Overview
RockBlocks is an easy-to-use, highly integrated software platform that interconnects islands of product, delivery, pricing and competitive information across a collaborative network including your company, suppliers, agents, shippers and stakeholders.

RockBlocks acts as a real time decision making tool, delivering the right product, at the right time, the right location, and the right price - every time. By employing pre-emptive management, user-defined alerts, and advanced queries, Rockblocks provides deep pipeline visibility and leverages the concept of "exception management". This means that little problems are solved before they become big ones, products hit the shelves at the estimated prices and margins, and multiple business challenges are avoided altogether.

Philosophy
RockBlocks provides a platform on which businesses operate highly-efficient and low-cost, sourcing, quote management, order management, financial transaction, shipment tracking and logistics operations associated with a wide range of commercial and consumer-product businesses.

RockBlocks speeds design-to-delivery times, accelerates inventory turns and delivers improved financial performance from sourcing operations. Through this innovative platform, companies collaborate with designers, vendors, aggregators, customs agents, and enterprise functions like merchandising, inventory management, sourcing, purchasing, finance, and logistics, to optimize the manner in which business is conducted, and to infuse responsiveness and drive cost out of the supply chain

Within RockBlocks, you can:

• Request quotes for items you intend to sell
• Attach specifications, drawings, pictures and descriptions to any transaction, file or other document
• Simplify multiple business processes by transforming them into automated methods and procedures
• Examine detailed costing, customs, currency-exchange, freight, raw materials and sourcing issues
• Approve quotes and place approved items on an available-to-buy list
• Manage Landed Costs
• Qualify vendors and track performance
• Pull approved items onto Purchase Orders
• Pull Purchase Orders onto Master Contracts
• Manage the staged delivery of goods from multiple POs, contracts, & vendors, and through multiple ports
• Issue Letters of Credit and manage other financial instruments including international wire transfers
• Accommodate any workflow, including unique company or situation-specific workflows
• Track/trace shipments, including split shipments, through any range of transportation modes and partners
• Work with legacy systems to modernize the completion of company processes in a modern, configurable, and flexible, web-based software environment