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end2end VISIBILITY 3.0 TEMPLATE EASES MONITORING CHALLENGES

Sockeye Solutions Corp, a leading developer of adaptive supply chain collaboration applications, introduced its end2end Visibility Template 3.0. The new template allows enterprises to synchronize and monitor the performance of distributed business partners across the entire inbound and outbound supply networks, leading to immediate customer value from the template.

"Enterprises are moving to a more decentralized business model where outsourcing plays an ever-increasing role in manufacturing," said Brian Nickerson, president and CEO of Sockeye Solutions. "These relationships span from new product design, custom and standard components to contract manufacturing and product distribution. Transferring these activities beyond the traditional enterprise increases the challenges associated with monitoring critical processes, visibility of the business activities and monitoring performance that affect operational costs and customer performance."

The solution provides the ability to define the specific business processes and data elements that are required to monitor any given point or transaction within the network and examine the corresponding key performance indicators and exception conditions (SCEM) to proactively notify participants in real-time to react to exceptions. The Sockeye Rapid Partner On-boarding Program ensures that visibility is extended quickly beyond the enterprise and leverages both existing connectivity infrastructure and Sockeye's Agent Framework. The end2end Visibility Template is deployed on Sockeye Solutions' Collaborative Application Framework (CAF) and is highly configurable using Sockeye's Business Process Modelling Studio (SWIFT) to define new business processes as supply chain requirements evolve.

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How end2end Visibility 3.0 Works

Data elements for each node of the supply chain are defined according to the business process model associated with the required transactions. Higher- level aggregations and dis-aggregations can also provide visibility at multiple levels through simple drill down or drill up methods. Through the administration configuration, users throughout the supply chain can subscribe to information, processes, services and alerts that affect their performance and objectives. New processes and partners are easily added to extend the visibility into their customers and suppliers. Increased functionality such as inventory replenishment, procurement collaboration or logistics visibility can also be added into deployments as requirements change.

Benefits of end2end Visibility 3.0 include:

• Fast Implementation and Deployment

• Reusable building blocks (processes, components and services) can be configured and deployed across any supply chain or division
• Rapid Partner On-boarding Program supports several connectivity options and a phased implementation strategy

• React Quickly to Changes in the Network

• end2end supply chain hierarchical alerting against business processes
• Real-time business process modification and deployment

• Incremental Business Process Optimisation

• Identify and monitor critical components and processes
• Reduce inventory and lead times
• Create communities for collaboration and sharing information

• Create Immediate Customer Value

• Proactive identification, notification and resolution of problems across the enterprise and all business partners

Sockeye Application Templates are pre-configured software components developed to speed customer deployment of Collaborative Supply Chain applications. Developed using standard supply chain best practices, the templates deliver the functionality required to execute generic collaboration business processes. Customers then configure the templates to meet the unique and evolving requirements of their specific supply chain(s) and business relationships. This configuration can be easily performed by business users-as opposed to expensive customisation-and can adapt as a company's supply chain and business partners evolve. The result is a unique application, deployed quickly, that captures the competitive advantage of the customer's supply chain.

Residing outside the "four walls," the Application Templates are truly native to the Internet and make extended enterprise planning and execution a reality. Sockeye's Collaborative Application Framework (CAF) supports and enhances existing technology systems to better execute real-time communication and planning throughout the extended supply chain and among multiple tiers of trading partners.