E-Markets, Inc., Ames, Iowa, and CROPLAN GENETICS, Arden Hills, Minn., have established the first Virtual Private Network (VPN) between Croplan and a trusted business partner. (E-Business News).
E-Markets, Inc., Ames, Iowa Ames is a city located in the central part of the U.S. state of Iowa, about 30 miles north of Des Moines in Story County. It is the principal city of the 'Ames, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area' which encompasses all of Story County, Iowa and which, when combined with the , and CROPLAN GENETICS, Arden Hills, Minn., have established the first Virtual Private Network (VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. ) between Croplan and a trusted business partner. The VPN completes a fully automated integration between the CROPLAN GENETICS SOAR21 Internet-based seed ordering and inventory management system and the Land O'Lakes - This article is about the growers cooperative; for the Florida town, see Land O' Lakes, Florida, for the Wisconsin town, see Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin.
Land O'Lakes JD Edwards, 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. system. The SOAR21 system, developed and hosted by E-Markets, Inc., enables the over 2,000 CROPLAN GENETICS retail outlets to efficiently manage their customers' order intentions for both CROPLAN GENETICS seed and the seed products of CROPLAN GENETICS seed marketing partners.
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| | Title Annotation: | SOAR21 allows easy order management |
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| Comment: | E-Markets, Inc., Ames, Iowa, and CROPLAN GENETICS, Arden Hills, Minn., have established the first Virtual Private Network (VPN) between Croplan and a trusted business partner. (E-Business News).(SOAR21 allows easy order management) |
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| Publication: | Agri Marketing |
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| Article Type: | Brief Article |
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| Geographic Code: | 1USA |
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| Date: | Sep 1, 2002 |
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