E-COMMERCE

Market-leading order management solutions for the web

Nextjet E-Commerce is a leading online commerce application for both B2B and B2C transactions. Deployed by companies like Ann Taylor, Belkin Components, Disney.com, IKON Office Solutions, OKI Data, and Verizon, this market-proven solution offers rich functionality to comprehensively support a company’s online commerce initiative.

Launch an online transactional site within 60 days

Nextjet E-Commerce ships with hundreds of ready-to-deploy business processes that you can pick and choose from when implementing your enterprise commerce site. Because these ready-to-deploy processes are pre-built, you can go live with robust functionality very quickly. But pre-built doesn’t mean inflexible: Nextjet E-Commerce comes with the tools you need to adapt these business processes to the way that you run your business.

Build and maintain your product catalog easily

Rich representation capabilities within Catalog Management enable merchandising managers to quickly create product showcases that enable customers to compare product attributes side-by-side. Key features of this module include custom channel/partner specific catalogs, supplier catalog upload, product configuration, product comparisons, product alternatives and bundles. Catalog Management also provides a powerful search system with flexible options to help customers find the exact results they are seeking, including linguistic processing, and attribute-based search methods.

Flexibly support pricing rules and policies

A key element of Catalog Management is its powerful pricing engine, which supports a wide range of pricing rules including contract, cost and channel-based pricing as well as many types of discounts and promotions. This flexible capability allows organizations to readily adapt their internal pricing practices and recognize unique relationships with its purchasing agents.

Directly integrate your online channel to back-end fulfillment processes

Many companies that set up online channels also deployed separate supply chain fulfillment strategies to support them. Using web services supported by Nextjet’s Application Services Framework, Nextjet E-Commerce can be directly integrated into any multi-party fulfillment process so that executives and line managers can execute upon a single, synchronized supply chain strategy.

Enable suppliers & channels to directly manage product data

The catalog structure within Nextjet E-Commerce makes it possible for a supplier to directly manage their product catalog, or channel partner to access a syndicated product catalog that can be jointly managed by both the manufacturer and the reseller. Key features like check-in/check-out, version control allows the channel partner and the manufacturer to collaboratively manage pricing, inventory, and merchandising information while controlling the product content and overall brand identity and presentation.

CHANNEL MANAGEMENT

Energize your Partner Relationship Management (PRM) strategy

According to the Gartner Group, the average percentage of total revenue derived from channel partners increased from 15 percent in 1990 to 40 percent of total revenue in 2000, and is expected to rise to 65% by 2010. This trend underscores the increasing importance of a Partner Relationship Management (PRM) strategy to business success.

Channel Management is a comprehensive Partner Relationship Management solution to support your channel partners easily and profitably. It is a highly flexible and configurable tool that is designed to meet the needs of the enterprise as well as its channel partners.

Ensure a consistent brand experience

Provide greater control over how your products, your brand, and your message are communicated, resulting in less customer confusion, greater brand loyalty, and increased sales. Leverage customer insight and buying behavior to ensure a consistent buying experience across multiple customer touch points.

Features like Account Management allows users to manage both personal and group profiles & preferences, as well as represent organizational models using attribute definitions such as security (authorization levels), contract (e.g., discounts), display, financial considerations (e.g., credit), pricing (e.g., sales tax), promotions, user groups, process triggers, and approval flows.

Customize product merchandise to suit the partner’s market demographics

Key Channel Management capabilities include the creation of custom, channel partner- or market-specific catalogs. By using a single yet flexible catalog structure, companies can harmonize their product and customer data across multiple selling channels, which in turn, lower product management and channel marketing costs.

Customize pricing to suit the partner’s business strategy

Nextjet E-Commerce’s powerful pricing engine supports a wide range of pricing rules including contract, cost, tiered and channel-based pricing as well as many types of discounts and promotions. This flexible capability allows the E-Commerce solution to readily adapt to your internal pricing practices and recognize unique relationships with your purchasing agents.

Increase sales and customer interaction

Provide information on product availability, sourcing, and fulfillment in real-time through integration to back-end systems, which is key to intelligent product substitution, up-selling, and cross-selling decisions.

Convert site visitors from researchers to buyers

Guided selling capabilities helps elevates a site visitor from a researcher to a highly qualified lead much closer to buying. Through user-defined rules, companies can guide online buyers through questionnaires to interpret the customer needs and recommend the most appropriate products or services.

Smoothly transition online leads to offline account reps

The system collects lead information, hands off the lead, tracks it, and manages it until its conclusion. Your web site becomes a key selling aid, capturing visitors to your site and applying your best sales practices. These capabilities transform your visitors from researchers into committed customers for your brick and mortar reseller channel.