The Supply Chain Management (SCM) suite is a set of web-based applications which enable trading partners to work co-operatively in the space between their own back-office systems. Each module can be licensed separately for use, and enables you to share information in a secure way with your trading partners or to view (and if desired, import into your system) information which they have made available to you.

The current modules are:

Price Manager: enabling the sharing of price lists and price change proposals

Inventory Manager: enabling the sharing of quantities of product stocks in different locations

Transport Manager: enabling the weights of delivered loads and new delivery opportunities to be shared

 Code Manager: enabling pairs of trading partners to align their product codes and delivery address codes prior to engaging in electronic document exchange

All of these applications are hosted by F4F in their secure data centres and communicate with the eHub by means of the HUB Gateway.

Information can be fed to these applications directly from a sender’s IT system via the F4F eHub in the normal way. As well as sending the information itself, the sender can prescribe exactly who is allowed to view the data and for how long it is to remain published.

For those who are viewing the information, access to all the modules for which they have subscribed is provided via a single logon and password. Senders can be alerted to any information which is changed via one of the modules by means of an e-mail being sent from the website to the sender of the information.