics and sophisticated merchandising and replenishment systems.  Paramount Workflow Suite was developed as the tool to provide the right product at the right place and at the right time for the ultimate consumer.  The intended result was reduced inventory throughout the supply chain, reduction of out-of-stocks, markdowns, and the elimination of friction in terms of concealed shortages, blind substitutions, incorrect routing, and manual entry. The early adopters of supply chain technologies such as Wal-mart, Target, Sears, and JCPenney, depended on the cooperation of their EDI Trading Partners to provide the accuracy, timeliness, and visibility into their manufacturing and work flow processes. Flawless accuracy in the data provided by the manufacturing community was to be the cornerstone to all retail systems. Yesterday, as today the control of [in-store] inventories and the speed from point-of-sale to point- of- pack is dependent on agreed upon Item Identification, Order Verification, and machine readable Integration between buyer and seller.  Profitable supply chains were being formed based on the accuracy, visibility, and the sharing of timely and flawless data between trading partners. The obstacles were many but never as evident as in the years of ASN deployment from suppler to retailer. Short sighted compliance solutions, provided by self-serving third-party providers, allowed critical ASN to be data entered, predicted, and conbobulated, with disregard to data accuracy and the subsequent effect bad data being fed to partners’ most sophisticated systems. The resulting effect was near-devastation.

Paramount Workflow Suite and its adopters always stood for the definitive method for Data (ASN) creation and fulfillment. Many Paramount users, once 100% accuracy was proven, received financial relief from the “automatic” deductions for concealed shortages and assumed packing errors.  However, most users realize the savings through, chargeback avoidance, and the reduction of data entry.  The reduction in time spent “primping orders” for picking and packing allow for substantial savings for all Paramount adopters.  Paramount will never give in to predicting what should be shipped in a container and hope it is fulfilled correctly. Paramount Workflow Suite provides companies the ability to properly execute the fundamentals of the supply chain. Supply Chain accuracy starts with Paramount Workflow Suite.

Sunflare Technologies offers Paramount Workflow Suite to companies of all sizes. PWS supports a wide range of customer preferences in terms of printers, scanners, and devices. From a single mobile device to a single workstation supporting 4 users….. to versions that supports up to 40+ concurrent users. Each Paramount workstation supports up to NINE local or network printers.  Server based EDI transformation, Data manipulation and eCommerce-specific applications complement Paramount Workflow Suite.

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