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Purchasing & orders

The last few years has seen a revolution in purchasing and orders with the introduction of internet banking, websites, web auctions and trading hubs. Find out how your business could use them, as others already do, to cut costs and improve the way it processes orders and manages purchasing.

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Technology, customers and suppliers

Cover of Technology, customers and suppliers guide

This brochure covers business processes from development to final delivery and advises on how to improve each process by closer collaboration with supply chain partners. URN: 04/816


Online auctions and trading hubs

British businesses are using internet auctions and trading sites to cut costs, procure more flexibility and reach new customers. Be one of them. URN: 04/1732


Electronic Data Interchange

A guide to implementing EDI from scratch, or if you’re already using it to automate order processing and invoicing, find out how to roll it out to other areas of your business. URN: 04/1736


QCD: measuring manufacturing performance

This brochure explains how using seven key performance measures under the umbrella of Quality, Cost and Delivery (QCD) can increase the efficiency and productivity of a business. These measures can be applied to most sectors. URN: 04/814


Electronic payments

Increasingly, customers expect to be able to pay online – this factsheet talks through the options, costs and how to implement an electronic payments system.


Integrating back office systems

Linking your back office and online systems together can make your business more efficient. Find out what the benefits are and how to go about it.

Case studies:

David Halsall International Ltd

Toy maker, designer and distributor David Halsall uses a mobile email system that enters orders directly onto the companies systems.


EP Barrus Ltd

This supplier of lawn mowers and other engineering machinery uses a paperless ordering system that has streamlined the process and won the company new business.


Escape Business Technologies

Broadband has been the backbone of Escape Business Technologies' effort to improve customer service and operating efficiency.


Watford Electronics

Watford Electronics has recently become an e-business facilitator for online sales for third parties by becoming an application service provider.

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