Shrinking margins, increasing demand for product innovation, outsourced production and accelerated time to market are just a few of the realities that manufacturers face today.  Success requires faster and more effective collaboration across the supply chain.   Shifts in demand, uncertain economic conditions and demanding regulatory and quality certification requirements also pack a collective wallop.  Manufacturers are reinventing how they develop, market and customize products and how they serve their customers.

Supporting Collaboration across the Supply Chain

For over twenty years, Mobius has defined and led the market for software solutions that integrate and deliver all enterprise content.  ViewDirect enables many of the world's leading manufacturers to gain organizational speed and agility, and strengthen customer relationships.  Consider the following challenges that many of our manufacturing customers have overcome with Mobius solutions:

·       Retain and acquire customers

·       Maintain profitable relationships with trading partners

·       Meet critical time-to-market objectives

·       Optimize, synchronize and accelerate the supply chain

·       Share and integrate enterprise information -inside and outside the firewall-that may be in different formats from multiple, different systems

·       Push trading partner service and self-service to superior levels

·       Satisfy regulatory and quality certification requirements without affecting productivity

Mobius Solutions for Manufacturing

To help companies quickly realize fast ROI and minimize total cost of ownership, Mobius offers several application solutions that solver business problems common to all types of manufacturing companies.  The following solutions are available:

ViewDirect for Vendor Invoice Automation automates and streamlines vendor invoice processing to improve efficiency in accounting departments.  Paper invoices are scanned, indexed and stored in the ViewDirect repository.  Paper handling is eliminated reducing associated costs, time-to-process is reduced and exception handling improved. 

ViewDirect for Payment Exception Management provides accounts receivable departments with the ability to automatically identify short payment exceptions; initiate the required business process, including routing all relevant documents; and integrate with other business applications, including ERP systems.  The application reduces write offs, the time to investigate short payments and fosters healthier customer relationships.

ViewDirect for Customer Self Service gives customers and customer service representatives a single, online interface to current and historical information that will resolve most inquiries and reduce paper-handling and call-center costs. The Mobius solution delivers "one-touch" customer self-service and includes an option for automating issue resolution that will give your organization a powerful competitive advantage.

ABS for Spreadsheet Compliance is an application that reduces the risk of errors and restores confidence in financial reporting by ensuring that spreadsheets are used correctly and managed responsibly. It centralizes and manages the lifecycle of enterprise spreadsheets, including versioning, security and audit trail.