Supply Chain Automation

Information Technology has been a key enabler in improving supply chain efficiency. The more integrated and automated the individual components of a supply chain solution are the more efficient the process becomes.

Major advancements in recent years have been the implementation of Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Supply Chain Management Systems (SCM), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Global Data Synchronization (GDS) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). All of which are underpinned by the world’s most institutionalized global standard – the barcode. This simple, yet effective standard is now the foundation of the supply chain process which allows items to be uniquely catalogued so they can be identified and tracked through the value chain.

LANSA’s customers have been using LANSA to integrate their disparate systems to streamline supply chain processes, eliminate errors and comply with global standards, for almost two decades.

LANSA also has a portfolio of industry vertical offerings that allows rapid implementation of Application-to-Application (A2A) messages or transactions between you and your trading partners. These solutions are either packaged as ready-to-run templates or frameworks addressing Business-to-Business (B2B) initiatives such as supply-side and demand-side automation, AS2, GDSN and EDI compliance.

Customers who have implemented supply chain automation solutions using LANSA

High Liner Foods Inc, headquartered in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, is one of North America's largest processors and marketers of prepared, value-added frozen seafood and pastas. High Liner markets its products under the High Liner, Fisher Boy and Gina Italian Village brands. A LANSA customer since 1989, High Liner uses LANSA for its iSeries, Web, Windows, 1SYNC (UCCnet) and EDI-INT extensions to JD Edwards World. Using in-house skills High Liner was able to rapidly implement EDI AS2 and 1SYNC.
Read the High Liner Foods Case study

Grupo Porteo is a top logistics provider in Mexico. With the help of LANSA business partner eSipo Technology, Grupo Porteo has implemented eSipo®, a LANSA-based Web solution that allows end-to-end tracking of each event in the delivery process between Porteo's manufacturing customers, such as 3M, Bayer, Johnson & Johnson, L'Oréal, Nabisco, Philips, Sony and retailers that include Wal*Mart, Sanborne and many others. The solution has helped to win new business and generates a climate of trust, because Grupo Porteo has made themselves 100 percent accountable and transparent.
Read the Grupo Porteo Case Study

The Alpura Group is one of the top Mexican dairy food producers with around 160 dairy farms producing more than 2 million liters of milk per day for two processing plants. Hundreds of supermarkets in Mexico carry Alpura's wide variety of dairy products. Alpura has implemented a LANSA-based Web solution that consolidates order, distribution and billing information between Alpura and its distributors. The solution helped Alpura to increase its business volume by 50% without an increase in administrative staff.
Read the Alpura Case Study

LANSA solutions for the supply chain automation

Visual LANSA is the only Integrated Development Environment (IDE) you will ever need. You can easily add functionality to your existing core applications or build new innovative applications. Visual LANSA is a development tool tightly focused on just one thing – rapidly creating high quality commercial applications. But it is not simply a more productive IDE, Visual LANSA’s platform independent Object Repository and high-level business-focused language lets you develop 5250, Web and Windows rich client programs – from a single code base.

LANSA Integrator takes the complexity out of implementing Web services for a LANSA or traditional 3GL developer and comes with a range of services that handle common integration tasks such as processing XML, transporting data over common protocols such as FTP, HTTP or by e-mail and for creating and reading common file types such as PDF, ZIP, CSV and Excel workbooks.

LANSA Data Sync Direct is a scalable, easy-to implement solution that provides all the required GDSN compliant messaging for supply and demand side transactions and functionality. Manage your GTIN activity behind your firewall with workflow and a browser interface. Update product data within your organization as well as with trading partners.

LANSA Composer is a design and execution platform for integrating business activities involving transport and transformation of data and custom business processing. It satisfies the four key requirements of a business process integration solution:

Transport – moving data between source and target.
Transformation – mapping data between many different formats.
Process Orchestration – sequential and conditional execution of process flow.
Administration – auditing, error-handling, logging, security and system operations.

A simple interface lets you wrap business logic as Activities and combine them with industry standard transformation and transport services in a single business process.

LANSA EDI Direct automatically translates EDI documents to and from your application, hiding the complexities of deciphering and assembling transaction sets, regardless of how you connect with your trading partners. LANSA Data Secure Direct takes the uncertainty out of complying with retailers requests for EDI over the Internet (EDI-INT) Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) compliance with easy browser-based administration.

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LANSA Data Sync Direct allows us to communicate accurate, synchronized item level information quickly and cost effectively with our trading partners. We can go quicker to market with new products.

Diane Muller, Information Systems Manager at Crowley Foods

LANSA's Web and M2M technologies were easy to develop and easy to integrate with JD Edwards, allowing us to look after both systems with our own staff. The liquor chains use POS Systems that automatically re-order when inventory levels drop below a certain point. Using LANSA we are now able to accept these electronic orders directly from our customers' POS system into our JD Edwards order fulfilment system. Integration with JD Edwards was easy as we could invoke existing logic and re-use existing data.

Mike Benson, IT Manager of Brewers' Distributor Ltd

The system gives both growers and customers quicker access to better information. Using the forecasting system, we can advise our members how to spread the seeding and harvesting of produce over different weeks, or even to change to a different crop to avoid oversupply. Balancing the delivery of produce helps us to guarantee the best possible price for our members.

Per Flor, IT manager at GASA Odense

With LANSA, we were the first in Mexico to offer detailed online information across the whole operation, from the initial distribution request of the manufacturer to evidence of timely delivery to the retailer. The solution has generated a climate of trust, because we have made ourselves 100 percent accountable and transparent. Customers can view all details including the date and exact time each task is performed.

Paul Sarrapy, CEO at Grupo Porteo