Built on the Opus™ digital community platform to present full upstream visibility and full interoperability with direct suppliers
BOSTON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — HintLink Inc., the main digital community platform firm, at present introduced the availability of Supply Chain Work Management for Direct Supply—the first answer to allow healthcare and life sciences firms to join and collaborate with all suppliers, together with contract producers, in real-time and guarantee full upstream visibility. Supply Chain Work Management for Direct Supply is the quickest and best path to provide chain digital transformation for leaders in Supply Chain, External Manufacturing, Procurement, and extra.

Powered by the Opus Platform, Supply Chain Work Management for Direct Supply allows full digitalization of the buy order course of by linking techniques to share buy order knowledge in real-time, linking individuals to allow collaboration as wanted, and digitalizing an infinite variety of supporting multienterprise planning and procurement processes. Purchase orders are shared by way of three modes of integration between ERP and the suppliers by way of the HintLink Opus Digital Network Platform:
- Full B2B Data Exchange: Purchase orders and updates are communicated between clients’ and suppliers’ ERP techniques.
- Hybrid B2B Exchange: Purchase orders and updates are communicated from clients’ ERP to the Opus community and manually reviewed and up to date by the suppliers by way of an interoperable interface, eliminating one-off portals which stymie provide chain digitalization efforts.
- Manual: Engage with suppliers by way of the Supply Chain Work Management person expertise — with full data interoperability throughout the community of firms utilizing the answer — to share, evaluation, and replace buy orders.
“Integrating with suppliers’ systems to exchange B2B data in real-time to achieve effective supply chain visibility and execution has eluded supply chain leaders for more than 30 years,” stated Shabbir Dahod, President and CEO of HintLink. “With the Supply Chain Work Management for Direct Supply solution, manufacturers will be able to link with all suppliers and CMOs to replace EDI and outdated point-to-point integrations with Opus network-based integration. Coupled with the solution’s work management capabilities, supply chain leaders can empower internal teams and engage suppliers to create agile network ecosystems that are a true competitive advantage, with a level of visibility and orchestration that has eluded them for years.”
The Supply Chain Work Management for Direct Supply duties functionality digitalizes guide work between provide chain companions—from buy order collaboration, materials scarcity decision, alternate provider choice, and shared forecasts, to tech transfers, new product launches, part 3 commercialization, and past. The distinctive multienterprise job administration workflows allow visibility and collaboration throughout a number of tiers of provide chain companions, permitting them to execute cross-company processes quicker and extra successfully than ever earlier than. When job administration is coupled with further pre-built provide chain course of templates for challenge administration and change requests, in addition to the skill to leverage no-code customization functionality for modifying workflows, person experiences, and person roles and entry controls, Supply Chain Work Management for Direct Supply offers distributed groups with the instruments required to speed up provide chain digitalization efforts.
“Supply Chain Work Management for Direct Supply is a revolutionary new solution,” stated Karl Waldman, HintLink General Manager for Agile Process Teams. “Managers can track tasks from beginning to end, assign unique subtasks to different supply chain partners, and set deadlines to ensure projects get done on time. Dashboards help executives at each company to monitor processes by due date, priority, and workflow status. Frequently used cross-company processes can be quickly digitalized using predefined task templates that are easily customized to meet different partner ecosystem needs. Executives can expect to improve key business metrics including on-time, in-full and lower cost of goods sold. There is nothing like Supply Chain Work Management available in the marketplace.”
About HintLink
TraceLink is the solely business community creation platform for the Internet of Supply Chains™—built-in business ecosystems constructed with multienterprise functions on the HintLink Opus platform. Business networks are the basis of an end-to-end provide chain digitalization technique that delivers customer-centric agility and resiliency leveraging the collective intelligence of an trade. The TraceLink Opus Digital Network Platform allows pace of open innovation and implementation with a companion ecosystem for no-code and low-code improvement of options and functions.
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