What is a Supply Pipeline Engine?
TradeMerit’s Supply Pipeline Engine is a technology that graphically represents a unique set of supply chain processes by defining: • Partners involved, which could be suppliers, customers, logistics providers, custom agents… • The physical goods that are being traded between Partners. • Geographic Locations which include not just the origin and destination pair but all dwelling points where the goods will be flowing through. These three elements are then linked through the Tasks and Management Rules that are needed in order to complete the requirements of the process and create the Supply Pipeline. With the supply pipeline there exists the actors, resources and rules needed to define a unique process that will bring product P from Supplier A to Customer B. In order to build the engine, we need to define the communication channels between the actors and then all transactions in that Pipeline can be followed.
