ChemConnect and GE team up to provide services. (The 'Net Works).ChemConnect and GE Operation Services, a division of General Electric, will provide enhanced enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) inventory tracking and management tools and services to ChemConnect members. The joint effort will enable the implementation of a full suite of Chem eStandards, inventory, forecasting and collaborating electronic messages developed by the Chemical Industry Data Exchange (CIDX CIDX Chemical Industry Data Exchange CIDX Combined Immunodeficiency, X-Linked CIDX Canadain International DX Club ) for the transfer of extensible markup language See XML. (language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. http://w3.org/XML/. documents between ERP systems. Site members will be able to view inventory positions and automatically generate replenishment orders according to predefined inventory management rules. "This is a hands-off inventory and management solution that will save chemical and plastics companies time and money," said Kenneth Sherman, operations services general manager, GE. www.chemconnect.com |
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