Whether
you're a manufacturer, medical
professional or a non-profit, organizations
often reach critical mass where
tight collaboration
is needed between its customers, suppliers,
partners, users, sales, or support organization.
Even though technology supporting
supply chain has been around for some
time the data hasn’t been available in
real time and is often inaccurate. With
the advent of the internet, technologies
have grown through extranet, and portal
intranet capabilities or have simply sprung
up behind the four walls of the enterprise.
This data is often vulnerable to viruses,
hackers and is often abandoned after some
time leaving the enterprise with no way
to take advantage
of a “flat world economy”.
Sabino Creek has finally done something about
this. Utilizing our experience over the years with manufacturers
and with taking advantage of technology capabilities found within
the ©Microsoft .NET platform, Sabino Creek has developed a technology
called PEN. PEN is a Private Exchange Network capable of tying
the supply chain and all the company resources together. PEN can
push, pull, monitor, and coordinate data and information from
various information systems through the supply chain with minimal
IT help. Once PEN is setup and activated, PEN can provide a secure
environment to collaborate with all data resources and users to
execute the enterprise plan. PEN will utilize a standard email
address as a notification area and will provide secure links into
the PEN community making it secure from the viruses and misuses
normally found on the internet.
Users can be given limited or full rights to
any areas of the system through a secure login environment. Once
logged in to PEN, a user can access its message boards, engineering
data, product structure information, sales data, order information,
messages, reports, etc. Specific areas (i.e. FTP) can be setup
to load and download data. The owner of the community can tailor
the rules for engaging the community and provide a “standard”
for the community to follow. Violators can be monitored and removed
with ease or can be restricted to public areas only.
Although this technology has been around for
some time, Sabino Creek now has made it available to small and
mid sized customers who typically don’t have IT help.
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