ECN Plug IN Suppliers™

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Introducing ECN PINS™

Most organisations know the benefits of trading with their suppliers electronically. However, getting your smaller suppliers to make the transition to EDI is difficult (they struggle with the cost and the technology).

ECN Plug IN Suppliers™ (or ECN PINS™) allows you to trade electronically with 100% of your suppliers, by plugging them into your ERP system. There is also a version for your distributors and customers (ECN Plug IN Distributors™ - ECN PIND™).

How ECN PINS™ works

ECN PINS™ is an Internet product that takes Purchase Orders from your ERP system and puts them on a website, so suppliers can interact with them. Your suppliers can then send Purchase Order Acknowledgements, Advanced Shipping Notices and even Invoices, which are then translated by ECN PINS™ into EDI messages that go directly into your ERP system.
All your suppliers need to plug into your ERP system, is an Internet connection.

Message flow:

This system diagram shows the message flow process. Note how all the incoming messages are EDI regardless of if they originated on the web or in an EDI system.

PINS LITE™ and PINS PRO™

There are two versions of PINS™ - LITE and PRO. For more information on their features please click here.

Supplier Engagement

For your site to succeed, you must engage suppliers who don’t do EDI. This is difficult because there are more of them and they are often smaller and are less techno savvy.
ECN can do all or part of this work for you. This involves contacting suppliers, explaining and selling the concept and workings of ECN PINS™ and then signing and supporting users.
This engagement may take many forms such as: surveys, web sites, development and production of collateral, email and telesales campaigns etc. What is in a campaign and what role ECN plays, depends on the client’s needs.

For more information please contact an ECN Account Manager.