Written on 11 November 2020
Using APIs to enhance your supply chain
More and more of our business processes rely on SAAS (software as a service) to facilitate an integrated supply chain. You will have noticed that many of these service suppliers have offered you an API (Application Programming Interface) to connect your internal services to theirs.
These often free services, can really make a difference to the internal productivity of a business because they can streamline your links to your logistics supplier, you accounts, government services, website results, email marketing etc. etc
The blockage to making use of these free services is mostly the in house skills needed to tie everything together (we can help), and that the API data exchange will probably require the supply of certain data in the correct format - and that might need to be created (we can help with that too).
If you are currently managing these relationships by re-keying data or passing spreadsheets back and forth then it is worth asking the question – do you have an API? Either of these manual processes are not only inefficient, but frequently downright dangerous because of the human error that inevitably arises from keying in data and studies have shown that over 60% of spreadsheets are ‘wrong’ and if there is more than one person entering the data into a spreadsheet, that error rate goes up to 80% ( Google it!).
If you are interested in how this works please feel free to give me a call. Steve 01424 423827
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