Accurately Access all Supply Chain Information—regardless of source.

Today’s supply-side communications occur within a variety of mediums: telephone, paper, fax, email, and EDI. In order to stay ahead of supply-side order management issues, your company pays a premium in labor cost and unnecessary delays. At AcceLIM, we believe there is a unique opportunity to both reduce cost and increase competitiveness.

The AcceLIM Solution

• Increase productivity by bringing ALL of the information associated with supplier communications to the buyer’s desktop, regardless of whether the original was paper, fax, email or EDI.

• Find virtually all exceptions occurring in supply-side transactions, alerting the necessary people of these issues in real-time.

• Coexist with existing technology and communicating with your other systems via XML to further reduce integration costs.

• ‘Pay as you Save’ model—you pay for the services you use as you need them.

• Savings up to 30-40% on your current order management costs.

Challenges of Today’s Supply Chain

Buyers should be sourcing the right products and challenging your suppliers for the greatest value, not chasing down issues, exceptions and discrepancies. While a great number of business enterprise systems are available and deployed, existing computer technology doesn’t always succeed in bringing all the necessary information to the buyer’s desktop.

Today’s systems focus on the traditional 3-point match (Order, Received, Billed). However, in order to keep your just-in-time inventory synchronized with your suppliers’ production schedules, you need many more points of communication. These additional points can occur anywhere in the process; early warnings on order confirmations and shipment notifications, shifts in production schedules, or multiple points of receipt. Given these considerations, the 3-point match seems grossly incomplete – turning instead into a 5 or 7-point match.

Complicating things further is the fact that huge diversity in the sophistication level of suppliers and in the mediums used for communication exists within most supply chains. EDI (despite its limitations) has come a long way in connecting sophisticated suppliers, but smaller supplier communications may still be paper-based. In order to bridge this gap, human labor is often the only option.

Inside the AcceLIM Solution

AcceLIM serves as a thin layer between your suppliers and your purchasing and accounting people and their existing computer systems. AcceLIM uses your purchase order as the master, identifying and matching all incoming information with your original order, regardless of source. Data is extracted from paper-based sources of information such as packing slips, bills of lading and invoices, as well as electronic formats such as email, XML and EDI. All the data is converted into native business objects. If an order has no exceptions, it is quickly routed through the system and processed at a very low cost. When an exception or discrepancy does occur, key people are alerted and all of the information is presented via web portal. AcceLIM is able to find virtually all exceptions in real-time, providing you timely, complete and accurate exception handling.

Frees your buyers to buy
The challenge of finding alternative sources for partial or backordered items, detecting mismatched quantities on the loading dock and finding every billing discrepancy is enough to keep a CFO up at night.

AcceLIM puts the information and supporting documents at your buyers’ virtual fingertips. Orders that have no discrepancies flow through the system without human intervention. For orders with discrepancies, the exception along with all supporting data is presented to the buyer within an intuitive Web-based interface. Your buyers are free to buy, not chase shortages and backorders down a paper trail.

Finds all of the exceptions
There are many ways an order can go wrong. Traditional systems only allow for a few typical exceptions (received too few or too many, were billed for the wrong number or the wrong amount). AcceLIM is flexible enough to track all possible exceptions that can occur. No longer do your buyers need to go outside of the IT system whenever an order doesn’t fit within standard parameters.

Organizes your complete communications flow
Typical ERP systems use the three-point match system, matching ordered amount with received amount and invoiced amount. Reality is much more complicated. There are usually multiple receiving points and the potential for discrepancies in each. AcceLIM provides a way to store all communications pertaining to an order, so buyers can spend less time organizing and more time sourcing product.

Provides real-time access to quality information
Much of the communication that buyers need to perform their jobs is held up in data-entry and imaging departments. AcceLIM provides real-time access to information, allowing your buyers to make the best sourcing decisions. AcceLIM also eliminates the problem of corrupt and unreadable data entering your enterprise system, by perfecting all content prior to export.

Neutralizes the medium
Communications enter your organization through multiple avenues: mail, fax, email and EDI. AcceLIM transforms all communication into standard data, ready for processing.

Your smallest supplier becomes your most sophisticated
AcceLIM can also make your smallest supplier seem like your largest, by putting a uniform face on transactions regardless of source. Buyers can streamline their processes instead of using a different method for each supplier.

Stops paper before it enters your organization
AcceLIM pulls necessary data from paper and puts it, along with an image of the original, into your computer systems. The result is fewer lost or misplaced documents and information that is easily accessible to multiple people simultaneously.

Integrates into your existing systems
AcceLIM delivers the data in XML or other industry standard formats, reducing integration costs.

Why AcceLIM?

AcceLIM provides you with more efficient and effective supply side management.

AcceLIM gives you control of your most problematic transactions—partials, incomplete orders, exceptions—all of the discrepancies that occur within your supply chain. We extend beyond purchasing or ERP software—we’re not only compatible with whatever IT infrastructure you have in place, we’re complementary, giving you maximum ROI on your existing software and hardware investments.

AcceLIM utilizes a ‘pay as you save’ model. We work with you to solve your most difficult order management issues, uncover the cost of each transaction, and then deliver your savings.

Best of all, AcceLIM will help you focus more succinctly upon your core business.