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SeeCommerce

J. D. Edwards
SAP
Datasweep
Intrepa
Oracle
PeopleSoft
SeeCommerce

SeeCommerce - http://www.seecommerce.com/ has the SeeChain™ 3.5 software application.

 SeeCommerce's SeeChain applications include:

SeeChain Supplier for measuring and improving supplier timeliness, quality, and quantity delivery.
SeeChain Demand to measure the accuracy of the sales forecast compared to actual sales.
SeeChain Materials to identify potential raw material inventory shortages to meet forecasted usage.
SeeChain Production to see and measure production throughput against plans.
SeeChain Inventory to measure the inventory levels of finished goods in stock.
SeeChain Fulfillment for measuring delivery performance on customer orders.

SeeChain 3.5 extends the functionality of the SeeChain solutions through the addition of several key capabilities. These include enhanced access to detailed, personalized information, expanded Web-centric collaboration capabilities and configurable performance-metric thresholds for business managers and operations personnel. [xiv]

SeeChain 3.5 features include:

Personalized supply chain information:
Ability to jump to frequently accessed areas via bookmarks from home page
Subscription capability to monitor performance and annotation alerts
Improved easy access to performance reports
Expanded collaboration via discussion groups, intelligent information distribution technology, and knowledge capture
Customizable performance metric thresholds at each level of the business hierarchy
Extended data model that provides a data repository to maintain all information necessary to run the SeeChain applications
Filtering views that allow users to see all nodes, only high limit nodes, or only low limit nodes
Sun Solaris support
Oracle partitioning
New Data Store Loader (DSL) utility
Enhanced Security
Alternative views that allow users to see all products, only new products, or only obsolete products.

Daimler-Chrysler has purchased the SeeChain system to improve SCM for the Mopar Parts group.

SeeCommerce is also offering the application suite in a hosted ASP model.

 

 

This report was completed in October 2000 for the class B2B Electronic Commerce given by Prof. Carmel  in the program of Management Of Global Information Technology at the Kogod School of Business at American University in Washington D.C.