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Database driven Business to Business web sites can be designed to drive up business revenue, and connect you to your business partners. Instant communication leads to happy clients and reduces costs. Do you have clients that call to check on the status of an order, check the status of a shipment, or check availability of a product or order? If you get any kind of distributor inquiry, placing this information on your web site will remove all communication obstacles, and reduce your administrative costs.
A Business to Business database driven web site puts your business partners in touch with the information that they need instantly, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Your business to business partners can place and track their orders with your company over the Internet. Electronic transactions between businesses provide extremely efficient benefits to each party involved. Access to the database driven web site can be password protected. Costs are reduced due to the automated nature of the transaction. Deliveries are more timely because orders are registered immediately. Errors are substantially reduced because data is no longer entered multiple times. By offering this capability, your company can establish long lasting business to business relationships. Your suppliers are pleased because you can reduce their costs (which may result in lower prices to you, as well), and your customers are pleased because you are more accessible and responsive. You can make your business to business web site user friendly and personalized to the needs of your visitors. Your business partners are more likely to return to your web site frequently when it as been customized for their use. Here are some ways that a Business to Business web site could be utilized: Order Entry, Status Tracking, Shipment Notification: You can set up a database that can allow your business distributors to enter their own orders via a web browser. Orders are saved in the database and retrieved by you for use in production. Your distributors would then receive a confirmation e-mail that summarizes their order and indicates an order number. When the distributor revisits the web site, they can check the status of the order by entering in their order number. There is no need to call your office to get this information. Also, business to business partners can check the status even when your office isn't open. Once their order is shipped, you can update the database with the shipment tracking information. When the distributor checks on the order status, it will provide them with the tracking number, and can even redirect them to the delivery company's web site for in-transit information. By giving access to your business to business clients and potential clients the order and inventory status, you can increase their satisfaction by keeping them informed. They see you as a business to business solution that responds to their needs, all day, every day. Collaboration Management: Let's say that you have an on-going project with partners from other companies. Perhaps the participants are in different states. Such a project requires constant communication between each of the members of the team. Phone Tag is not the solution! Why not use a database to manage the progress and status of the project? By integrating it with the Internet, everyone in the team will have the most recent information. Project members can enter in their task updates using a web browser. The database can then match the information to project milestones and provide a comparison to planned completion dates. Other participants can be automatically notified via e-mail when tasks are updated, based on their relation to the task. You can even have participants send related documents with their updates to be distributed to other appropriate recipients. Since all this information is being recorded as the project continues, it becomes a valuable resource for use in planning the course for the next collaborative project. Allow us to bid on your database project. Click here for a bid submission page. |
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