More Than a Shopping Cart: web power from LANSA

Dear Karen,

We can't improve much on Jose Torres' endorsement of 
LANSA's SMARTweb product. Look here for more info 
and access to a live iSeries demo:

http://www.unbeatenpathintl.com/BPCS_and_LANSA.htm

Jose didn't mention a newer option that adds functionality for
huge orders with high line item counts. We call it:

             "Much More Than a Shopping Cart"  (tm)

This feature enables large customers to place long orders
through your web front end (rather than sending a long FAX
that you have to key into BPCS). Here's how it works:

http://www.unbeatenpathintl.com/notashoppingcart.htm

There's a multitude of competitive products --- but --- consider
this: well over 50% of the iSeries that run e-business are powered
by LANSA software. That's a ringing endorsement of LANSA's
longstanding commitment to e-business on iSeries. And, LANSA
does more than customer service web front ends. For example,
the runaway best selling iSeries solution for UCCnet compliance 
is also from LANSA:

http://www.unbeatenpathintl.com/UCCnet-start.htm

Unbeaten Path is the LANSA Solutions Partner for BPCS
users. We polish the ROI on your existing BPCS investment:

http://www.unbeatenpathintl.com/Tarnish_off_BPCS.pdf

Warm regards and God bless,

Milt Habeck
President
Unbeaten Path International

North American toll free:  (888) 874-8008
International voice line:  (262) 681-3151
mhabeck@xxxxxxxxxx
www.unbeatenpathintl.com



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From: Jose Torres
To: bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 4:08 PM
Subject: RE: Web Order Entry

Karen,

We have successfully deployed LANSA SMARTweb product in a production
environment at our subsidiary in Brazil.  It has been operational for over 1
year. We also have a test and development environment in English and
Spanish, which we plan to roll out in the near future in the US and Spanish
Latin America. I'm not a consultant wanting to sell you something, I'm
just a user who has actually done it.  I'll be more than happy to talk to
you about some of our experiences and if you have the time, may put you in
contact with our Web administrator to give you a Webex demo.

A number of things helped in the decision making process:

1. The fact that Lansa has been developing for BPCS for a long, long time.
    This certainly gave me some comfort level as I know the quality code
    they in fact produce.
2. The fact that their product was an "out of the box" solution integrated
    with BPCS.  We actually made some modifications to the code to address
    some company-specific requirements, but most of it was ready to go right
    after the installation.
3. The Lansa suite of products is very powerful which provided a very
    good development environment (with the exception of that
    "development dungle...")
4. They provide very good tech support.

By the way... the LANSA product not only provides for web order entry, but
also customer account status, inventory balances, automatic eMail
notifications to customers with order status, etc., etc.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Jose J. Torres - MS, PMP, CISA



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From: kedwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 11:45 AM
Subject: Web Order Entry

Greetings,

I am investigating various web order entry products for getting our inside
sales and customers the ability to enter orders into BPCS via a browser.
Any recommendations out there?

Also, has any one heard of or is anyone using Hi Volume Order Entry
from SSA / BPCS, Tradepaq Confirm, or a BPCS / SSA web faced order entry?
I'd very much appreciate your input!

Karen Edwards