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Supply Chain Process Integration

Events across the supply chain impact on your business and your ability to meet customer expectations. Companies that obtain visibility of and manage these events can build a source of competitive advantage in the marketplace.

There is a growing imperative for increased collaboration between parties within and across the supply chain. Service providers, including Ports, Shipping Companies, Airlines, domestic transport providers and border agencies all have process and services impacting on the movement of goods. And yet there is limited process collaboration between them.

Process collaboration can provide exciting end to end visibility, management of events as they occur, reuse of legacy data and points of integration. Greater collaboration between service providers will allow service levels to be monitored, managed and reported on.

The ECN Group provides a range of application and process integrations supporting the movement of goods across the supply chain.

The ECN Group has an extensive network of existing points of integration available today through its messaging network services. In New Zealand and in Australia we provide an unparalleled breadth of messaging services impacting on New Zealand's and Australian supply chain movements. Often existing points of integration can be reused across different customers supply chain requirements.

Business Process Management of entire supply chains processes can be added to existing ECN points of integration and information.

The ECN Group's objective within the logistics and transport industry is to provide a range of usage based services, increasing the level of business process integration between associated parties within the supply chain, to encourage the reuse of event information and data were permissible.

The ECN Group services features include functions for visibility, monitoring, alerting and reporting on supply chain events. ECN supports specific integration applications allowing interfaces to and from Terminals, Freight Forwarders, Couriers, Transport companies, Airlines, Shipping companies and Customs authorities.

NZ Customs & MAF - Electronic Messaging

NZ Customs & MAF entries and reporting are an important part of any trade into or out of New Zealand.

The ECN Group provides a range of integration services to enable parties moving cargoes into and out of New Zealand, including full end to end transactional support with New Zealand Customs.

ECN services provided include managed messaging service (MMS) used by Ports and freight forwarders, On-line customs entries for web created customs entries and related information and process integration for Airlines and cargo terminal operators reporting freight movements related to New Zealand. For more information on ECN's NZ Customs Service click here

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