EXTRICITY FOR E-RETAILERS

Delivering the tools eRetailers need-today.
Extricity seamlessly integrates eRetailers' order fulfillment and inventory processes with their trading partners, and ultimately to all partners in their e-business supply chains.
Extricity for eRetailers provides the tools that allow our customers to scale rapidly, provide best-in-class customer service, and react swiftly to a rapidly changing marketplace to gain a distinct competitive advantage.

"We selected Extricity for its superior process architecture that we will use as the integration backbone for our internal systems, as well as to fully integrate our external supply chain partners in a virtually seamless environment," said Doug Voss, director of supply chain systems at Mary Kay. "Extricity provides us with great flexibility in integrating new processes and partners as we introduce new products and services to expand the scope of our e-business initiative."

With testimonials like that, we believe we're on the right track to help our eRetail customers be successful. Learn more about the attributes of our exciting eRetailer solution.

Open
Rapid
Scalable & Reliable
Process-based


Open - Extricity for eRetailers is interoperable with other B2B tools. It allows you to use FTP, HTTP, EDI, or the Web to connect to your customers and fulfillment partners, and is based on open standards such as XML for describing the information you need to share to meet your customers' needs. This open architecture ensures that your organization can easily create connections with all of your customers and suppliers. Extricity for eRetailers is also able to integrate into diverse internal system: SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Baan, files, COM, CORBA, etc.


Rapid - New trading partners can be added in minutes after initial setup, which is usually only a matter of a few days or weeks depending on the scope of the project. And Extricity's pre-packaged adapters and application integration wizards make integration to your ERP or other internal systems a snap-without the need for additional programming.

Scalable & Reliable - Extricity for eRetailers is a complete platform that is designed to scale as your organization does. Extricity for eRetailers contains rich administration functionality in a single place that allows you to change systems and business processes without significant changeover costs or downtime. Plus, Extricity for eRetailers contains sophisticated checkpoint and restart capabilities to recover gracefully in the case of network failures-rich capabilities to ensure that your fulfillment system is able to reliably service your customers..

Process-based - Extricity defines the concept of inter-company business processes. "Public" processes (B2B processes such as order management and logistics) that run between your organization and its customers and suppliers are kept separate from internal or "private" processes (such as integrating with a system that calculates tax and freight) to give unmatched flexibility. Extricity for eRetailers gives you the ability to quickly and easily implement both types of processes through Extricity's graphical management environment. Extricity for eRetailers gives you the open, powerful platform you need to ensure your customers stay satisfied.

"To survive consolidation, online retailers must anchor themselves by building sustainable assets that will attain scale, service, and speed. 

Leaders will need to focus on hard assets that support high sales volumes and lower costs per transaction: a large, loyal customer base; in-house fulfillment capabilities; and a rock-solid internal organization. 

Online retailers must strike back at brand confusion and product duplication by distinguishing themselves through customer service. …Retailers should adopt technologies and strategies that adjust to unforeseen competitive forays and customer demands.
- Forrester Research

Find out more about the processes we enable for e-Retailers that help them meet these challenges.