In today’s supply chain applications information flow among primary industries and suppliers are executed by means of electronic portals. The manufacturer runs its planning operations on a daily basis and daily prepares supplier orders for future weeks and months. Some of these orders may be confirmed orders while others may be planned. The manufacturer uploads this plan to the portal on a daily basis.

Suppliers are urged to use these portals in order to be able to operate the shipments as required by the primary industry, electronically retrieve the published plans to their own system and arrange their own plans in the same way. Suppliers engage this plan they retrieve from the portal in their own planning processes and determine their own production plan and purchase requirements.

Suppliers, if desired, can publish this plan to their next tier suppliers via the portal and thereby communicate the orders down to the lowest level of the supply chain by means of portals.

As for the technological level achieved today, the Supplier/Manufacturer portal of the Netsis series provides electronic and integrated transfer opportunities in numerous functions like retrieving the published orders, communicating feedback information in the planning, production and shipping phases and to collection operations.