Re: E-Commerce

Dan,

We are not yet live on 3.5.0, but are planning to do so in the next 45
days.  We already have a team of individuals exploring this same
functionality and have currently contracted out to a Denver firm to form a
preliminary idea (specification) on how to go about doing this.  I have yet
to see the results of the research, but it should prove interesting.

We too are exploring using the JBA System/21 EDI interface to receive these
orders into JBA.  I would be interested in speaking to you sometime soon on
this topic and sharing experiences.

Thanks!

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Jim Sehi
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
Hach Company
5600 Lindbergh Drive
Loveland, Colorado  80538

Email:  jsehi@hach.com
Phone:  970-663-1377  x2538
Fax:    970-669-2932
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At 12:24 PM 3/12/99 -0500, you wrote:
>       We are interested in giving existing customers the ability to order
>products and check on order / shipment status via the Internet.  I would
>expect our volume to initially be about 25 new orders per day and 50 order
>inquiries (this is a small percent of our total volume).  I have a feeling
>many of our customers will prefer to place their order via the telephone but
>would use the system for order inquiries.
>
>       We are running JBA V3.5.0 on our AS/400 620 V4R2 along with multiple
>NT servers on our LAN / WAN.   We also have a AS/400 150 V4R2 which is
>currently not being used.   Our network is already connected to the Internet
>with a firewall.
>
>       I don't consider any of the JBA screens to be user friendly enough
>for the casual user, nor would they have any logic for restricting customers
>to only seeing information pertaining to them, so I don't think 5250
>emulation or GUI'd/Java screen scraper version of existing screens would be
>of much value.  For order entry, I would envision using a separate Internet
>Order Entry application that we would feed into our system as if it had been
>received as an ANSI X.12 850 Purchase Order (phase 1) and phase 2 load the
>orders online with immediate inventory allocation, credit checking, etc.
>Ability to handle credit cards would be a real plus.  Obviously this
>application would have to receive downloaded items/prices from our JBA
>system.   For order / shipment status inquiries I would prefer to have an
>application developed that would access our JBA files online.  An option
>would be to download this information on some schedule to another
>application/server if there was a good package available already for order
>status inquiries.
>
>       We are in the exploratory stage.  We don't have much inhouse
>expertise with E-Commerce and I'm considering hiring someone to handle that
>for us.
>
>       Any suggestions for tools and packages to help us attain our goals?
>TIA.
>
>Dan Thomas
>Sr. VP Information Systems
>Medical Distribution, Inc.
>4500 Progress Blvd
>Louisville, KY  40218-5058
>Phone (502) 454-9013 ext 120
>email  DThomas@lpw-mdi.com
>
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Jim Sehi
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
Hach Company
5600 Lindbergh Drive
Loveland, Colorado  80538

Email:  jsehi@hach.com
Phone:  970-663-1377  x2538
Fax:    970-669-2932
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