IMS HERMES Merchandising Gateway® and
ChannelPartner® for Distribution Strategies -
Connected
eBusiness™
| HERMES & ChannelPartner is the
eBusiness solution for wholesalers, distributors and manufacturers who
sell through distributors, channel or resellers to end users. It allows you to improve operational
efficiency through increased collaboration with your trading partners in a
vertically integrated, customer-centric multi-channel model.
The following are some of the HERMES
features that help you
use the Internet to provide global
visibility and instantaneous information exchange across the supply
chain, so you can focus on delivering high-quality products in the
shortest time and at the lowest cost. |
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General Features
 HERMES
Merchandising Gateway
and its associated reseller applications HERMES ChannelPartner use
XML_RPC messages to
communicate, which means no lost orders or product-update transactions.
These use underlying Web protocols which means no need for special, costly
software to handle communications infrastructure.
easy integration of payment server schemes.
easy, web-based installation.
multiple/Unlimited ChannelPartners
(reseller websites) can be supported.
published database schema.
published XML RPC messaging/communications schema.
HERMES Merchandising Gateway Features
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a vendor can create, edit, delete products.
they can link related products to one another (i.e.
accessories/attachments)
these
individual products and their interrelations get transmitted to all
resellers selling vendor's products via Channelpartner storefronts.
ordered products and their interrelations
are dynamically received from
all resellers selling vendor's products via Channelpartner storefronts.
HERMES ChannelPartner Features
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ChannelPartner can be integrated into existing look and feel of the
website because of Hermes' template based infrastructure, which puts data
into variables which in turn can be plugged into templates.
reseller can create categories of products (such
as; TV, Stereos, PC's, Toys, other products, etc.)
reseller automatically receives new products or product edits, from the
vendor
new products can be assigned to categories.)
products
sold via the reseller website and their subsequent product orders and
interrelations get transmitted to the vendors HERMES gateway automatically
Security
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all messages between HERMES Gateway and Reseller ChannelPartner are
encoded using SSL for secure transactions
sessions management based security
HERMES Gateway & ChannelPartner uses a framework which separates website resources into
areas which only certain user classes can access. Administrators can add or remove areas, and define user classes.
Database abstraction
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HERMES ChannelPartner and HERMES Gateway uses a database abstraction
layer (this gives the reseller the flexibility to use the database of
their choice to hold all product information. System currently uses MySQL).
Requirements
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Cron access. The reseller and vendor must be hosted on UNIX based
servers (e.g. Linux) which support Cron jobs. ( Required to ensure that
all XML_RPC messages are sent between gateway and reseller servers)..
PHP V. 4.xx.
MySQL
Energize your Distribution and Dealer
Channel
The Internet is reducing
your traditional retailer's ability to influence purchasing behavior by
presenting customers with less reason to visit local stores and upending
the traditional value proposition offered to your consumers.
If you wish to be successful in
implementing the fundamental changes necessary to remain competitive and
take advantage of the Web, not only by selling from your own websites but
by empowering your existing dealers/distributors' websites.
HERMES was designed as an integrated
B2B4C solution. HERMES allows
collaborative
co-operation between your resellers,
suppliers and consumers.
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