Supply Chain Management (SCM) Software Development

What is a Supply Chain Management Software?

Supply Chain Management software (SCMS) facilitates the Management and execution of supply chain transactions at each step: from the manufacturer through the retailer until they reach the final customer.

Besides offering business-specific solutions for each of the stages and processes within the chain, they also automate management activities and make their traceability possible.
Supply Chain Management (SCM) development services help companies optimize, integrate and automate supply chain processes according to each company's productive cycle. If you integrate SCM software into your operations, you will obtain an overview of all the processes in your supply chain, favouring better Management of all of them.
As a result of the acceleration and evolution in Digital Transformation, we have increasingly complete information systems that have allowed logistics operations in companies to be faster, more efficient, and more automatic.

Logistics and supply chain software development

In Chudovo, we are experts in custom logistics and supply chain management (SCM) software development. We've covered every step of the process, starting with initial analysis, consulting, end-to-end action, rolling the product out and its post-release support. Our programmers will develop digital solutions for your transportation and fleet management, warehouse management, procurement, and more business.

End-to-end software development

We are ready to be your trusted partner for supply chain software development services development.
Modernization of the systems

Enhance your software solution or platform with cutting-edge technologies and advance it to the most recent industry standards.
Automation and optimization

Encourage the performance of your supply chain management software or its separate subparts by automating tedious manual processes.
Third-party system integration

Bring the utmost business value to your company by integrating any software from a third party.

Key Highlights | CHUDOVO SCM Development Services

Chudovo's dedicated SCM developers deliver dynamic supply chain management services.

Integration Services (SCM-ERP)

We help you integrate SCM ERPs providing your business with higher operational visibility, incredible speed, and expanded efficiency.

Integration Services (SCM-Blockchain)

Chudovo's team integrates blockchain technologies with various SCM modules and advanced features such as Warehousing, Accounting, or Supply chain management.

Expertise in SCM

Chudovo is a custom supply chain software development company that develops SCM solutions for multiple industries tailoring them to the custom needs of your enterprise.

Personalized Consulting

We find the inefficiencies in your existing workflow and turn them into your newly acquired business value since we add value to suit your business and industry requirements.

Industrialization 4.0

We set up a global network of machines in a smart factory and deploy their capability of autonomous information exchange, programming them to how they control each other. This opportunity pushes the transformation of the supply chain to an efficient and flawlessly integrated ecosystem providing you with immense business transparency.

Cloud Service

To build a solution capable of being your trusted business associate, we provide you with cloud-based SCM services. Cloud-based SCM services are critical if you want to forget about the loss of products for good by always being able to identify the shipment's exact location at any time.

Stages of SCM development

At Chudovo, we develop solutions that improve the quality and efficiency of the services offered by your Supply Chain business. We would create an app that organizes your deliveries, allows you to satisfy your customers, and favors your company's professional and agile image.

SCM platform created by us will have multiple functions that ensure the efficiency of logistics work at all process stages because we offer centralized business management.

Finding a suitable Methodology

We decide on the ultimate SCM development methodology based on various factors, including the project size, how complex it is, and the budget and time to implement it.

Defining a Project Specification

We conduct a detailed brief to understand your project's specifics better. After this stage, we could plan the implementation and the workflow in an appropriate way.

Choosing an Outsourcing Partner

At this stage, we determine what skills your in-house team lacks, so we can gather a team that would supplement the lacking talent to deliver what you need.

Tracking progress with supply chain management tools

Everyone involved in the project could track each stage of the project completion through the tools we always provide to check the efficient execution. Tools like Trello or Jira allow all the participants to review the documented workflows and communicate in messaging threads.

QA testing

Chudovo's developing team conducts multiple testing throughout the development process, increasing their number when the product is about to be released. This stage of QA testing is crucial to mitigate the risk of error.

10 Crucial SCM Software Types

Business leaders should keep up with the trend of SCM applications that could be their ally in outperforming the competitors and being the needed boost leading to improving operational performance. We have prepared a list of the top examples to make choosing optimal tools for your company easier. Let's explore the systems for supply management chains available in the market.

01

Processing the orders

The speed of processing the new orders directly influences the satisfaction of your customers and, thus, the revenue. That's why it is vital to make this business area exceptionally efficient.
An effective SCM solution should have the following features:
· Tracking the shipped orders
· Processing of the order accomplishment
· Automated billing
· Generation of invoices
· Paperless PO
When you automate the aforementioned supply chain components, human errors get minimized. Moreover, your organization gains additional space for growth due to the released creativity of your employees since they don't have to do repetitive paperwork and administrative tasks and can get involved in value-generating tasks instead.
02

Scheduling

Usually, the SCM software is a solution based in the cloud, automating time tracking activities, staff scheduling, communication efforts etc. Utilizing such software, you could prevent the issues related to the payroll, raise employee satisfaction and reduce the amount of scheduling-related conflicts.
Typically, a platform for scheduling will have the following components:
· System of instant messaging
· Recommendations for the optimal schedule
· Feature of managing the shift swap, availability, holiday and leave
· Online creation and Management of a schedule
· Timesheets to register the automatic clock-in and -out
03

Inventory Management

If your supply chain company requires warehouse space optimization, inventory management software is the right solution to cope with this task. Moreover, it could help you in forecasting customer demand so you can avert being under and out-stocked, and you can also streamline the planning of production.
Since warehouse management tools are outfitted with artificial intelligence technologies, logistics activities are eased as never before. For example, the AI would bundle specific product shipments by the marker of same-day shipment so the products could be retrieved easier.
04

Truck Dispatching

Getting yourself a trucking dispatch software, you simplify the tasks of:
· Scheduling
· Track routing since it gets automated
· Monitoring the state of delivery transport
This way, you significantly simplify the work of your supply chain enterprise. Trucking dispatch software is the right choice if you want to get rid of empty miles once and for good, if the communication with stakeholders is highly time-consuming, or if you experience difficulties routing the shipping.
05

Shipment Monitoring

Cross-referenced and real-time information makes it possible to track the shipments at every step of the delivery process with ongoing GPS location tracking and anticipate unforeseen events, thereby reducing anxieties about delays and accessing agile solutions to problems that arise. This way, you can fully control the company's operations and make the entire distribution network visible at hand.
Suppose the features mentioned above are not enough for your enterprise, and you want to facilitate the tracking capabilities to the next level. In that case, you can embrace the IoT technology enhancing your truck's cargo with intelligent sensors that would provide timely updates on the conditions in which your products are transported. This would allow you to ensure the clients that the items would arrive in proper condition whenever you carry the delivery out, no matter how long they had to travel to reach their final recipient.
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Demand Forecasting

Solutions for forecasting demand could be a separate tool integrated with SCM software or a part of a supply chain management system. The main aim of such apps is to be able to forecast future demand to manage the inventory better, plan the distribution of labor resources etc.
The solutions currently available on the market involve the machine learning mechanism. Thus, their predictions are based on more than just historical data, which might need to be updated in such a fast-paced market, but on the most recent information about the market. ML-powered tools promptly process a large amount of data, making these forecasts accurate overall.
07

Business Intelligence

One more type of SCM software essential for successfully handling business processes is that it can provide comprehensive and up-to-the-minute business intelligence. A business that seeks expansion, growth, improvement and, of course, more significant profits would need proper and detailed data analytics.
For this reason, enterprises often involve data analysis tools in their business. They help them with overall performance assessment, analysis of sales and marketing campaign success rate, and identification of causes of errors or delivery delays.
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Customer and Supplier Management

The main goal of supply chain companies is to satisfy customers' needs through the suppliers. Typically the tools that can facilitate this connection are CRM platforms that can gather all the customer and supplier-related information in one place.
Using CRM arms you with information on all clients and partners interaction, so you can keep track of all the communication processes in one place and also analyze how the chosen group of customers affects your company's business. You can maximize your organizational performance by being informed about all the client-related ongoing processes.
09

Client Support

Customers expect to contact the delivery company anytime if they have issues or questions about their delivery. Thus, it would help if you allowed your customers to contact a representative operator through your website's customer support chat function.
Besides the essential functions, some other enterprises enhance customer support with artificial intelligence, which can generate an automated transcription of phone calls and provide real-time analytics and prompts for your contact center. This way, you can rest assured that all the customer issues have been resolved promptly without damaging the percentage of customer satisfaction.
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Collaboration

Tools that facilitate collaboration make it easier for a supply chain business to flourish. Ultimately, the multiple stakeholders you have across the whole value chain should be able to interact.
Such software would allow you to facilitate communication to discuss specific tasks, possible problem zones, shipment issues, and potential contracts relying on the chat function and project management solutions enclosed as a function.

Chudovo could assist you with

We provide the development services for the implementation or integration of the following SCM solutions:

Planning and optimization of a supply chain

The state-of-the-art AI provides recommendations on optimizing the supply chain (e.g., what goods you should order and when is the ultimate time to collect them, judging by the AI-powered price chart analysis).

Creating a supply chain digital twin would assist you in testing various supply chain action plans and weighing their effectiveness and impact so you can choose the perfect one evaluating their impact based on facts.

Value: You can utilize the resources more effectively, synchronize the components of a supply chain, and fulfill the customer demand, optimizing the costs.

Supply chain risk management

You get transparency of all your supply chain operations processes, including operations of suppliers and external carriers supported by advanced AI. A shared space for you and your suppliers to collaboratively resolve and discuss the arising issues. Customizable dashboards provide you with a unified view of supply chain processes and KPIs related to them.

Value: Manage risks proactively, improve the cooperation with your suppliers, and add up end-to-end chain visibility.

Management of inventory and warehouse

· Monitoring the shelf life and dates of expiration

· Matchless calculation of safety stock

· Tracking of location and inventory levels (deploying the barcode or RFID technology)

· Automated replenishment system

· Tracking of serial numbers

Value: This way, you can decrease the costs of carrying the inventory processes, speed up the order fulfillment, increase its accuracy in the meantime, minimize loss of inventory and shortages and optimize the labor costs.

Logistics management

· planning and optimizing the schedules of the route

· Tracking the freight in real-time

· Case management of transport accidents (notifications and reports upon the accidents with carriages, issuing requests for repairments and routing).

· Connectivity of IoT for during transportation product condition monitoring

Value: This way, you can utilize the vehicle park more effectively, optimize and decrease the logistics operating costs and deliver your products on time.

Management of obtainments

· Recommendations to assign suppliers for the purchase orders based on the analytics.

· Prompt template-based creation of order requisition, purchase orders, RFxs.

· Create and manage the base of favored suppliers

· Execution tracking of purchase orders (For several tiers if requested).

· Tools to collaborate with suppliers to discuss the order’s accomplishment.

· Purchase requisitions and orders could be approved through an automated workflow

· Matching automated in a three-way (purchase orders, receipts for them, and invoices from the suppliers that are available from the single source and are cross-compared so you could reveal inconsistencies in a very prompt way)

Value: Streamline and standardize the purchasing process, and improve the visibility of spending.

Management of supplier relationship

· Choose the suppliers based on the customizable analytics (you could pre-qualify them based on their technical prospects, financial health/viability, the ethical side of business processes, etc.).

· Automated alerts for the suppliers to update the data to expire soon (certifications, accreditations).

· Ongoing compliance checks and performance analytics of your suppliers

· Ability to choose and nominate the supplier collaborating with internal teams

· Improved planning of capacity with supplier portal

· Prompt creation of sourcing events based on templates (e-auctions, e-tenders, etc.).

Value: This way, you can reduce the regulatory risk and ease the supply chain compliance processes, improve the sourcing strategy, and enhance supplier engagement.

Managing the order

· Processing the order through a centralized multichannel

· Orders would be automatically routed upon the optimal location of their fulfillment

· Management of returns

· Centralized multichannel sales order processing

· Availability of various order fulfillment types and methods (same-day delivery, ship-from-abroad, BOPIS, etc.).

Value: These features would enable your business to increase the order fulfillment rate, reducing shipping costs and leading to a higher customer satisfaction rate.

Benefits of supply chain management software

Better visibility

A vital element of effective supply chain management software is complete visibility, allowing you to track the product from the manufacturer to delivery to its final destination.

Since logistics processes are enhanced with cutting-edge technologies like cloud-based systems of communication, sensors, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, and advanced tracking software to follow each stage of the logistics process, we could provide all the stakeholders with end-to-end visibility, streamline the processes, automate the maintenance and improve efficiency across all segments and operations.

These tech opportunities arm you with a centralized view of inventory, the supply chain activity, and all the processes and systems involved in all the logistics operations. In times of disruption, all parties must stay informed and up to date.

Enhanced efficiency and customer satisfaction

Inefficient supply chains have a tremendous unnecessary cost to organizations. By finding and eliminating bottlenecks that are the reason for delays in your processes, you could increase the speed of order delivery. Moreover, SCM software integration boosts productivity in daily tasks since their automation and decreases time-to-market.

Good logistics management will impact the quality of service and end customers' experience. If done efficiently, it will prevent errors that negatively affect customer satisfaction and make products and services more attractive. This step will be essential to customer loyalty since speed and delivery facilities are vital factors.

Analytics

Integrated supply chain analytics is a powerful strategy to keep your enterprise running at peak efficiency and reduce downtime to a minimum.

Each process in the supply chain generates a massive amount of data valuable to the business if it functions correctly.

Applying analytics to the supply chain helps organizations to have better tools to make wise, informed, fast and efficient data-driven decisions. All the information, like the optimal supplier for raw materials in terms of cost, sales figures and delivery timeframes, would be thoroughly analyzed. This way, you could improve each stage of the supply chain operation and delight your customers with the best experience in the market.

Use operational and IoT data, from the manufacturing floor to the back office, to plan all the business processes, proactively manage assets, and increase efficiency.

Digitization

By digitizing your supply chain, you reduce precious time on unnecessary paperwork.

Thanks to the digitalization of your organization, you collect information more efficiently so decision-makers can use the information more quickly. With digitization, managers can drill down and get a complete picture of specific suppliers, countries and product lines while quickly gathering information to put together the complete and accurate puzzle of their supply chain. Digitalization ensures that all the orders are managed effectively, and the number of delays is significantly reduced. Also, trends can be more easily observed to assess short- and long-term performance.

Lowering costs

Decreasing the operational costs would have a beneficial impact on the business's net income and overall success.

Effective supply chain management software detects costly processes that do not add value to the final product. This allows a company to minimize or eliminate these processes, reducing operating costs.

Moreover, being in control of payments would ensure timely money transfers to suppliers, which would allow you to avoid the fees for late-payments and may even let you earn a payment discount for paying early.

Greater agility

One of the advantages of a digital platform is the speed at which anything can happen. Actions are taken, reports are generated, and analysis is completed in moments rather than days or weeks. Thus, managers can address quality and compliance issues almost before they arise, saving time and money.

Complete visibility of your supply chain improves the flexibility of your digital chain, optimizes performance and increases the resilience of your entire operation. This way, you can promptly react to the disruptions, such as issues with the supplier or changes in the demands of clients, so you can keep the customer satisfaction rate high and generate even more profit.

Increased compliance

Multiple supply chain processes have to follow strict compliance guidelines. For example, the raw materials should comply with specific standards, and you should remember the sustainability standards. If you get the supplements overseas, all international shipments should have the documents to pass customs. SCM software increases transparency so you can build process compliance measures, decreasing the possibility of human errors.

Since the software would double-check that all the regulations are met, it is possible to achieve the mitigation of non-compliance risk and be fined for it. This way, you could rest assured that no damage would ever happen to your brand's reputation.

Mitigate risk

Several economic, political, technological and environmental factors could put the continuity of your supply chain at risk. Timely identification of these risks is possible through thorough monitoring, allowing you to detect potential threats before they arise. This would give you an advantage in time to downplay the disruption, always having a plan since you would be aware of the potential issues.

FAQ

What does supply chain management software do? Answer

SCM software (Supply Chain Management, supply chain management) is an ERP program specialized in improving and automating a manufacturing company's supply, storage and distribution, thereby reducing the necessary stocks and delivery times.

In this way, companies can better use their resources, adapting their production process. Warehouse needs to meet customer demands, thus offering them the quality service and differentiated experience they expect.

The SCM software for supply chain management covers all the planning and control processes of manufacturing, storage and logistics distribution, along with those for stock and inventory management that you need for your production, keeping track of stocks and facilitating their Management.

What features does a good supply chain management software obtain? Answer

Excellent supply chain management software is the one that answers your business needs. Since every business has specific needs, you should choose a solution based on how it satisfies the needs of your business's supply chain, customers and suppliers.

Thus, the excellent supply chain management solution is customized to the unique needs of your particular enterprise and its business specifics. If you don't need deep customization, out-the-box solutions available at the market could be integrated into your business processes. There are several globally recognized solutions; the most outstanding are SAP and Oracle.

What is the difference between scm and crm? Answer

CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is a software that focuses on Customer Relationship Management and their prospects. A CRM system allows you to store information from all Clients and analyze it to develop more efficient marketing strategies.

SCM (Supply Chain Management) software assists you in administrating supply networks. With it, you can manage business processes around logistics and customer service: purchases, supply, production, storage, preparation, distribution and after-sales. Supply Chain Management (SCM) contributes to the coordination and optimization of business processes, helps to reduce costs and offers a better response to the customer.

What are the types of supply chain tools? Answer

There are various types of supply chain management tools which vary depending on the needs they fulfill. There are tools for managing warehouse and supplier relationships, analytical tools forecasting the demand, tracking and managing the shipping, processing the orders, etc.