Portals
The use of website portals can be adopted to provide supply chain members with access to information and applications to support purchase order management, demand forecasting, shipping notices and barcode label generation. This can improve collaboration between supply chain members and make it easier to manage essential logistics information.
Electronic Data Interchange
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) facilitates the computer to computer exchange of data and business to business communication between supply chain partners to enable essential business transactions with minimal human interaction.
Figure 4 shows the typical business transactions that can be managed by EDI:
Figure 4: EDI Transactions