x-Chain Inventory

X-Chain represents our software platform for the integration of Supply, Fulfillment, Retail and Value chains into a congruent Merchandising system. The X-Chain platform provides the essential work flow requirements of a growing and diverse product centric enterprise in addition to the standard inventory and sales requirements which are expected.

The primary objective of the X-Chain platform is to provide for many different sales channels into a common and uniform work flow for your product development and distribution enteprise by encapsulating internet presence requirements, retail store front requirements and the logistics and supply chain requirements into the right places of the Merchandising effort.

The X-Chain platform comprises a collection of Standard Applications, Web Interfaces, Workflow Applications, Maintenance Applications and Analysis Interfaces.

The Internet Presence of the Merchandising enterprise is comprehensive in the X-Chain Platform with user oriented Web Interfaces that are specific for the consumer, business customer, vendor, sales associate, retail center and operational facility.

Through tight integration of the standard and workflow applications in the X-Chain system, the Web Interfaces are dynamic and responsive as external and internal activities work together in the same software platform.

The web interface must be aware of the relationship the user has in the system and bind the relationship at the onset of the relationship. Employment of a click-through-agreement ensures that the party is aware of the relationship they have in the overall enterprise and the responsibilities they possess.

E-Store E-Commerce B2C (Business to Consumer Model)

Image++ combined with the E-Store allows your company to go on-line in no time in a professional and impressive manner. E-Store allows you to have multiple line-of-business sites such as Canadian and USA sites and then permits you to have multiple stores managed under each of these sites for fulfilment and customer tax considerations as well as creating an environment that is friendly to the global consumer and your business.

The system provides you with the ability to enter the E-Commerce world quickly and cost effectively within the context of your base system and without the costly development process.

Navigation and Presentation

The E-Store allows you to custom configure the navigation methods that your customers use to browse your merchandise in a professional drop down navigation tool custom developed for this purpose. Image oriented product listings, and a Product presentation page that brings Image++ to your customer with images, formatted descriptions, features and benefits, a style reference grid, associated product reference, special pricing presentation and a published Image++ document list that they can download from or launch using their own local applications.

The E-Store is managed like any profit center in the enterprise and supports all of the features associated with the overall system.

Merchandising

E-Store provides the merchandiser with easy to use tools to create the merchandising images required with the use of Image++ and easy to use publishing options that control the presentation of information on product lists and product pages.

The merchandiser uses simple application interfaces in system that are present in their day to day business tools for creating and maintaining product information and the E-Store is updated automatically.

Customer

The E-Store takes the customer through the entire transaction process including provisions for multiple shipping locations, multiple tender capabilities and through to order status and shipment status inquiry. Customers are provided purchase history information and the ability to use historical orders for new purchases, allowing frequent shoppers a faster and friendlier shopping experience.

E-BUSINESS E-Commerce B2B (Business to Business Model)

Image++ combined with the E-Business Web Interface allows your company to deploy an Internet Presence in a professional and timely manner. E-Business allows you to have multiple line-of-business sites such as Canadian and USA sites and then permits you to have multiple stores managed under each of these sites for fulfilment and customer tax considerations as well as creating an environment that is friendly to the global consumer and your business.

The system provide you with the ability to enter the E-Commerce world quickly and cost effectively within the context of your base system and without the costly development process.

Navigation and Presentation

The E-Business E-Trade site allows you to custom configure the navigation methods that your customers use to browse your merchandise in a professional drop down navigation tool custom developed for this purpose. Image oriented product listings, and a Product presentation page that brings Image++ to your customer with images, formatted descriptions, features and benefits, a style reference grid, associated product reference, special pricing presentation and a published Image++ document list that they can download from or launch using their own local applications. The sales side receives the same navigation tools found in our Professional Sales Desk application where they have a full Division, Department, Category and Class menu and an SBU (Strategic Business Unit) view into the merchandise.

The E-Sales side of the E-Business site does not adhere to publish/no-publish aspects of the merchandise objects and thus opens the entire business up to the sales associate as would be expected for internal resources.

System Integration

Whether a sales order is entered in the Professional Sales Desk application by a salesperson or the order is entered via the CapeTown E-Business Sales or Trade interface the destination of this data is precisely the same within the system. This creates a standard business flow as prescribed by the facility architecture.

Operational Center Web Interface

The Operational Center Web Interface focuses on the flow of inbound and outbound orders requiring processing for receiving, transfer and fulfillment purposes. With a focus on location management of inventory, placement and picking operations. The system is a mirror of the Operational Center Desktop application, with the exception of driving wireless hand-held equipment that allows the user to move around a distribution center or warehouse for the purposes of completing order processing.

Retail Center Web Interface

The Retail Center Web Interface focuses on the management and support of store level operations such as receiving, inventory management and counting and standard reporting and resource scheduling requirements.