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The Engineering and Construction Group of one of the world's
largest providers of oil field services and has operations in more than 100
countries.
The client planned to create an online Vendor management system
to allow for the capture of vendor / supplier details for companies that are
wishing to provide either goods or services to them. Once captured, the data
will be used in the vetting process so as to ascertain the companies’
suitability to become an approved supplier. The client intended to set up the
site initially for use in one geographical region of its operations, which may
change in the future, and the system will be adaptable at a minimum cost should
this requirement arise.
Given the time constraint and complexity involved in the process
of implementation of a scalable and up gradable system, SCMC came up with a
solution of modularizing the entire process into two sub process:In-house
processing system (intranet) and Vendor processing system (internet)
This part of the system helps in setting up the initial
processing of the Vendor management system in the clients intranet. Some of the
function features are:
User Administration – allows for an administration user
to add and remove users, and also manage the security groups in which they
reside. Countries – allows for the administration of a list of countries.
Company Classification – allows for the administration of a list of
company classifications (NAICS codes) to be maintained, along with default
routing information
This part of the system is totally Internet facing offering an
online digital link between the vendor and the client and it streamlines
business processes and provides companies with significant time and cost
savings. Some of the function features are:
Supplier profile – Details the vendor’s nature of
business, contact information and DUNS, SIC and NAICS codes.
Business profile – Details company products, services, history,
turnover, experience, customers, ownership & operating areas.
Certification – Details any certification relating to the company
Safety – Details the number of lost time incidents (LTI), lost workdays
reported, number of recorded incidents and the number of man hours since the
last LTI
E-procurement – allows for the company to detail its electronic / online
capabilities
Submit – allows for the details entered to be submitted into the system
for vetting. Generates an automatic letter or email upon completion.
Some of the key features of the system are:
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Automated submission of requests from the client to vendors
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The ability to monitor status online
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Report facilities to manage and plan
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Inherits the features of XP gateway
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Context sensitive help screen facilities
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Message of the day
| Operating System |
Windows 9x,NT, 2000,XP |
| Programming languages |
VB 6.0 |
| Middleware |
COM, ADO 2.5 |
| RDBMS |
Oracle 9i |
| IDE |
Visual Studio 6.0 |
| Scripting languages |
Java script, VB script |
| Web technology |
ASP 3.0 |
| Middle-tier framework |
MTS, IIS |
| Analysis / Design |
Visual Modeler, VISIO |
| Methodology |
Rational Unified Process |
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