Efficient And Productive- New Websphere e-Commerce Solution Takes It To The Next Level
This year’s User Conference brought big news for e-Business with the announcement of VAI’s S2K 5.0 Enterprise Portal and e-Commerce applications. By making the correct information available to the right people in real-time, this upgrade can streamline business operations, create savings by lowering business costs, increase sales, productivity and efficiencies by leveraging the power of the Web.
The key idea behind VAI’s new portal technology is to provide Web-based features with user specific content applications and tools. The Customer Self Service portal provides a framework for collaboration, application and content delivery. Using the Web, customers can place orders, check account status and purchase history in real-time. In addition, a requisition function is included where specific users are designated as “order approvers” and “order builders.”
On the supplier side, the Supplier Self Service application lets users review receipt history, open orders, purchase analysis and payment status. This feature was designed to streamline operations and reduce calls to purchasing and accounts payable staff. Notably, an Executive Information Center provides executive management with the key performance statistics needed to make well-informed and timely business decisions. A live view of all sales figures, inventory, and financials, is available through the e-Business solution.
“The truly exciting prospect of this totally integrated, competitively priced, enterprise grade, cross platform solution, is that it can make even the smallest distributor look like a Fortune 500 company,” said Todd Endsley, Director, e-Business Solutions. “The features and functions of the new 5.0 e-Business Solution are so easy to manage that users can easily handle Web content without technical expertise.”
As VAI’s customers continue to request enhanced Web applications, VAI will continue to provide them. VAI’s e-Business solutions are based on IBM’s WebSphere Portal framework, the market leader in portal technology. This allows VAI to offer its customers the most advanced and reliable Web-based technology on the market today. In addition, the new 5.0 application is the strategic platform for deploying future Web applications and promises significant advances in the future. |
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