Track External Inventory
Your ability to meet order deadlines relies on getting the right inventory to the right partner, at the right time. Nulogy Supplier Collaboration gives you a real-time view of on-hand and in-transit materials across your entire external network, in one place.
What Is External Inventory Visibility?
External inventory visibility is knowing what is actually on hand or in transit at a co-packer, contract manufacturer, or contract supplier right now, not what a spreadsheet said last week. According to Gartner research, only 8% of supply chain leaders say they have a clear, data-driven picture of both their internal and external supply chain, and materials sitting outside your own four walls are often the greatest blind spot.
Closing that gap does not mean asking every partner to adopt a new system. It means connecting to the inventory data they already keep, so on-hand and in-transit material status updates automatically instead of waiting on the next phone call.
Ways to Track External Inventory
See What's On Hand at Every Partner, Right Now
View real-time on-hand inventory across every co-packer and contract manufacturer in one dashboard, instead of waiting on a status call to find out.
Catch In-Transit Delays Before They Impact Deadlines
See where materials headed to a partner actually are, so a late shipment shows up as a warning, not as a stalled run.
Minimize excess inventory costs
When the count you see is the count that is really there, you stop carrying safety stock you did not need just in case the last update was wrong.
Reconcile Inventory Without Chasing Spreadsheets
Consolidate inventory counts from every partner into one number your team can trust, instead of reconciling separate spreadsheets by hand.
How Nulogy Supplier Collaboration Tracks External Inventory
Supplier Collaboration connects directly to the inventory and materials data your co-packers, contract manufacturers, and contract suppliers already track, and consolidates it into a single real-time view. Instead of calling each partner for a count, your team sees on-hand and in-transit material status for the entire network in one place.
One Number Everyone Can Trust
“Through Nulogy, enabling greater materials data visibility and consolidation between ourselves and our major customer has simplified complex materials management processes, which together lets us get on the same page faster,” says Nick Pai, Master Planner, Crescent Park Corporation.
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"Nulogy is a great connector of suppliers to L'Oréal. We're able to build and collaborate with [Nulogy] and then spread that expertise and value down to our supplier base so that it's making our conversations, our work, and our transformation that much easier."