Why Partner with dCHAIN?

dCHAIN’s eHub eCommerce solution has been deployed in distribution companies world-wide. We provide enterprise level eCommerce for mid-size organizations. We bring to our customers “World Class” expertise, allowing them to gain access to cutting-edge international experience at an affordable price. This solution is followed by the Aberdeen Group and has been featured in ComputerWorld and eWeek.

 

Established in United States in 1996, at the University of Illinois, dCHAIN soon extended its operations to Panama City on December 2001. Today we have our Development Center and administrative offices at Panama’s City of Knowledge, and our office for USA in Houston, Texas.

 

Our technologies are based on building blocks the latest Java-based Internet Protocol (IP) architecture (including AJAX) which allows for development of custom-made solutions with strong performance, quality control and short time to market.

 

dChain Commerce's flagship product suite supports multiple distribution and fulfillment models, thereby reducing costs, improving inventory turnover, simplifying delivery and providing the customer with greater value. Our solution supports real-time pricing and inventory as well as custom service features.

 

dChain provides a flexible, cost-effective and rapidly deployed eCommerce solution enabling clicks-and-mortar companies to directly compete with the large "dot-com" corporations without changing their existing business practices. Vertical markets, such as the automotive and industrial distribution, have adopted the dChain technology as the new means of standardizing trade among many business partners.

 

Business Proposition

 

We have a simple licensing and reseller agreement that can be tailored to your needs to provide Enterprise Level eCommerce for mid-size customers at an affordable price. Our flexible list of services includes:

 

• Design Services
• Deployment Services
• Integration Services
• Hosting Services
• Content Development Services
• Help Desk Outsourcing

 

Our services are designed to complement your ability to provide data and system integration for standard ERP and data base applications. This assures success and “World Class” deployment.

 

System Advantages

 

• Provide better information through tight integration with your ERP systems.
• Quickly implement a solution in a SAP environment with cost savings tied to “know-how” of near-shore development staff.
• Leverage interfaces for SAP.
• dCHAIN can tailor a setup and unique drill down through our online administrator software.

The dChain Enterprise Platform consists of three modules that work together to create a powerful eCommerce solution.

 

Presentation Module

 

The Presentation Module consists of five administration functions that control the entire look and feel of the site, including:

• Marketing Builder
• Community Builder
• Customer Service Builder
• Reporting Builder
• eServices Manager

 

Transaction Module

 

 

Working in conjunction with the dChain Presentation Builder Module or another third party solution the Transaction Module takes orders from the Exchange shopping cart and processes them automatically. Orders are then broken down into two groups: 1) Stocked Items (available from the distributor’s inventory) and 2) Sourced Items (items that are not currently in inventory and must be located).

 

• For stocked items, an XML Purchase Order is created and sent to the Integration Module that updates the ERP system that a new order has been received for fulfillment.

 

• All “sourced” items are identified with a manufacturer or supplier (a trading partner); a new XML Purchase Order is then created and sent to the appropriate trading partner.

 

Collaboration Module

 

The dChain Collaboration module allows your customers to receive up-to-date pricing,availability, content and order status from trading partners, third-party eCommerce sites and their back-office ERP system either through direct XML connections or through the Owner Exchange Supplier Interface.

For more information contract, Bob Ingersoll, VP Business Development and Strategy at: bobingersoll@dchain.com.