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SciQuest.com's B2B E-MarketplaceThe Technology Contd...Explaining the problem, Anthony Francis, VP of global operations at SciQuest said, "Our buyers fill their shopping carts with multiple line items and you have to manage each one of them and know their individual status, whether it's on back order or consolidated into one shipment. This needs a very robust order management platform, especially when you consider we have no warehouses but have to connect to our suppliers' warehouses." To solve this problem, SciQuest entered into an agreement with Yantra14 in November 1999, to take advantage of its operations fulfillment solution, PureEcommerce.
Customer data was brought forward to the front-end of the business, allowing the consumers to modify and track their orders, print return labels and the like. Now, when SciQuest's customers filled their shopping cart in the e-marketplace, the orders were routed by PureEcommerce, directly to the concerned supplier. PureEcommerce integrated thousands of suppliers (small, medium and large suppliers), with SciQuest's marketplace and supported thousands of transactions per day. SciQuest introduced a training program to help its customer service representatives learn how to use PureEcommerce. Francis said, "For us, the whole PureEcommerce system acts like a pivot in the middle of our operation. We no longer touch an order from the time it comes off our web site as a submitted order until it has passed the various suppliers and is in their hands, via XML, EDI or OrderFax."
14] Yantra is a Boston based e-business applications developer. |
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