DDN Selects Axway Trade Activity Manager Powered by Synchrony™

DDN Provides Pharmaceutical Companies Insight into Inventory and Distribution Agreements Aiding Sales Growth

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., and MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis., February 24, 2009 – DDN has selected Axway Trade Activity Manager (TAM) powered by Synchrony™ to improve service levels and collaboration with its customers, helping them drive additional sales through optimized inventory levels and efficiently manage distribution agreements.  DDN chose Axway TAM to help its life science customers improve visibility in the supply chain, understand demand cycles and provide insight into cost of returns. 

“Our clients must manage millions of dollars of pharmaceuticals as they make their way along the supply chain while complying with difficult regulations.  They rely on us to give them complete transparency into the movement of pharmaceuticals so they can make decisions about inventory levels and distribution agreements more quickly and accurately,” said Michael Bartholomew, vice president, sales & marketing, DDN.  “Using Axway TAM allows us to extend the breadth of our offerings to our clients, providing the best possible service that helps them better manage complex trade operations.”   

By monitoring true demand across distribution networks, Axway TAM helps trade managers to:

• Have more visibility into the supply chain—Axway TAM optimizes service levels and inventories, while minimizing returns and demand variability, resulting in a more efficient supply chain.
• Understand demand forecast better—Companies have full insight into pharmaceutical manufacturing cycles, allowing them to predict future cycles and understand what the manufacturers’ needs are, based on past demands.
• See clearly into the cost of returns—With Axway TAM, companies have complete transparency into the pharmaceutical return process, allowing them to stop a profit leak on returned drugs that have increased in value but were originally sold for less.
• Capture 850, 852 and 867 data—Axway TAM collects pertinent information in real-time such as shipping orders, rates and timeframe, as it goes from point of manufacture through to the retailers.

With Axway TAM, CFOs, trade managers and pharmaceutical vice presidents can efficiently monitor proactive compliance and performance on-demand rather than reactively.  In addition, Axway TAM produces a report that gives direct access to scorecards and supporting details in addition to, or in lieu of, EDI data exchanges.

“As a leading provider of outsourced services to the life science industry, DDN helps its customers tackle the competitive pressure to increase fill rates, and maximize days on hand, to service all available revenue opportunities,” said Kim Loughead, director, healthcare solutions, Axway.  “With Axway TAM, DDN provides its customers with the ability to get timely, complete and accurate information. This is critical to a manufacturers’ ability to drive additional sales through optimized inventory levels and efficiently managed distribution agreements, giving them full insight into their inventory and visibility into the supply chain.” 

Axway TAM leverages Axway’s Synchrony framework, which provides the communications, integration and management foundation to address collaboration inside and outside the enterprise.  The solution delivers insight into the supply chain and operations, allowing pharmaceutical companies to improve inventory management and enhance sales capabilities. 

For additional information on Axway Trade Activity Manager (TAM), please visit: http://www.axway.com/tam

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About DDN
Headquartered in Menomonee Falls, Wis., with distribution facilities in Memphis, Tenn. and Ontario, Calif., DDN is the largest privately held provider of outsourced services to the life science industry. With  decades of experience in every sector, and a long track record of unparalleled client satisfaction, DDN works with emerging companies seeking to launch quickly and remain as ‘virtual’ as possible, and with market leaders looking to streamline and simplify. DDN provides clients with superior operations without spending the time and money to develop and manage them, freeing up resources for R&D, acquisitions, and other core initiatives. DDN is independent and supply-chain neutral, answering only to the needs of its clients. Find out more by visiting www.ddnnet.com.

About Axway

Axway recently merged with Tumbleweed Communications to become the leading global provider of multi-enterprise solutions and infrastructure, serving over 11,000 organizations in more than 100 countries.  Axway speeds and secures business interactions – both inside and outside the enterprise – by optimizing the way information is moved, managed and protected.  Powered by Synchrony™, a multi-enterprise service-oriented framework, Axway’s customers can “start anywhere, use anything” to complement their existing infrastructures.  Axway’s comprehensive offering includes: business-to-business integration, managed file transfer, secure email, business activity monitoring, enterprise application integration, service-oriented architecture, business process management, track & trace and identity validation solutions.  Axway provides professional and managed services, as well as cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings.  Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Axway’s global presence spans 20 countries.

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