The solution
Logica and Intershop have partnered to deliver companies a solution that provides business flexibility and addresses the critical issues not met by prevailing e-commerce approaches. The Unified Commerce Management (UCM) solution is an integration hub that is designed to centrally manage business processes, mixed buyer and supplier commerce models as well as numerous channels of customers, partners and suppliers. Best of all, it does not require upgrades to existing enterprise applications.
In markets around the world, companies are experiencing the following benefits of Intershop's Unified Commerce Management solution:
Reduced cost of total implementation
UCM provides easy to use, yet highly sophisticated drag and drop business process modelling development tools for easy sharing and re-use of the best business processes, content and electronic catalogues across business units, countries and languages. Companies no longer need to suffer the high website management costs of replicating business processes in different channels.
Protection of existing investments
UCM empowers a company's existing business processes. At the same time it allows the company to quickly and easily model, create, connect and extend these solutions to their partners, suppliers and channels.
Increased collaboration across multiple channels and borders
UCM addresses the gaps in the commerce value chain due to different b2b, b2c, content management and procurement software. It seamlessly integrates cross-company business processes by providing workflow, security, analysis tools, content management and applications that are optimised to support all commerce models, unifying the demand chain to the supply chain. Rather than forcing trading channels to adapt to your company's processes, UCM makes it possible for your company to easily map to and work in harmony with the existing processes of partners that you do business with, reducing the cost for the entire value chain.
Rapid response to business and market changes
Developed in response to e-commerce requirements of world class companies in Australia, Asia, Europe and North America, the UCM solution comprises ready-to-deploy modules for multi-channel b2c, b2b, marketplace, procurement and supplier relationship management initiatives.
Increased return on investment
UCM helps companies start small and measure return on investment as they go. This is facilitated by UCM's unique highly scalable, open architecture and the drop and drag business modelling tools. UCM eliminates the integration costs and long development cycles of ERP type implementations. Customers can deploy a UCM solution in low-cost, low-risk manageable stages. A typical implementation occurs in 90 to 180 days.