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B2B Consulting
Automating trading relationships between buyers and suppliers can save a business money by reducing transcription errors and spending less employee time processing routine transactions. Some trading partners even offer discounts when transactions are moved electronically.
Bluetail Lizard Consulting is experienced in working with the EDI, XML and flat file formats used in importing and exporting transactions. I can help you understand the volatile landscape of the B2B marketplace and hook you up with the right technology and service.
eProcurement
eProcurement is more than simply connecting to a service or using a particular software package, it also requires a commitment to changing the way you work.
eProcurement involves maintaining standards and disciplines for keeping electronic content information fresh and up-to-date. It requires integrating eProcurement into the overall workflow of your supply chain.
To be successful, the back-end legacy systems concerned with purchasing, inventory and finance need to be able to share electronic information with little human involvement.
eProcurement requires all of your trading partners to play by the same rules. You may even need to proselytize an industry adoption of standards so you, your competition and your collective trading partners make an investment in a single solution benefiting everyone.
BlueTailLizard can work with you to navigate the B2B issues through understanding your business, assessing your trading partners and helping you become part of a productive trading community.
eCatalog Setup and Deployment
A catalog is not simply descriptions and Units Of Measure. A catalog is a living set of data. This information needs to be available to your trading partners and you need the ability to keep it up-to-date.
You may have associated pictures and scaled pricing. Possibly you need to apply a taxonomy of nested categories to the catalog items. Bluetail Lizard Consulting understands these issues. I can analyze what you have, what you need and implement a working solution.
Business Process and Company Workflow Analysis
After having worked at or worked with several dozen companies, I am able to ask a large number of questions and get a good sense of how a company conducts business. Often an educated outside person asking the right questions is able to filter out the background noise, see things with a fresh viewpoint and identify inefficiencies in an existing workflow.
I can help eliminate inefficiencies. If you need to adapt a new technology into your existing business I can come in understand your workflow and help you integrate the new technology with its attendant benefits into your company.