Re: Working towards e-commerce

Hi Jenny,

NexgenCommerce, our e-Commerce webfront for BPCS, will connect "out of the 
box" with your BPCS 3.1 version with no problem. You can let your 
customers inquire on: orders, inventory availability, shipment status, and 
account status.  Regarding limiting specific customers to just their own 
information, that is handled automatically through our Registered User 
Database.  We also make use of authority classes and privilege lists which 
are completely configurable so you can give individuals or classes of 
individuals specific access rights.  The product also supports Secure 
Socket Layers (SSL) if you wish to enable an additional level of security. 
 

Our modules include: Order Inquiry, Order Transactions, Internal Order 
Entry, Shop Floor Transactions, Wireless handheld/laptop support 
(real-time), Detached handheld/laptop support (with synchronization), 
eProcurement, and more. 

Please contact me at (630) 300-6067 for more information.

Best regards,
Ruth 

Ruth Clark, CPIM
Account Manager
Nexgen Software Technologies, Inc.
+1 (630) 730-9328 cell
+1 (630) 300-6122 fax
+1 (630) 300-6000 main 
www.nexgeninfo.com

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date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:56:19 -0600
from: "Jenny Carr" <jgcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Working towards e-commerce.

Our organization is in the process of moving towards e-commerce which I 
know can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. 
Ultimately, our goal is to improve communications with our customers.  We 
can crawl into this by running queries/reports on the AS/400 and then 
e-mailing them to customers or posting to a website via ftp.  In the 
latter case, I'm not sure of the best way to limit specific customers to 
seeing  just their orders.  Any suggestions?

In the longer term, we are exploring LANSA's Smartweb for BPCS.  We are on 
the ancient version of 3.1 with Nexgen Y2K mods.  Has anybody out there 
had much experience in using LANSA?  Any comments or suggestions would be 
greatly appreciated.  TIA.

Jenny