Manufacturing & Distribution Solutions

ECCNET & UCCNET Quick Start Program for Suppliers 

SoftCare recognizes that for many suppliers, the complexity involved in the implementation of ECCnet and UCCNET is a very daunting task with ultimately little or no benefit to them.

With that in mind, SoftCare has created its ECC/UCCNET net Quick Start Program, which is a comprehensive program for small to mid-sized suppliers to implement ECCNET & UCCNET net. The final solution provides a central product catalogue for the aggregation of enterprise item information behind your firewall.

It provides for better control of product information, enhances the ability to publish information both internally throughout the enterprise as well as externally to ECCnet and the UCCnet Item Registry and Synchronization Services and the various data pools worldwide

The Quick Start Program provides the services, training and software required to implement ECCNET & UCCNET net quickly and efficiently.  The SoftCare Solution’s Group provides necessary consulting services to determine: 

• Where the required item information resides
• What information is relevant to implement ECCnet and UCCNET for a company’s products
• How the information will be extracted, consolidated and maintained 

Once the “roadmap” of how the information will be gathered, the next step is to extract the data into the OpenEC® Trade Catalog, The Solutions group will work with your IT professionals to extract and “massage” the data to meet the appropriate  standard. Once extracted, the information is then loaded to ECCNET and UCCNET.  Once the item information is resident on the OpenEC® Trade Catalog, it can be used to create an online web-presence which would allow a company to:

• Significantly reduce customer service costs by publishing up-to-date product pricing and availability online
• Improve customer service by providing 24 X 7 online access to critical business information
• Improve immediacy of information by allowing real time up-to-date information to be shown to the customer
• Provide integration with back office systems (e.g. stock levels, expediting, accounting, etc.) using the OpenEC® Trade Catalog APIs
• Reduce data entry cost as all information is passed in electronically from the customer

Once implemented, the OpenEC® Trade Catalog is quickly configurable to provide an online web presence which would provide:

• A facility to have variable pricing & terms by trading partner
• Electronic ordering & payment using a "Shopping Cart" or a true Business-to-Business model
• Online multi-media presentation of a company's product
• Enablement of Promotions Management by providing a range of functions to facilitate managing promotions which allow products to be "advertised" using time-dated or user specific promotions
• A company's business information to be available to its trusted partners via the web
• Suppliers or geographically diverse employees the ability to maintain and update catalogues electronically or to have the update and maintenance of the catalogue controlled centrally
• The ability to create product comparison tables which compares product features and price

The ability to maintain and publish valuable information for each distributor/store including distributor/store name, description, toll free phone number, phone number, fax, address, email address, contact name, map URL, hours of operations.