Supplier Enablement

Supplier Enablement – SMEs need not worry

My experience with buyers is that they are concerned about how their SME suppliers will respond to the invitation to start trading electronically with them.

As a SME there is no need to worry as all that is required of you as a supplier is three things that are really easy to achieve.

1. Create and publish an electronic catalogue. This provides your customers with all the information that they need to requisition and raise orders for your products and services.

2. To be able to receive an electronic order when transmitted as an XML document.

3. To be able to send to your customer an electronic invoice as an XML document.

These three things are the basics and all that is required for a SME to be a fully fledged electronic trading partner. How do you that?

Are you generating your own electricity or extracting the water you need from your own well? No, because service providers are set up to deliver these essential services to you.

In the same way the services that you need to be an electronic trading partner to your customers, no matter where they are in the world, can easily be provided.

Suppliers tell me they need a solution that helps them to meet their customers' requirements, a minimal start-up investment, low running costs and the ability to use the solution with multiple customers. If this sounds right then follow this link for more information http://www.impaq.co.uk/

posted by FrankB @ Thursday, April 27, 2006