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| Business to Business Solution - The Cylon Solution |
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| The Cylon Application has been developed using the Microsoft .NET open architecture. Cylon Technology decided to adopt the .NET environment as a development platform and the system was designed from scratch using .NET criteria from its inception. Cylon Technology is the first South African company that is Microsoft .NET certified. |
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| The solution lies in a single, generic system which is simple, easy to implement, quick to evaluate and economical to introduce and run. It is a WEB based hosted system which means companies that have been looking at purchasing or developing their own system need not spend all that money. The only fee payable to Cylon is a transaction fee. Only Pay for what you use. The Cylon Spend Management System offers all this and more. Cylon Technology has developed such a system with a number of outstanding features, which will not only assist buying and selling locally, but will facilitate international trade. In fact, it delivers everything that a corporate buyer or seller can wish for: |
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- Market / Sector independent
- Mobility
- Strategic Sourcing
- Ease of operation essential
- Economical - avoid up-front costs
- Immediate installation
- Deploy and use - Immediate Return on Investment
- Caters for all business types - from small business to large corporates
- Caters for world wide multi-currency inter country transactions
- Countrywide, ongoing support by trained staff, on site
- Ability to be integrated into existing back office systems.
- Based on proven, robust, scaleable technology
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| The Cylon Solution is a generic Internet based Spend Management system that can handle any kind of product and can accommodate any size company. This enables Suppliers or Buyers to trade electronically with each other on a one- to- one relationship basis. This also places small and large companies on an equal footing regarding Spend Management and allows the smaller companies the benefit of having the same technology as the larger corporates. A prime consideration in the development of the product has been the likely impact on regional suppliers and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). To minimise this, Cylon wanted to ensure that businesses adopted electronic commerce technologies to facilitate low cost supplier participation that offers suitable return on investment. |
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The System was developed from a businessman's perspective - it is looking after the practical needs of the whole business: -
- its profitability and functionality;
- the controls and reporting required by any financial controller;
- the compatibility and integration needed by the IT department; and
- the ease of operation by the buying or selling department.
- places the enterprise squarely in control of its own processes and information.
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| Buyers |
- Have access to all your suppliers product information / catalogues on one system
- Create purchase orders 24 hours 7 days a week
- One consolidated product listing / catalogue for all your suppliers
- Always have the latest Prices, Products and Specials
- Comparative pricing on one screen
- Order tracking and automated notification of order actioned by supplier
- Single order - multiple suppliers
- Worldwide coverage
- Free user training
- Market / Business Sector independent - Use one system to do business with all your suppliers. Small business to large corporate
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| Suppliers |
- Maintain base product information / catalogue only
- Provide product information / catalogue access permissions to customers
- Customised pricing by Customer groups or specific customers
- Receive orders 24 hours 7 days a week
- Received orders always have the correct Price, Item code and Quantity
- Automated notification of order received
- Run SPECIALS at any time for any or all customers
- Worldwide coverage
- Reporting by customer, by order, by product
- Free user training
- Market / Business Sector independent - Use one system to do business with all your buyers. Small business to large corporate
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| Sources of eProcurement Return on Investment |
- Reduced Procurement Group Headcount
- Not fielding questions on order or requisition status.
- Not having to create orders on behalf of end users.
- Not physically handling orders
- Enabling Strategic Sourcing
- Spend Management is how you implement strategic agreements for both direct and indirect material.
- End Users Save Time
- With a simpler quicker process.
- Instant access to corporate contract pricing.
- Reduction in costs because of more accurate and quicker electronic order information exchange.
- Spend Management
- Not only managing the tactical day-to-day orders that go out or are received, but managing the strategy of who buyers are placing the orders with and who the key suppliers are.
- Placing the organization squarely in control of its' own processes and information.
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| Getting the Solution to Market |
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Cylon Technology realised that having a "product only" was not the answer to business's problems. Many companies can supply B2B products which may or may not be able to do the job, but not one of these 'product supply' companies are able to deploy their B2B products without huge cost and extended time lapses.
Cylon Technology after extensive research on how to best distribute our product decided on a franchise model. The product was then built with the franchise model in mind. The franchise model has enabled us to rapidly cover a large geographical area and have resources available to provide buyers and suppliers with our product knowledge and support in the various geographical regions.
This is a win-win solution for Buyers and Suppliers. |
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