Hightech Solutions Maximize Business Efficiency The High-Tech and Engineering industry is one of the most sensitive industries to market trends, requiring the ability to respond rapidly with changes in products, prices, and market strategies. Technology that is considered state-of-the-art today can become obsolete virtually overnight. To accelerate your company's responsiveness to market and customer needs while ensuring optimal operational efficiency, you need to minimize procurement costs, shorten product life cycles, streamline sales and distribution channels, and integrate disparate internal systems. FrontSQL High-Tech Solutions enable you to realize the full potential of automated buying and selling processes. Based on FrontSQL Enfinity, one of the leading e-commerce platforms, these solutions include a flexible, modular set of components that combine packaged business functionality and industry best practices. The FrontSQL High Tech Solutions include: Procurement Marketplace Supplier B2B B2C The FrontSQL High Tech Solutions enable you to: Streamline procurement processes and tightly integrate suppliers Manage multiple sales channels more efficiently Seamlessly integrate internal systems High-Tech Solutions feature Streamline Procurement Processes and Tightly Integrate Suppliers FrontSQL High-Tech Solutions enable tight supplier integration to streamline an enterprise's purchasing processes and dramatically improve the efficiency of supply-side transactions. These solutions help manufacturers to improve demand planning and forecasting, minimize inventory costs, and fully leverage their buying power. They also enable enterprises to: Integrate raw material, parts, and component suppliers through a single, online procurement channel Manage and automate orders and authorization workflow processes Integrate and customize product catalogs for multiple vendors Streamline RFP and RFQ workflows Obtain real-time inventory and product availability information Utilize collaborative product design, configuration, and engineering tools Manage Multiple Sales Channels More Efficientlyt FrontSQL High-Tech and Engineering Solutions also include powerful multi-channel management tools that streamline sales, order processing, and distribution processes. These solutions facilitate faster transactions and better communication with distributors and wholesalers, improving both inventory planning and delivery times. Improved communications can enhance customer service and strengthen overall customer relationships. The benefits of effective multi-channel management also include increasing sales efficiency and order cycle times, allowing enterprises to sell excess inventories and further reduce costs. FrontSQL High-Tech and Engineering Solutions provide robust channel management features including: Automated order processing, tracking, logistics, and customer service Centralized management of customer accounts, profiles, and buyer groups Personalized, rule-based content according to customer profiles, merchandizing tactics, and marketing strategies Advanced management of product catalogs, repeat customer pricing, discounting, and promotions Integration with Ariba and Commerce One marketplace sites for direct and indirect sales Seamlessly Integrate Internal Systems FrontSQL High-Tech and Engineering Solutions also provide critical tools to enable smooth back-end system integration of an enterprise's procurement, sales, and distribution operations with critical back-end applications, including ERP, CRM, and legacy systems. With these solutions, leading high-tech and engineering companies are able to more effectively: Integrate sales operations with customer relationship management, contact center, and sales force automation systems Link ERP systems with procurement and sales data and processes Integrate legacy systems (i.e. inventory, sales, accounting, etc.) with strategic e-commerce systems Build your solution on a powerful e-commerce platform FrontSQL High-Tech & Engineering Solutions enable you to streamline and web-enable all of your buying and selling processes, integrate e-commerce and content management systems, and manage multiple e-commerce initiatives on a single platform. The foundation of the solutions is Enfinity, a proven, flexible e-commerce platform, which can be extended with Enfinity MultiSite and Enfinity Content Management as well as a feature-rich set of business components. The FrontSQLplatform provides the essential infrastructure for building an integrated e-commerce solution: Manage all of your sales and procurement channels on a single platform Improve the efficiency of business transactions and workflow processes Reduce the total cost of ownership of your e-business infrastructure with integrated content management and multi-site capabilities Strengthen relationships with partners and customers with improved service and personalized, targeted offerings Integrate Enfinity into your front-office, back-office, and legacy systems Deploy a highly scalable solution with support for multiple languages and currencies FrontSQL solutions have the flexibility to address changing business needs and can be fully customized to support your key corporate initiatives. Our global team of consultants and experienced implementation partners will ensure the success of your e-commerce solution. As your business grows, FrontSQL Solutions can scale to add more partners, serve additional customers, process thousands of orders, and manage millions of products. FrontSQL has a proven track record of delivering solutions faster than most other e-commerce vendors. Our customers measure implementation times in weeks, not months or years.