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Capturing the supply chain

The solutions described on this site up to this page (if you are reading them in order!) have looked at single point transactions within either public or closed community markets. But the e-business revolution offers more than these single-step exchange mechanisms.

Commerce involves a constellation of exchange relationships with multiple vendors, multiple buyers, and multiple transactions of varying complexity. It's that complexity that leads to high overheads, a slowing of activity and, very often, repeated work processes.

Electronic methods, e-business, offers the potential to disaggregate these commercial supply chains and migrate them to pre-configured electronic transactions. The configuration, based around benchmarking of suppliers, buyer permissions hierarchies, pricing arrangements and process monitoring is controlled by the networked enterprise to drive productivity up and drive overheads out of the business.

Main Highway is ready for e-business, with the integrated solutions and tools to deliver these business benefits.

Elements of our integrated e-procurement solution

An e-procurement solution is an internet-based market community configured to meet your needs. This involves:

• Control of your user group with tiered log in and buying permissions hierarchy.
• A product database to enable exchanges to your requirements.
• Specification, pricing and other data configured in a customised database.
• Associated PurchasePoint viewer interfaces configured to allow you to control who can make purchases and what purchasing methods they can use.
• Data upload facilities for supply chain information, customised for vendor uploads and/or core administrator management.
• Configurable SupplyPoint viewer interfaces tailored to your contracted approved supplier list and configured to pre-contracted terms for supply of services, components or consumables.
• TollWay transactions handling system configured to allow you to monitor purchasing permissions, cash flow and bought ledger.

Supporting your needs

With all its solutions Main Highway works to catalyse electronic working methods to lower overhead costs and increase productivity. Building this into your company takes time and commitment, not least to enfranchise your staff into a new way of working.

Main Highway offers its commitment to your needs, not only to implement your solution but to ensure it will work for you and generate returns early. We build a full "people" programme; with training, support and maintenance into each of our projects.

Solutions in partnership:

The Main Highway community of communities wants to hear from any company seeking to adopt e-procurement solutions. Our experience with a wide range of vendors with diverse needs allows us to offer a headstart in the analysis and design of a solution that meets your needs.

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Supply Chain Capture

Supplier benchmarking

Buyer hierarchies

Price clearances against purchasing contract benchmarks

Logistics monitoring - real time plus audit history

Multiple vendor, multiple buyer management

Distributed viewer interfaces - browser based across the supply chain