SupplyChannel™ uniqueness lies in the fact that it eliminates the buyers need to maintain suppliers product data. However, retains their full control over catalog content, access and look and feel!

  A Technological Breakthrough that Makes a Difference
Incorporating AGENTics patent pending Virtual-Catalog technology, SupplyChannel™ enables users to simultaneously access multiple on-line catalogs, residing at supplier sites, as though they were one, unified catalog. Suppliers do not need to provide any special or dedicated interface. The end-result is exceptional, delivering product information with unmatched accuracy, relevancy and uniformity of display, in real-time.

  A Fertile Ground for Business Process Streamlining
Traditionally, corporate purchasing has been conducted by pushing paper forms from office to office, creating unnecessary costs and delays. Inefficiency is mostly apparent in the procurement of operating resources (indirect purchasing), comprising the majority of purchasing transactions. Today, it is generally accepted that web-based enterprise-wide purchasing systems can streamline the process and make it efficient by directly linking employees with suppliers, creating a self service purchasing environment.

Incorporating the organization's purchasing controls, the solution virtually eliminates the paper chase, as well as the labor costs and time lag associated with a paper-based process.

  An Exceptionally Powerful yet Straightforward Solution
Incorporating AGENTics Virtual-Catalog technology, SupplyChannel™ is the only solution providing unified view, navigation and ordering of products residing in disparate on-line catalogs. This breakthrough capability delivers tremendous functional and business benefits:

• Minimal setup and maintenance costs
  AGENTics Virtual-Catalog technology does not require any technical cooperation from the suppliers. Adding full unified access to a new supplier's catalog requires only several minutes from the system administrator.

• The most up-to-date product information
  Central to AGENTics Virtual-Catalog technology is the fact that all product information resides at the supplier sites where it is always kept up-to-date, correctly reflecting inventory status, price and new features.

• Unified view and navigation
  AGENTics Virtual-Catalog technology provides unified view, navigation and ordering of products residing in disparate on-line catalogs. For each product, it provides a most intuitive and unified look and feel for the major product information pieces, while maintaining the catalog native look-and-feel for further details.

• Powerful product search and identification
  AGENTics Virtual-Catalog technology provides a unique combination of browse and free-text searches which gives users unmatched effectiveness and accuracy in locating products.

  A Comprehensive Procurement Management Solution
SupplyChannel™ is a complete purchasing solution. It includes all the components required to make it a viable self service procurement system.

• Purchase controls
  Definition and automatic enforcement of management controls at all stages of the employee self-service procurement process.

• Order management
  Record keeping, processing and reporting for employee orders.

• Products catalog
  Provides controlled and audited access to approved vendors product information.