Establishes the Benchmark with Real-Time, J2EE Service-Oriented Architecture
and Best-in-Class Business Process and Event Management
TEWKSBURY, Mass.- May 16, 2002 - Yantra Corporation (www.yantra.com), the
leading provider of enterprise software for the extended supply chain, today
announced the first proven business process platform to power and coordinate
multi-enterprise supply chains. The platform provides the comprehensive
infrastructure and flexibility required for Global 2000 companies to model,
configure and dynamically manage extended supply chain processes, and is
already proven in more than 30 customer implementations.
Leading companies realize that the next step-change in productivity and
responsiveness will come from improving cross-division and cross-enterprise
business processes. The key is linking and synchronizing discrete order and
inventory processes such as channel management; supply and demand
collaboration; order fulfillment; procurement; and delivery across multiple
divisions and trading partners. Unfortunately, most companies lack the
technical infrastructure and proper application capabilities to do this
effectively.
Traditional supply chain management (SCM) and enterprise resource planning
(ERP) solutions have been architected as the internal “system of record” to
centralize data and processes, limiting coordination of business processes
outside the enterprise. Yantra’s Platform combines a J2EE service-oriented
architecture with best-in-class business process and event management
capabilities to provide the infrastructure for a scalable “system of
process” that can coordinate and manage orders and inventory across
complex, multi-enterprise supply chains. It is built on the technological
and functional pillars required for inter and intra-enterprise business
strategies. These include:
Business Process Management:
o Business Process Modeling: provides the ability for users to define the
complete process of a supply chain transaction (order, forecast
collaboration, schedule collaboration, returns, etc.) Business users can
model the business process to meet the unique needs of any enterprise,
channel, supply or fulfillment business model.
o Event Management: monitors and resolves critical events in each supply
chain process. Capabilities include rules for time-sensitive monitoring of
events, participant notification of events and the automation of corrective
actions and resolution.
o Relationship Modeling: provides the ability to model the complex
many-to-many enterprise relationships, allowing for the management of the
roles, business rules, permissions and communication requirements of each
enterprise involved in a process.
Multi-Enterprise Data Model:
o Many-to-Many Transaction Data Model
o Common Analytics & Business Performance Data Model
o Shared Participant Data Model
Service-Oriented Architecture:
o Net-Native Architecture
o Open Standards-based: J2EE, Native XML, SOAP, LDAP, UDDI
o 100% Native XML APIs: Over 200 available
o Web-Service Enabled
With the Yantra Platform, companies can complement their existing ERP, SCM
and CRM systems while extending complex business processes across disparate
systems and external trading partners.
AMR Research made the following comments about the Yantra Platform in the
AMR Alert on May 9, 2002: “What emerged was a credible picture of how the
notoriously thorny order management problem can be solved with an
architecture specifically built around the idea that customer fulfillment
must encompass multiple enterprises and systems. The idea is not new – we’
ve all seen the powerpoint slides – but Yantra’s customers and live software
demonstration suggest that it may finally be realistic for users to expect.”
“Yantra’s scalable platform is available today for managing a real-time,
inter-enterprise supply chain,” said Rob Sweeney, VP of Product Management
at Yantra. “While many software vendors have made recent announcements
about their intent to adopt a service-based architecture (SBA), Yantra’s
customers are already leveraging this platform to deploy our solutions
across their extended supply chains.”
About Yantra
Founded in 1995, Yantra is the leading provider of distributed commerce
management solutions. The Company’s applications extend existing enterprise
systems to coordinate and monitor distributed orders and inventory across
multiple business units, customers, suppliers and trading partners. Global
2000 companies use Yantra’s solutions to leverage new revenue opportunities,
drive new operational efficiencies and increase service levels.
Yantra has deep domain expertise in supply chain management and works with
some of the world’s leading businesses including Allogis (DHL), APL Direct,
Argos, Best Buy, Eastman Chemical, Hallmark, Honeywell, Motorola, Rockport,
ScanSource, School Specialty Inc. and Target Corporation. The Company is
privately held and based outside Boston, Massachusetts. For more
information, please visit www.yantra.com.
Yantra and the Yantra logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Yantra
Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other names are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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