UCCnet: The Basics
Retailers and their key suppliers have begun driving toward collaborative networks that will reduce their costs by reducing inventories, and improve revenue by preventing stock-outs. These new trading relationships often expand and extend software touch-points beyond traditional supply chain technology, such as EDI.
A key enabler for these relationships is agreement between trading partners on both the technology used to transmit the information and, more importantly, the business data itself. One area that is receiving significant attention in the market is business data synchronization for items.[1]
[1] Mercator UCCnet documentation.
For example, suppliers incorrectly fill a large number of purchase orders because the retailer ...
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