Improving agility to market while reducing costs in the face of continued price erosion and rapidly shrinking product life cycles is a challenge faced by most organizations in the high-tech industries. Added to the problems of the industrys already complex supply chains is the dilemma of extensive outsourcing, globalization and the continued customer demands for ongoing innovation and new products. In order to manage the product lifecycle more efficiently, companies need to close the gap on cost control and become more effective at delivering quality products faster.

Exactus provides leading supply chain management solutions for the high-tech and electronics industry that can help you gain better visibility into your supply chain to minimize excess inventory and eliminate non-value added costs. Real-time information about your business operations can help you streamline product lifecycle management by allowing better collaboration with your customers and suppliers. The Aware product from Exactus can help you with optimization of facilities and inventory deployment as well as automation of labor-intensive manual processes to reduce overall costs and maximize cash flow.

Aware seamlessly integrates with leading third party ERP applications and can be easily interfaced with legacy and external disparate systems to give a holistic view of your operations as well as allow you to collaborate and transact with business partners using internet protocols with high levels of security. Awares advanced B2B interoperability infrastructure, encompassing internet and XML standards, allows real-time transaction of cooperative business processes and shared information to help you better manage ever-shrinking product lifecycles.

Inventory obsolescence and inventory value reduction are real problems in the high-tech and electronics industries that must be managed prudently. In order to avoid excess or inadequate inventory situations, Awares comprehensive set of visibility tools and event management features, including scheduled auto-alerts, can help you closely monitor inventory levels and enable you to proactively take any corrective action before an out of line situation occurs.

With parent-child serial number tracking and lot-serial tracking features of Aware, product traceability becomes very straightforward, allowing you to seamlessly manage product recalls and warranty claims. Complete order lifecycle visibility from receipt through to fulfillment and shipment, as well as real-time performance metrics, can help address rigid customer demands and improve customer satisfaction.