Supply Chain Solutions InfoChain Express® (ICE)

Retailer And Brand Owner Advantages

The Challenges

As a retailer or brand owner, you face ever-increasing competition and performance expectations. Superior global supply chain management is critical to your success. The challenges are daunting. To be successful you must:

• Achieve 100% vendor compliance
• Automate electronic communication with a diverse supplier base
• Achieve global supply chain visibility
• Obtain floor-ready merchandise from suppliers
• Automate DC receiving
• Achieve cross-docking, direct ship, and DC bypass
• Enable global suppliers with appropriate barcode, ASN, and RFID capabilities
• Ensure accurate packing, reliable data, and compliant documentation from suppliers

The Benefits

InfoChain Express™ delivers significant benefits to retailers and brand owners in two major areas:

1. Supply Chain Efficiency
   
   ICE enables you to:
• Automate DC receiving
• Facilitate cross docking
• Eliminate manual processes and errors
• Ensure packing accuracy
• Enable direct ship / DC bypass
• Reduce need for DC pick-pack and re-labeling
• Supports the need for de-consolidation
• Shorten customs clearance and in-DC tie
• Lower consolidator fees
• Lower financial service fees
• Reduce inventory and safety stock
• Reduce stockout
• End-to-end visibility into the flow of product and payment throughout the supply chain via ICE powered by TradeCard™
2. Supply Chain Efficiency
   
   With ICE you can:
   
   • Achieve 100% vendor compliance – including large and small, international and domestic, long-term and seasonal vendors
   • Minimize chargeback’s and fine

Vendor And Factory Advantages

The Challenges

As a vendor to retailers and brand owners, you face ever-increasing competition and performance demands. Superior order fulfillment and vendor compliance performance is critical to your success. The challenges are daunting. To be successful you must:

• Provide better service levels than your competitors
• Receive electronic POs in EDI, XML, or various proprietary formats
• Reduce manual processes, errors and reworks
• Comply with each buyer’s label, tag and ticket requirements
• Produce floor-ready merchandise
• Comply with pre-pack and musical size run requirements
• Reduce packing errors and concealed shortages
• Produce error-free documentation (e.g. packing list, commercial invoice, pro forma invoice)
  in the right formats for each brand owner and retailer
• Generate accurate electronic ASNs in the right formats for both direct ship and DC shipments
• Meet the RFID requirements of retailers and brand owners

The Benefits

InfoChain Express® delivers significant benefits to vendors. ICE allow you to:

• Meet vendor compliance requirements
• Reduce charge backs and fines by retailers and brand owners
• Reduce consolidator fees
• Shorten order turnaround time and reduce working capital
• Strengthen customer relationships
• Increase order flow and revenue
• Increase pricing power
• Achieve seamless connection with your financial service providers
• Automate processing of PO, ASN, shipping documents and commercial invoice
• Acquire direct ship capacity

 

There’s more to learn about the advantages and benefits of Avery Dennison InfoChain Express. For an in-depth conversation about how ICE can specifically help you, contact your Avery Dennison sales representative.