Current situation
The design phase is the first step in your EDI/Middleware or Traceability project. It allows you to take stock of your systems and environments to establish a coherent and comprehensive action plan. From this phase, Predell plays its advisory role and offers proposals to guide you towards services that meet 100% of your needs.
Depending on the problem encountered and the level of objectives to be achieved, we apply approaches adapted to each situation, ranging from a few working meetings to several workshops to guide the decision-makers and future users of the company in formulating their needs. The development of your EDI system requires a solid upstream strategy and is essential for the future of your business. Whatever the size of your company, it is important to ask the right questions to consolidate and sustain your activity.
360 Audit
Tailor-made
This audit provides a 360° view of the company. Tailored to your needs, it is entirely adapted to your context to understand and evolve the system already in place.
Complete observation
The audit provides a global, specific, and detailed view to recommend the essential actions for the project and propose an implementation plan.
Action plan
The precision and finesse of the analysis allow for the creation of a tailor-made action plan based on your highlighted needs.
To begin the design phase, we conduct a 360° Audit. This allows you to take stock of your EDI/Middleware or Traceability environment to establish a coherent and comprehensive action plan. The development of your system requires a solid upstream strategy and is essential for the future of your business. Whatever the size of your company, it is important to ask the right questions to consolidate and sustain your activity.
For an effective and profitable EDI and Traceability project, it is important to know your strengths and weaknesses. At Predell, we advise you based on your daily operations, as experts. Various situations may require a complete audit of the system:
The expansion of the company’s activities to new markets.
The implementation of EDI relationships with new suppliers or customers.
The need to streamline exchanges with existing partners.
The need to improve product traceability throughout the supply chain.
The realization of the obsolescence of an EDI platform.
A model based on feedback from experience
In this design phase, Predell’s consultants rely on a model based on feedback from hundreds of projects. This model is based on 200 indicators to measure:
The system’s ability to support the company’s strategy (types of flows)
Its relevance and homogeneity, standards, and exchange protocols
The quality of its management
Its physical and logical security level
Its costs (personnel, maintenance, telecoms, energy, etc.)
Its level of risk prevention
For each of these themes, the audit provides a summary of strengths, weaknesses, and potential risks. It also proposes possible scenarios to achieve the pursued objectives, including the improvement of the current system. These scenarios are evaluated in terms of return on investment. Each information system is different, which is why we adapt to your business constraints to offer you the most suitable solutions.
Expression of needs
Once the audit is completed, we move on to the next step: expressing your needs. We work together to create a document that clearly, concisely, and synthetically describes your requests before starting the project. This phase allows you to quickly estimate the feasibility and budget required.
From this phase, Predell plays its advisory role and offers proposals to guide you towards services that meet 100% of your needs. Depending on the problem encountered and the level of objectives to be achieved, we apply approaches adapted to each situation, ranging from a few working meetings to several workshops to guide the decision-makers and future users of the company in formulating their needs.
EDI/Middleware
For the deployment of a community of suppliers in EDI, the needs may concern the scope of coverage, the expectations of the actors, the communication modalities, the needs in terms of monitoring the deployment, etc.
Traceability
For a traceability implementation issue, it may be a question of defining the needs related to compliance with regulations, operational efficiency, tracking of distributed products, etc.
Specifications
State and structure the needs
Identify the stages and stakeholders
Clarify the technical specification
Reference document for external actors
The specifications document is essential for the realization of any EDI/Middleware or Traceability project. The writing of a specifications document is a crucial step in the project’s life cycle, playing an essential role. It is the factual and concrete link that ensures understanding between the project’s stakeholders.
The specifications document is essential for the development and realization of a project. It allows formalizing the expectations and needs of the client (or the project owner) in an exhaustive manner.
EDI / Middleware
The creation of the EDI specifications document is based on taking into account the existing system and, considering the expressed needs, allows for designing a target solution in terms of:
–Exchange flows
–Protocols to use between the company and its different types of exchange partners
–Links with the Information System (ERP or other systems in place)
–Operational processes to adapt or redefine
–Constraints to respect (technical, organizational, human, budgetary, implementation, etc.).
Traceability
For a Traceability solution, the specifications document will cover the following aspects:
–The objectives and challenges of the traceability project
–The inventory of needs to be covered expressed globally
–The project management modalities
–A review of existing traceability
–Constraints to respect
–The different desired components for the Traceability to be implemented.
Implementation
The implementation of the project is the materialization. It is the phase of launching action plans for your project. Predell implements EDI and Traceability exchange systems for its clients in various sectors of activity (Industry, Agriculture, Food Processing, Services, Distribution, Logistics, etc.).
All EDI messages meeting the functional needs of your project can be implemented by Predell (Product Sheet, Order, Delivery Note, Preparation Order, Transport Order, Invoice, Receipt Acknowledgments, etc.). Predell respects international data presentation standards (EDIFACT, XML, X12, etc.) and their sectoral variations, regardless of the ERP in place (SAP, Dynamics, Sage, Cegid, etc.).
In the field of Traceability, Predell adapts its own solutions to your functional needs, practices, and standards in force in your sector.
Predell integrates the technical solutions of its partners (GCI TradeXpress®, TradeXpress® Designer, TradeXpress® Modeler, WebAccess and associated communication modules of GENERIX, Ghibli ® of PRIMEUR) as well as its own solutions (Predell Connect, Predell On Demand, Predell Trace).
Why choose Predell?
We offer a complete service and personalized, competent support.
Predell Expertise
for over 20 years.
Time and resources
savings.
Availability
with extended hours and 24/7 on-call service.
Adaptability
to your platforms and environments.
Support
throughout all the stages of your projects.
Customization
of our services to meet your needs.
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