EzCommerce

Enabling the Extended Enterprise

EzCommerce® Suite from Answerthink allows you to maximize the return on your investment in existing enterprise software systems. It enables you to strengthen relationships with customers and suppliers, gain visibility across the enterprise and optimize the profit potential of your business process value chains.

EzCommerce® Suite connects seamlessly to your existing enterprise software systems and consists of individually deployable Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) based business application components. EzCommerce components encapsulate various business processes and transactions that your enterprise needs for:

• sales order management
• direct material procurement
• supplier management.

These components enable you to vastly simplify and accelerate the creation of enterprise applications, resulting in efficient and cost-effective deployment of your systems.

The results? Reduced costs, increased operational efficiency, enhanced visibility across business processes, higher productivity and reduced cycle times. EzCommerce® Suite can be rolled out in as little as 30 days and includes the following core solutions:

EzCustomer Interaction Solution

The EzCustomer Interaction Solution securely opens your back-end business processes to your customers, partners and your sales force. Customers can place orders and check up- to-date inventory information. Robust B2B capabilities can even integrate your systems with your customer's procurement applications for real-time sales order creation. Your business partners have secure, reliable and personalized access to catalogs, order status and information, ATP, and of course, the ability to place orders online. Business-partner specific pricing is provided during order entry by integrating with the enterprise's back-end application.

EzSupplier Interaction Solution

The EzSupplier Interaction Solution enables you to integrate your organization with your suppliers around the world, creating virtual shop floors for you without compromising your system security or integrity. The solution provides strategic suppliers with Material Resource Planning (MRP) data needed for direct material procurement so they can proactively plan their production capacity. The purchase order generated through enterprise planning systems is sent to a strategic supplier's order processing systems to create a real-time sales order. Your suppliers can view details of their purchase order and payment status on a 24 x 7 basis, and EzSupplier provides negotiation mechanisms for buyers and strategic suppliers to finalize purchases.

See EzCommerce® Suite for Yourself

The power of EzCommerce® Suite is most apparent when you see the solutions demonstrated live. Contact us about EzCommerce® Suite and we'll show you how it can help you build an extended enterprise for competitive advantage.