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1.-The Global Enterprise

The global enterprise is the new architecture to operate globally. Global market is becoming a fact of life. Every businessman should start the steps to think about the new competition coming from abroad to local market, and how he can operate globally to increase his market share or at least keep his profit.

To manage the operations globally he needs to rely on the new Internet technology known as e.business and e.commerce.

The objective of the paper is to describe our approach and model to help an enterprise to operate globally

2.E-Business

E-Business is the use of Internet technology or more generally “Network Computing” to manage business..

The figure above shows that there is no limit of e-business applications that could be transferred to use Internet technology, CRM (Customer Relationship Management), SCM (Supply Chain Management) and more.

First, a set of questions and definitions should be answered and defined before applying Internet technology to business:

What is B2B?

"B2B" is an acronym for business-to-business. In the e-commerce world, B2B encompasses electronic trading between companies, typically between a buyer and supplier.

What is B2C?

"B2C" is an acronym for business-to-consumer. In the e-commerce world, B2C encompasses electronic trading between individual buyers and trading companies.

What is B2D?

"B2D" is an acronym for business-to-distributor. This is an extended expression, which is close to B2B, but we reserved the B2B to the relation between Company and its suppliers, whereas B2D is the relation between Company and its distributors.

What is an electronic transaction?

An electronic transaction is a purely automated business cycle. It's considered an electronic record of an event, such as the receipt of an order.

Electronic transactions benefit organizations most when used according to defined business rules

What is an e.Marketplace?

A trading community is an aggregation of companies that collaborate electronically to create an expanded buying and selling model. Automating their interactions helps to optimize supply chains and save participants money.

How does e-commerce differ from email?

E-commerce connects automated information system applications, whereas email sends data from one desktop to another.

Does the Internet is secured to protect trading information?

Proven, high-security technologies ensure that information communicated over the Internet remains highly reliable and secure. Information is encrypted so that it's useless to any interloper if intercepted. Authorization and certification techniques also ensure that the senders and receivers are who they say they are.

3.Supply Chain Management is possible through E.Business

The importance of e-business for manufacturing and distribution is undoubtedly in supply chain management (see fig.1). If high speed, low-cost communication and collaboration with customers and suppliers are critical success factors for effective supply chain management, then the e-chain is the future of business.

The very essence of supply chain management is effective collaboration throughout a network of customers, enterprise and suppliers. The potentials of improved productivity, cost reduction and customer service are enormous.

Of course, the benefits are based on effectively employing of the e-business, which is our role to coach the organization in the e.business roadmap.

Providing the right amount of relevant information to those who need it, when they need to know it, is in fact, the effective supply chain management from an information point of view.

Fast access to relevant chain information can pay off handsomely in lower costs, higher-quality decision- making, shorter cycle times and better customer service. The result in cycle time compression, decision-making quality and reduced overhead costs, among other benefits, makes e-chain processing a highly desirable web application.

For many companies, more effective supply chain management is where the profit and competitive advantages will emerge.

Fig.1 Supply Chain

Management

4.The Added Value to the Enterprise from The E.Business

Online Internet-based procurement system
Interactive dialogue with the suppliers
International, up-to-date data on suppliers, procurement volumes, materials, price changes, agreements, buyer data
Information and retrieval system for data on the international marketplace
Special web Workflow control with suppliers designed to fit business relationship between the Company and its suppliers.
Special web workflow and messaging between the different entities of the enterprise through the Intranet ( a private network for the Enterprise build on the Internet Technology)
Products’ catalogue to present company’s products, ,manage the sales and distribution functions between the company and its distributors (B2D) ,and between the company and its customers (B2C)
Documents transfer between different sites through Electronic Data Interchange EDI
Easy-to-operate interface through a Browser
High level of security
High availability (7 days x 24 Hours)
Scalability (Increase the number of users and volume of work without big investment)

5.The Global Enterprise Concept

The implementation of the above value added functions, through the modern Internet Technology, leads to the Global Enterprise (sometimes is called the E.Manufacturing.)

Our Architecture to implement the Global manufacturing is shown in Fig.2.In what follows ,is a short description for each layer:

1. The lowest layer is the connectivity layer .This can be build with different technologies . However, we highly recommend the Internet and Intranet.

2. The mid layer comprises three components ,namely: the Application Service Provider (ASP) component to run the ERP system of the enterprise .The ASP is simply a new way to use the software ,which is to install it at a data center and pay a monthly rent/user. The benefits of the Data Center model are explained in the next section. The second component in the mid layer is the e. Market to create a global selling outlet on the Internet .The third component is the EDI to serve the documents transfers between the different applications .

Fig.2-Architecture of the Global Enterprise

6-The Data Center Concept

The Application will be located at a data center uses the ASP (Application Serves Provider). Our Data Center Partners will cover from a single website, to a sophisticated disaster recovery facility. Any user in the enterprise can be connected through the high speed back bone (Intranet).The customers, distributors, and suppliers (whether local or international) can be connected throug,Internet.

Security

The multi-level security structure of the data center includes tiers with armored walls and doors with biographic access control as well as different detectors for motion, glass and smoke& fire to guarantee maximum protection. Additionally, the in and out movement inside the Data center is monitored with surveillance cameras ensuring an ongoing operation.

It is also vital to ensure that only legitimate users have access to potentially sensitive information and that transactions are protected from hacking and tampering, through advance security technology like SSL.