Just as the CD replaced the record and e-mail is is replacing "snail mail," Phase is replacing paper-based transactions by automating, cataloguing and archiving business transactions.
Content Management Systems, CMS, enables business to electronically manage their storefront thereby reducing or eliminating most paper-based management and communication. Electronic Data Interchange, EDI, is the direct, standardized computer-to-computer exchange of routine business documents (such as invoices and purchase orders) between a company and its suppliers, customers and the government.
The combination of CMS and EDI is The Phase Engine®.
Phase has profound advantages. It cuts the costs associated with printed business forms and postage, shortens order-to-payment cycles and leaves fewer things to file away. It eliminates paperwork, minimizes errors and improves inventory management.
A traditional EDI setup requires the purchase of EDI translation software, and selecting a Value Added Network service that forwards a company's documents to the electronic mailboxes of intended recipients. To combat the price barrier, a few breakthrough software firms have developed ways to conduct EDI by using the Internet as the transfer medium instead of a VAN. Often there's no need to purchase software or make arrangements through VANs which can, in some instances, charge several dollars to transmit a single document.
Today, Phasedata's Phase Engine handles all the relationships between business, vendors and customers. From shipping via UPS to ordering via wholesale catalogues to invoicing customers electronically, the Phase Engine brings it all together.
1. Online Order Management2. Online Customer Management3. Online Transaction Management4. Online Communications -- Live Chat5. Online Shipping -- Direct Communications with UPS6. Online Invoicing7. Online Catalogues8. Online Marketing9. Online Wholesale Ordering10.Webmail and Email Integration
