E-Commerce - Seradex ERP Solutions

Your company may be ready for e-commerce - but are your solutions ready? Manufacturing is facing rapid changes and tough challenges. As a result, solutions, practices, technologies and business processes unthought of a few years ago - such as Business to Business integration, Web-based collaboration and e-marketplaces are becoming commonplace.

Historically only large organizations could justify EDI and smaller suppliers were forced to comply in order keep their large customers. Advances in Internet technology have now lower the costs to the point that any organization can justify an e-commerce solution. The term e-commerce was coined in the late 1990s to describe the concept of conducting business electronically over the Internet, but it is not a new idea. Major American and foreign corporations have been doing business effectively over a wire for decades.

Seradex provides solutions that allow the coexistence of EDI and Internet-based B2B. Our solutions ensure that new systems remain backwards compatible with old systems, while driving down costs, increasing flexibility, and minimizing custom programming.

To offer a complete e-commerce solution Seradex offers the following components:

EDI-to-XML translator to interface to existing EDI applications
EDIINT protocol manager to adapt to the latest internet based EDI standards
Quickly implement an ecommerce Shopping Cart that is fully integrated to the Seradex ERP Order Entry System
The Seradex Product Configurator is fully web enabled so your customers can enter orders over the internet
XML Manager to integrate to your customers utilizing XML instead of EDI

The bottom line is that Seradex can facilitate whatever mix of ecommerce you need to implement. Seradex is backwards and forwards compatible with all common standards. As each solution is driven by your customers a mix of technologies may be required. Most ERP systems would require large up-front investments in complex integration and B2B software to achieve this. Hundreds of manufacturing companies already benefit from our experience in creating solutions that:

Reduce or eliminate most custom integration code
Lower maintenance and implementation costs
Require fewer skills and less training
Interoperate with more platforms, integration middleware, and industry standards than anyone in the industry
Scale to support high transaction volumes with minimal additional hardware or software

E-Commerce offers companies tremendous opportunities for improving profits - improvements that have been achieved are:

Fulfillment Cycle Time - 30% - 50% Reduction
Inventory - 20% - 60% Reduction
Product Costs - 20% Reduction
Productivity - 10% Improvement

Besides the excellent functionality in the software there are many organizational skills that also need to be developed. These include supplier negotiation, business process design, end user training and often overcoming resistance to change. Seradex has proven implementation services to help you deal with these issues.

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