IT4 Profit is a comprehensive
enterprise-class B2B trading floor, an electronic marketplace that provides companies
with integrated direct links to their major customers and suppliers, taking
their
businesses into the Internet space, automating their supply chains and supporting
the move towards full applications integration.
IT4profit aimed at bringing value down the channel to
distributors, integrators and resellers.
This solution it allows companies to offer their business partners the
ability to exchange information and conduct transactions across the Internet
securely, reliably, and in real time in a single unified architecture.
The IT4profit solution is a set of software applications and supporting
methodology that meets all the requirements for building comprehensive on-line
business communities on the IT4profit platform.
IT4profit Front End:
IT4profit Back End:
- System builder (configurator);
- CRM System;
- Assembling;
- Reporting;
- Balance score system;
- Accounting system;
- Connectors to accounting system;
- Dealing;
- Promotion mail system;
- NLS (national language system);
- Multicurrency price management;
- Specific country setting;
- Warranty System;
- Document Layout;
- Site Management.
Trading mechanisms
IT4 Profit platform incorporates multiple trading mechanisms allowing the
companies to bring their customers orders on-line, exchange relevant
order-processing information over Internet and do everything from posting and
fulfillment of orders on-line, to shipment tracking and providing the accounting
across enterprise back-end applications. The authorized members of the IT4
Profit system can use the following trading solutions:
Catalog selling
Catalog selling through the IT4 Profit electronic catalog is a mechanism that
allows to define and organize rich detailed content about all products and
services offered at the exchange. It also enables companies to acquire dynamic
product information, allows to manage shopping lists and distribute product
information to multiple business channels.
On-line purchasing
On-line purchasing and order fulfillment organizes and optimizes buyers
purchasing activity. It allows building, posting, managing orders and monitoring
order status throughout the logistics process in the supply chain. The
Purchasing module sets up and performs freight links between the trading
participants at the Exchange, determines freight sales prices and actual freight
costs. The purchasing module allows to experience excellent shopping practice,
which includes order terms negotiation, sophisticated order tracking facility,
access to sellers’ catalog resources in an instance, and generation of shopping
carts and sales lists. The rest of the capabilities allowing the buyer to
purchase on-line are the following:
- On-line posting of orders and getting
acknowledgements;
- Order status tracking and order change tracking;
- Interactive change capability of order status;
- Credit line control;
- Pull price distribution technique;
- Currency everyday rates support;
- Support for on-line, offline and RosettaNet data
communication formats;
- Link to finance systems;
- Shared view of purchase orders;
- Alerts and messaging capabilities to prioritize
purchase orders and shipment flow;
- Handling RMAs from customers.
Sales order fulfillment
The Sales Process module organizes and optimizes sellers
activity on sales orders processing. This module is organized into on-line,
browsable, step-by-step configuration process. It enables easy order
acknowledging, managing, tracking and fulfillment, handling all of the logistics
of delivery, shipping and handling products direct to customers or business
partners in a secure and personalized environment on-line. The basic module
components are the following:
- Web-order management;
- Order tracking facility;
- Credit control;
- Price management;
- Real-time supply/demand management and inventory
updating;
- Series/batch input and control on sales transactions;
- On-line logistics and warehousing solutions;
- Connection to enterprise back-end applications.
e-Dealing
e-Dealing software is a built-in electronic commerce value-added service,
designed to enhance business processes by bringing global B2B buyers and sellers
together to make profitable deals on-line, all from one location. It provides
channels for companies for efficient managing and monitoring electronic deals in
an Open-bid auction format within the trading community, one or multiple
business groups.
e-Dealing is a reliably functioning bidding mechanism that ensures the
pursuance of objectives stemming from the essence of internal business processes
on and outside IT4profit. It supports critical decision-making in marketing
areas to bolster sales through sales measurements, to provide more meaningful
decisions in procurement and purchasing, and what is most expected from it, to
become a comprehensive tool to increase an outcome of any business organization
bidding on-line. By definition it is totally integrated into the business supply
chain of the IT4profit platform striving to intelligently balance the bidders’
demand and supply.
Benefits of IT4 Profit
“We cooperate with IT4profit from 2001 and results of online trading
and supply management solutions implementation exceeds our expectations. Now
we process more then 70% of transactions online and serve more then 12500
customers in 70 countries in 24x7x365 mode. Due to implementation of IT4profit
solutions ASBIS significantly decreases operational costs, time of order
processing and stocks. This year ASBIS will achieve record-braking turnover -
$900 mln."
Sergey Kostevich, President and CEO of
ASBIS
IT4 Profit supports multiple on-line sales and quotation methods for a single
organization. As a result, companies are able to avail a sophisticated
functionality within a diverse range of supported types of deals to their
particular interests, as each brings complete functionality. Both seller-driven
and buyer-driven deals with upward or downward price negotiation can be
organized. Although there are no any significant differences in the way the
deals are organized and completed, a single organization can establish preferred
sales procedures for specific opportunities and organizations through the
e-Dealing module. A company can have one sales method for its direct customers
and another for the sales force of its affiliate companies.
Get more information
B2B Exchange model (.EXE 846KB)
>>
Reviving the B2B exchange
model. CIO Agenda 2003 (.PDF 700KB) >>
How to Join B2B Exchange Or Create Own Trading Community
Please contact us:
Worldwide
IT4profit Headquarters
10 Beaver Way,
Reading, RG5 4UD, UK
Phone: + 44 1189 699 514
e-mail: [email protected]
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