Everyday more and more companies use the Word Wide Web to do business. This channel creates a frictionless economy, where trade is streamlined for the benefit of all facets in the supply chain. Participating in the vast online community's opportunities allows eBusinesses to forge their place in the new frontier. And this is not just for using Web to Sell Online, but also taking advantage of Web to streamline your purchasing cycle and reduce the cost and steps involved in your Organizations Purchases.
To this effect, Silvertide Software, Inc. has built entityPO, a 100% browser based Product. With entityPO, business organizations have an easy-to-use and easy to configure solution that is secure and cost effective for automating business purchases (Procurement).
entityPO is built to streamline the purchasing needs of one to many buying Organizations using a common or independent Product catalogs. entityPO lets you to configure the Procurement approval workflow and Procurement rules. You can also define the documents such as RFQ, PO that forms part of your custom purchasing process.
entityPO also brings in Vendors as an integral part of your purchasing process thus enabling real time decisions and reducing the purchasing time cycle. And also the ruled based Quotation Processing module helps you to define the criteria such as Price, quality etc. that is important while choosing the Vendors.
entityPO enables Procurement Automation and streamlines the process by encompassing the Buying Organization, Buyers, Decisions makers, Vendors and the whole purchasing cycle from PR, RFQ to GR.
The solution is robust and scalable across various operating systems and platforms for simplified implementation. entityPO is built around the latest and best of technologies, such as JSP, Java Servlets and Beans.
Features
Unlimited
Buying Organization. Create parent and Child Organizations.
Common or independent product catalog across multiple
BOs.
Configure Workflow and Procurement rules at Parent
or even independently for Child Organizations.
Define and customize your Purchasing documents such
as PR, RFQ, PO, GR etc.
Graphical display of your Workflow rules and documents.
Rule based RFQ distribution makes RFQs available only
to qualified Vendors.
Vendors are integral part of the process. Vendors can receive RFQ
and submit Quotes online using entityPO.
Ruled based Quotation Processing module to define the
criteria such as Price, quality etc. to shortlist Vendors.
Online PO releases.
Flexible partial POs fulfillment by Vendors.
GR document can be linked with Stores and QA.
100s of predefined Reports. Also create your own reports
on the fly.
Architecture
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firstEntity (eProcurement) is built using popular and industry standard technologies. The visualization Layer is built using JSP, and the Business Abstraction Layer uses Java Servlets & Beans. The Data Layer is supported by Oracle or SQL Server. It is hosted on the industry leading application server WebSphere from IBM. and on Solaris / AIX / NT / HP / SUN OS.
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| This architecture brings in
the following benefits: |
| Robust |
Can handle high volume transactions. |
| Scalable |
1 to unlimited Users. |
| Modular |
Add advanced features as you grow. |
| Open |
easy integration with your enterprise applications. |
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