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Intranet Design Course. Part 2 of 6: Staged Intranet Development Pilot in Purchasing. Add suppliers. Brach out into the organization. Pilot in Purchasing.
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Intranet Design Course Part 2 of 6: Staged Intranet Development • Pilot in Purchasing. • Add suppliers. • Brach out into the organization.
Pilot in Purchasing • Purchasing already has a stable, commonly understood and widely practiced process having internal and external functions. A web site makes this process visible throughout Purchasing and the company at large. • Purchasing connects to and supports every department in your company. A Purchasing web site can improve purchasing function performance via Internet-based information gathering, planning and reporting. • Purchasing’s external functions make it important that Purchasing connects to other companies via the Internet. The Purchasing web site sets the stage for this to occur.
Add Suppliers • With a well-designed electronic commerce web site, you can make processes visible to each other, and you can reduce your cycle times by optimizing those processes for the Internet. • A web site provides broad and instant access to the global marketplace of suppliers and distributors, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. • You can open your web site to connect to your suppliers in order to directly monitor their processes and measure their performance. A Purchasing web site can improve external functions, including: value analysis, negotiation, supplier certification, sourcing and relations.
Branch Out Into the Organization • A corporate Intranet, built for electronic commerce and adaptability, can be modeled from Purchasing’s electronic commerce web site. • Designed appropriately, every organization can then improve its internal productivity by making their processes more explicit on their own internal web sites. • Then, every organization can selectively connect their web site to customers, financial organizations, logistical organizations, business partners, etc. to achieve similar process efficiencies. • Electronic commerce, designed and implemented this way, will allow the whole organization to coordinate in order to reduce the overall business cycle time.