E-business success demands much more than simply moving transactions to the Internet. Because of trading exchanges, many products and services run the risk of becoming commodities and, therefore, companies must leverage trading exchanges or host exchanges of their owm.
Traditional supply chains are evolving into complex value networks that are in constant transition. Make-to-order products require online collaboration among existing and new trading partners. To thrive, manufacturing companies need smart e-business applications that will efficiently and cost-effectively handle all these new demands.
Using A Clean-sheet Internet-based design, QAD eQ is built to handle direct material ordering for both sell-side and buy-side, plus the replenishment order process. The relationship management application supports intelligent unattended B2B transactions that dramatically reduce costs. Browser-based clients and web-server hosts provide a flexible environment that allows you to quickly adapt to new e-business challenges as they arise.
QAD eQ allows you to leverage existing investments in hardware and software, provides real-time integration with enterprise applications, bridges the disparate systems of multiple trading partners and scales to handle large volumes of transactions.
Benefits of QAD eQ include cost reduction by leveraging trading partner relationships through unattended B2B transactions, access to new sales and procurement channels through the Internet and the ability to create your own private exchange and access market maker exchanges. By using trading exchanges better prices can be secured for your direct resources and, indirect items, market shifts can be quickly adapted to, new opportunities capitilised on and your B2b e-commerce solution can be connected to your back-end enterprise system.
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