Designers, manufacturers, lenders, factories, inspectors, distributors and shippers partner for a project, get the clothes out the door and disengage to embark on a new project. Every cycle results in new supply chains. Until now this dynamic making, breaking and remaking of commercial relationships was at odds with e-commerce technology. The best available technology required months of programmers working overtime to connect partners and applications in an automated supply chain. It was too expensive and too time-consuming, so business just took place off line.
Users get infinitely customized views of their supply chains and the processes involved.
With traditional technology, we'd have to take the time, trouble and expense of hard-wiring everyone to everybody else. This is a huge constraint for our competitors, and our Bowstreet-based technology is a strong differentiator for The Thread. Bowstreet, the foundation for the entire supply chain, ultimately lets The Thread create and maintain thousands of customized relationships online. These technologies come together in the Bowstreet Business Web Factory, an XML infrastructure platform for publishing, finding, combining, managing and deploying any and all web services. Web services are discrete XML-based business processes.