Supply Chain Control end-to-end in a single place
Make data-driven decisions and optimize your entire supply chain with Virtual Buying Office (VBO), our comprehensive supply chain management platform that integrates seamlessly with your ERP systems. VBO enables detailed planning, tracking, and reporting from purchase order (PO) creation to final delivery down to SKU level, acting as your logistics operations' command center to save time and reduce costs while ensuring smooth workflow.
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Visibility End-to-End
VBO integrates with your ERP to offer year-round visibility and traceability from PO inception to final delivery. From one platform, monitor all orders, update plans, and manage delays, while your vendors are trained to input data directly, reducing bottlenecks.
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Purchase Order & Milestones Tracking
Purchase orders created in your ERP system are instantly accessible in VBO with full details and real-time tracking of all milestones from inception to delivery. Additionally, VBO provides status updates down to the SKU level, enabling precise monitoring of critical items in your orders.
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eBooking Portal
Once vendors receive the purchase order, they can directly arrange bookings through the VBO platform, eliminating bottlenecks and saving time. Manage all bookings on the platform, maintaining continuous cargo visibility without reliance on emails or phone calls. Set preferences for container capacity, mode, and priority on your POs to ensure timely bookings.
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Dashboard Performance
The best way to access and understand all your information is to summarize your data with dashboards. Based on your requirements, you can glance upon your key metrics within the Dashboards in VBO, while also receiving detailed reports on a schedule or on demand.
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Emissions Dashboard & Reporting
Sustainability is at the forefront of our business and we understand the importance of monitoring your carbon footprint responsibly. Through using VBO, you can have access to carbon emissions reports, with a variety of filter options to sort, organize and download your data.
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Other Features
Vendor automatic follow up | Online Vendor Booking | Document capture | Destination delivery booking |EDI/API message exchange | SOP bound - parameters & requirements | Scheduled and customised reports | Data and information secured by encryption and stored in private servers
Navigating complex Supply Chains is a challenge
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Multiple stakeholders to contact and manage
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Lack of visibility in key times
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Vendor Follow Up is time consuming
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Data Analysis requires multiple touchpoints and sources
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Tracking costs is a chore
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Contract management can be a hassle
Spend less time on your supply chain and more on your Product
We take care of the complexities with proven expertise
Zero Defect Implementation
We follow a proven project management methodology when introducing new businesses to the Kerry Logistics Network. Full stakeholder engagement and pre-assigned onboarding teams are critical for achieving a zero-defect launch.
- Applying a methodical stepped approach where business implementation is based on a well-established and proven project management methodology.
- A dedicated on-boarding team will be assigned to the implementation, along with an overall owner of the programme.
- Frequent implementation meetings with all parties concerned attending, meeting minutes, planning, problem-solving, reporting on issues, and overall project timelines.
Seamless Integrations with over 20 ERPS
We are proud to collaborate with some of the most renowned global brands, who are currently leveraging our Virtual Buying Office (VBO) platform. Our Solution Engineering Team in Adelaide specializes in local data integration and will tailor EDIs (Electronic Data Interchange) or APIs (Application Programming Interface) to seamlessly integrate and enhance connectivity with your existing systems. Our EDI platform supports various file formats (CSV, XML, JSON, etc) through various EDI transport protocols (such as SFTP, API, Email, etc).
Customised Reporting and Analytics
VBO reports can be customised to your requirements, to make sure you make the most out of your data when decision making time comes. This adaptability and flexibility are what enable us to provide state-of-the-art solutions consistently.
As part of our standard reporting, we have available:
- DIFOT
- Invoicing and clearance timelines
- Freight Spend
- Container and Contract Utilization
- Duty Spend
- Volume breakdown
- Pre-clearance times
- Carrier Performance
- Incident Reports
- Trade Lane Data
Furthermore, you are able to choose the frequency and channel to receive your reports.
Case Study - A BCO Customer using VBO
Our customer implemented VBO successfully to improve lead times in their supply chain.
Their pain points:
- Updates on cargo received only until arrival was imminent
- Delays in production due to reactive management
- Backlog of materials and operational congestion, causing detention costs
Want to know if this could be a solution for you?