The S2K Enterprise Workflow Alerts feature provides timely, automated support and information via e-mail. Send e-mail alerts based upon thirty-six pre-defined triggering events. Notify multiple users of the same event and enter specific tolerance levels. Internal flags have been incorporated aiding in maintaining email frequencies.

Alerts are designed to function within their pre-assigned modules. Workflow Alerts can aid in achieving proper customer satisfaction, managing credit flows, effectively tracking inventory and managing cost. These are just some of the benefits derived from using the Workflow Alerts.

Customer Orders - Tracking sales history helps maintain an accurate database and provides you with the information that is required to establish the proper sales support relationship. The S2K Enterprise Workflow Alerts provide the user with numerous tools that prove necessary in achieving proper customer satisfaction.

Manufacturing - Maintaining a successful manufacturing operation relies on the timely communication between management and production. The S2K Enterprise Workflow Alerts provide the communication links necessary for manufacturing order tracking.

Accounts Receivable - Maintaining a current profile on your company’s cash flow has become more and more apparent due to rapid fluctuations in today’s economy. S2K Enterprise Workflow Alerts provide the critical support required for the successful management of your credit department.

Purchasing - Managing costs and schedules represent a major portion in the success and profitability of a business. The S2K Enterprise Workflow Alerts provide the purchasing team with the tools necessary to achieve these goals.

Product Quality - Maintaining product quality is a key to customer satisfaction. The S2K Enterprise Workflow Alerts provide the exposure needed to ensure product quality.

Inventory Management - Maintaining effective inventory stock levels provides the customer with the timely completion of orders and minimizes unnecessary carrying cost. The S2K Enterprise Workflow Alerts provide the critical support needed for replenishing stock.

Enterprise Job Scheduler - The S2K Enterprise Job Scheduler provides users with the ability to process reports and other events at specified times and intervals throughout the course of their business cycles.

Through the use of a never-ending program, the system administrator can schedule jobs to process daily, weekly, or monthly at specified times and days. Entering various parameters enables jobs to be scheduled to run repeatedly during the day and prior, or after, the end-of-day and consolidated end-of-month processing.

Most S2K Enterprise modules and applications make use of the Job Scheduler functionality, giving users a wide range of scheduling options.

More and more industries are turning to S2K Enterprise Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) to answer their needs for increased profitability and enhanced efficiencies through the use of technology.

S2K Enterprise provides interfacing capabilities with several translator software packages. Value-Added Networks (VAN), offer businesses inbound and outbound mapping capabilities, forward/storage systems for trading partners transmission and fast response, and provide error-free efficient handling of accounting transactions. This, in addition to compliance with the standards developed by the Accredited Standards Committee and American National Standards Institute enables companies to realize many benefits, including:

• Improved business relationships
• Real-time management reporting
• Improved inventory management
• Reduced costs
• Improved accuracy
• Reduction in paper storage and processing
• Increased productivity

What is Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)?

EDI is an acronym for Electronic Data Interchange. It is a paperless trade exchange that allows common business forms such as invoices, (transaction sets) and purchase orders to be transferred using electronic file standards. With EDI, computer-to-computer communications through VANs or Value-Added Networks, replaces mailing and faxing. A combination of these two events briefly describes what EDI is about.

EDI Standards
While there are many EDI standards, the two most popular are ANSI-X12 and EDIFACT.

ANSI-X12 is a standard developed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to define EDI business documents. It is a wide-spread standard supporting wholesale and retail distribution-type businesses. Each of these standards may have several hundred transaction sets (such as invoices, advance ship notices, and purchase orders) to support many different industries. Each company that chooses to do EDI decides on how they wish to implement the particular transaction set by creating what is known as an implementation guide for each transaction set.

EDIFACT is a European standard and is also being considered by the Canadian government.

VAN (Value-Added Network)
A VAN is an independent company that provides a forward/storage system (mailbox), for EDI transmissions between trading partners.

Translation Software
Software that translates the Electronic Data Interchange document from an EDI standard to a file defined in the end-user's application system, so that it can be read or used by application software easily.

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