The purpose of supply chain management is to improve trust and collaboration among supply chain partners, with the goal of improving inventory visibility and inventory velocity. Supply chain management is concerned with obtaining and transporting raw materials or lower level components into an organization, processing these materials into finished goods and moving finished goods toward to the buyer or towards the ultimate consumer.

These functions are increasingly being outsourced to other entities that can perform the activities better or more cost effectively. This, in turn, increases the number of organizations involved in satisfying customer demand, while reducing management control of daily logistics operations. Less control and more supply chain partners lead to the need for business processes that facilitate the collaboration of all parties.

Xentza's mission is to provide web based business solutions for the extended enterprise that integrates the collaboration of internal and external contributors to automate the entire process of supply chain management.

To learn more about any member of the Xtenza Solutions application family for supply chain management, visit one of the pages listed below:

• eProcuremate - Supplier relationships
• eContractmate - Contracts
• eAuctionmate - Reverse (buyer) auctions
• eLogixmate - End to end logistics
• eTravelmate - Travel and expenses