Eqos's admired engagement-based adventures discussed in the antecedent allotment of this alternation (please see One Vendor's Quest to Garner a All-around Sourcing Ecosystem) were parlayed into the 2006 barrage of Eqos 3.0 and the added contempo barrage of Eqos 4.0 in May 2007. Eqos's Web-based applications advice retailers accumulate and calibration their sourcing operations by acceptance every affiliate in the accumulation chainwhether amid in Boston (US), Pretoria (South Africa), or Beijing (China)to coact online and admission the a lot of abreast advice on the sourcing action of chump goods.
Based on best practices abstruse through its plan with such retailers as Best Buy and Tesco, the adapted Eqos artefact enables retailers to administer the sourcing action of goods, from antecedent abstraction and architectonics through to artefact specification, bid administration and assessment, landed costs estimation, packaging, sampling, testing, and final adjustment confirmation.
Hosted by Eqos (www.eqos.com), the band-aid includes analytical aisle management, workflow management, advertisement analytics, and an alerts-and-exceptions function. Pertinent information, including artefact images, can be entered into a adept repository, which reduces duplication and errors, and provides a individual appearance of the accumulation pipelineaccessible to accustomed centralized or alien users. The solution, which aswell enables the ecology of suppliers from a superior acquiescence and accident administration perspective, has always bigger its intuitiveness. It now allows all levels of designers, technicians, and buyers, as able-bodied as supplier personnel, to calmly clue the sourcing process.
Another aloft advance for Eqos came mid-2006, if Edgars Consolidated Food Limited (Edcon), the arch retail accumulation in South Africa for clothing, footwear, and textiles, called the vendor's all-around sourcing band-aid to advance supplier collaboration, abutment the amplification of its retail accumulation chain, bear the latest fashions to consumers faster, and accession basal band profitability. The band-aid has back been implemented by a collective Eqos and Accenture aggregation alive carefully with the Edcon merchants.
Operating in Johannesburg as Edgars Administration Abundance back 1929, Edcon today offers ten retail brands: Edgars (offering clothing, footwear, kitchenware, domiciliary textiles, and housewares), Jet (clothing and footwear), C N A (books, stationery, and music), Red Square (cosmetics), Boardmans (housewares, domiciliary textiles, and kitchenware), Legit (young women's fashion), Jet Shoes (footwear), Temptations (intimate wear), Prato (footwear), and JetMart (general commodity such as clothing, kitchenware, music, do-it-yourself (DIY) items, baby electrical appliances, domiciliary textiles, bloom and adorableness products, and stationery). Grouped aural the Edcon administration food and abatement divisions, the aloft brands awning assorted categories throughout the almost 1,000 food amid beyond South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland, and Lesotho.
Eqos Today
Consequently, Eqos is currently acknowledging some of the world's arch retailers by hosting their abreast 15,000 users (which cover retailers, agents, suppliers, and added trading partners) in over 55 countries. Eqos is a professionally managed and growing alignment of about 70 employees, and the bell-ringer has been consistently profitable, with division over division growth. It has afresh accomplished concrete expansion, aperture offices in Boston, Massachusetts (US) in aboriginal 2006, and in Hong Kong, China in aboriginal 2007. This latest investment has signaled the company's charge to acknowledging added absolutely customers' sourcing operations in Asia.
Eqos's all-around amplification comes as added retailers authorize sourcing offices and strengthen relationships with agents and cardinal suppliers throughout Asia. The company's Hong Kong appointment provides retailers and their trading ally with Mandarin, Chinese, and English accent abutment beyond abundant time zones and bounded regions. Eqos supports added than 4,000 users in China alone. On a all-around basis, the aggregation manages added than 5,000 affairs a day and 100,000 user logins per month, thereby acknowledging the administration of about 38 billion dollars (USD) account of account annually.
The a lot of contempo US chump win took abode in April 2007; banker H.E. Butt Grocery Aggregation (H-E-B) called Eqos's business solutions to abutment and aggrandize its all-around sourcing and supplier administration operations, as able-bodied as to enhance its clandestine characterization offerings by convalescent accumulation alternation accord and visibility. H-E-B opened its aboriginal abundance in 1905 in Kerrville, Texas (US), and today is one of the nation's bigger apart endemic retailers, confined a ample ambit of customers. With added than 300 food in Texas and Mexico, the bazaar alternation earns revenues in balance of 12 billion dollars (USD). Now based in San Antonio, Texas, H-E-B employs added than 60,000 ally and serves millions of barter in over 150 communities. Known as an IT innovator, the banker claims to accept consistently outpaced its competitors by alms differentiated articles and casework through a array of formats.
Another trend that has played a key role in Eqos's success is that retailers are added implementing clandestine characterization strategies to advice abound their revenues. As appear in The Promise (and Complexities) of Clandestine Labels (and accustomed the alternating clandestine characterization affair appropriately far in this article), there is acutely a growing trend a part of retailers against alms clandestine (or the retailer's own) labels and brands. Consequently, a axiological analysis of the anatomy of all-around sourcing has occurred; companies are now reconsidering whether they charge agents or added middlemen at all, back added and more, companies can now plan anon with manufacturers via Internet trading exchanges. Accustomed some appear success with lower-priced abode brands, retailers in several segments, including fast-moving chump appurtenances (FMCG), chump electronics, and apparel, are accretion their focus on clandestine characterization commodity (which is about imported) to yield advantage of allowance improvements, bigger superior consistency, and cast loyalty.
For instance, banker Best Buy accomplished that it could not attempt with the brand of Sony and Panasonic in high-end, exceptional electronics equipment, appliances, and computers because of these two brands' loyal chump bases. However, Best Buy aswell accomplished that no such chump adherence exists for accent items. Therefore, the banker has appear up with its own band of competitively priced cable products, as able-bodied as added peripherals, such as alien drives, USB ports, keyboards, etc. The banker has aswell begin a alcove bazaar acceptant to clandestine characterization TV sets and chump electronics, at the low and mid-range amount points.
Eqos's Accepted Mission Enabled by a Service-oriented Architectonics Platform
Eqos's accepted mission is to become the arch provider of all-around sourcing and supplier administration solutions for the retail accumulation alternation worldwide, allotment sourcing and accretion admiral and clerks to advance time to market, access chump value, advance margins, abatement operating costs, and calibration clandestine characterization business. In added words, the abstraction is to accredit barter to access their amount of ascendancy over their all-around accumulation bases, thereby active aggressive advantage and announcement collaborative artefact and supplier innovation. This is to be accomplished by simplifying, standardizing, and ascent the processes associated with the sourcing of clandestine characterization commodity beyond the absolute supplier network, by alive collaboratively with suppliers. These processes amount from the antecedent artefact abstraction through to assembly and accumulation to the retailer's administration centers (and in some cases, into the after-sale phases).
In accession to software and support, Eqos offers hosting support, user association management, and applications administration services. These offerings axis from Eqos's accepting that over time, companies accept invested in technology to abutment their business and accumulation alternation processes. The admiration of companies to assure their investments accept to be counterbalanced with the activity and acceleration that the bazaar is demanding. This agency that anew acquired capabilities accept to accompaniment absolute IT environments in a way that seamlessly integrates advice and processes beyond both old and new systems. The abstraction (if not an imperative) is to advantage retailers' bequest action adeptness planning (ERP) and accumulation alternation administration (SCM) applications to body forward-thinking cross-enterprise processes that advance accord amid retailers and their suppliers, affairs offices, and added trading partners.
Logically, all-around sourcing and supplier accord administration (SRM) appeal ascendancy of action processes and abutting accord with suppliers (all of which may accept actual altered systems or levels of IT expertise). Thus, managing the all-encompassing and assorted retail accumulation alternation requires a simple access to workflow and activity administration that is accurate by network-wide collaboration.
The Eqos Accord Belvedere is congenital on service-oriented architectonics (SOA) accustomed the accurateness of the peer-to-peer (P2P) and SOA concepts, and underpins the absolute Eqos band-aid apartment with a adjustable architectonics that can acclimate to rapidly alteration business needs and IT landscapes. The appliance addresses all-around sourcing, artefact lifecycle management, and supplier administration business flows. It not alone streamlines affiliation with trading partners, but aswell handles centralized affiliation appliance adjustable adaptable markup accent (XML)-based servers.
Early in 2006, Eqos appear the barrage of its new belvedere release, Eqos Belvedere 7, which was primarily an "architectural" absolution with the afterward three arch areas of avant-garde development:
1. A technology move to Microsoft.NET technologies and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database to accommodate bigger performance. Band-aid developers can use these acclaimed and boundless technologies to extend the amount capabilities of the Eqos solution.
2. Added achievement enhancements through a added adjustable abstracts schema. This new access has addressed the needs of barter that are embedding collaborative solutions added acutely into their business and accretion the cartage through them, by accouterment easier aeronautics and customization of abstracts and reports. To that end, the platform's latest absolution has decidedly bigger the scalability and has bargain demands on acknowledging accouterments by two-thirds, acceptance added abstracts and circumstantial users to be managed than anytime before.
3. Enhancements that added abridge the collaborative appliance developer's experience, authoritative these applications even added productive. Such enhancements cover a richer web user interface (UI), bigger countersign management, and quicker abstracts entry. At a abstruse level, barter accept back been able to define, customize, and administer their web pages and web UI configuration, thereby simplifying the configuration, maintenance, and amplification of appliance web sites. Further, improved, added adjustable accession and agreement options acquiesce barter to acclimate the appliance to accommodated their alteration requirements.
The appliance is attainable to added programs by appliance the adeptness and adaptability of affiliation via Web casework (see Understanding SOA, Web Services, BPM, BPEL, and More). XML is acclimated for abstracts mapping and action definitions to Web services, bequest systems, and databases, or to any added third affair system. Again, this brings us to the important adeptness of leveraging absolute applications (that is, a appearance and the abstraction of the abstracts from several disparate antecedent systems), such as adjustment administration systems, barn administration systems (WMSs), account masters, bell-ringer masters, etc., and accumulation them on a individual screen, appropriately aspersing acceptable hard-coded affiliation costs.
Based on best practices abstruse through its plan with such retailers as Best Buy and Tesco, the adapted Eqos artefact enables retailers to administer the sourcing action of goods, from antecedent abstraction and architectonics through to artefact specification, bid administration and assessment, landed costs estimation, packaging, sampling, testing, and final adjustment confirmation.
Hosted by Eqos (www.eqos.com), the band-aid includes analytical aisle management, workflow management, advertisement analytics, and an alerts-and-exceptions function. Pertinent information, including artefact images, can be entered into a adept repository, which reduces duplication and errors, and provides a individual appearance of the accumulation pipelineaccessible to accustomed centralized or alien users. The solution, which aswell enables the ecology of suppliers from a superior acquiescence and accident administration perspective, has always bigger its intuitiveness. It now allows all levels of designers, technicians, and buyers, as able-bodied as supplier personnel, to calmly clue the sourcing process.
Another aloft advance for Eqos came mid-2006, if Edgars Consolidated Food Limited (Edcon), the arch retail accumulation in South Africa for clothing, footwear, and textiles, called the vendor's all-around sourcing band-aid to advance supplier collaboration, abutment the amplification of its retail accumulation chain, bear the latest fashions to consumers faster, and accession basal band profitability. The band-aid has back been implemented by a collective Eqos and Accenture aggregation alive carefully with the Edcon merchants.
Operating in Johannesburg as Edgars Administration Abundance back 1929, Edcon today offers ten retail brands: Edgars (offering clothing, footwear, kitchenware, domiciliary textiles, and housewares), Jet (clothing and footwear), C N A (books, stationery, and music), Red Square (cosmetics), Boardmans (housewares, domiciliary textiles, and kitchenware), Legit (young women's fashion), Jet Shoes (footwear), Temptations (intimate wear), Prato (footwear), and JetMart (general commodity such as clothing, kitchenware, music, do-it-yourself (DIY) items, baby electrical appliances, domiciliary textiles, bloom and adorableness products, and stationery). Grouped aural the Edcon administration food and abatement divisions, the aloft brands awning assorted categories throughout the almost 1,000 food amid beyond South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland, and Lesotho.
Eqos Today
Consequently, Eqos is currently acknowledging some of the world's arch retailers by hosting their abreast 15,000 users (which cover retailers, agents, suppliers, and added trading partners) in over 55 countries. Eqos is a professionally managed and growing alignment of about 70 employees, and the bell-ringer has been consistently profitable, with division over division growth. It has afresh accomplished concrete expansion, aperture offices in Boston, Massachusetts (US) in aboriginal 2006, and in Hong Kong, China in aboriginal 2007. This latest investment has signaled the company's charge to acknowledging added absolutely customers' sourcing operations in Asia.
Eqos's all-around amplification comes as added retailers authorize sourcing offices and strengthen relationships with agents and cardinal suppliers throughout Asia. The company's Hong Kong appointment provides retailers and their trading ally with Mandarin, Chinese, and English accent abutment beyond abundant time zones and bounded regions. Eqos supports added than 4,000 users in China alone. On a all-around basis, the aggregation manages added than 5,000 affairs a day and 100,000 user logins per month, thereby acknowledging the administration of about 38 billion dollars (USD) account of account annually.
The a lot of contempo US chump win took abode in April 2007; banker H.E. Butt Grocery Aggregation (H-E-B) called Eqos's business solutions to abutment and aggrandize its all-around sourcing and supplier administration operations, as able-bodied as to enhance its clandestine characterization offerings by convalescent accumulation alternation accord and visibility. H-E-B opened its aboriginal abundance in 1905 in Kerrville, Texas (US), and today is one of the nation's bigger apart endemic retailers, confined a ample ambit of customers. With added than 300 food in Texas and Mexico, the bazaar alternation earns revenues in balance of 12 billion dollars (USD). Now based in San Antonio, Texas, H-E-B employs added than 60,000 ally and serves millions of barter in over 150 communities. Known as an IT innovator, the banker claims to accept consistently outpaced its competitors by alms differentiated articles and casework through a array of formats.
Another trend that has played a key role in Eqos's success is that retailers are added implementing clandestine characterization strategies to advice abound their revenues. As appear in The Promise (and Complexities) of Clandestine Labels (and accustomed the alternating clandestine characterization affair appropriately far in this article), there is acutely a growing trend a part of retailers against alms clandestine (or the retailer's own) labels and brands. Consequently, a axiological analysis of the anatomy of all-around sourcing has occurred; companies are now reconsidering whether they charge agents or added middlemen at all, back added and more, companies can now plan anon with manufacturers via Internet trading exchanges. Accustomed some appear success with lower-priced abode brands, retailers in several segments, including fast-moving chump appurtenances (FMCG), chump electronics, and apparel, are accretion their focus on clandestine characterization commodity (which is about imported) to yield advantage of allowance improvements, bigger superior consistency, and cast loyalty.
For instance, banker Best Buy accomplished that it could not attempt with the brand of Sony and Panasonic in high-end, exceptional electronics equipment, appliances, and computers because of these two brands' loyal chump bases. However, Best Buy aswell accomplished that no such chump adherence exists for accent items. Therefore, the banker has appear up with its own band of competitively priced cable products, as able-bodied as added peripherals, such as alien drives, USB ports, keyboards, etc. The banker has aswell begin a alcove bazaar acceptant to clandestine characterization TV sets and chump electronics, at the low and mid-range amount points.
Eqos's Accepted Mission Enabled by a Service-oriented Architectonics Platform
Eqos's accepted mission is to become the arch provider of all-around sourcing and supplier administration solutions for the retail accumulation alternation worldwide, allotment sourcing and accretion admiral and clerks to advance time to market, access chump value, advance margins, abatement operating costs, and calibration clandestine characterization business. In added words, the abstraction is to accredit barter to access their amount of ascendancy over their all-around accumulation bases, thereby active aggressive advantage and announcement collaborative artefact and supplier innovation. This is to be accomplished by simplifying, standardizing, and ascent the processes associated with the sourcing of clandestine characterization commodity beyond the absolute supplier network, by alive collaboratively with suppliers. These processes amount from the antecedent artefact abstraction through to assembly and accumulation to the retailer's administration centers (and in some cases, into the after-sale phases).
In accession to software and support, Eqos offers hosting support, user association management, and applications administration services. These offerings axis from Eqos's accepting that over time, companies accept invested in technology to abutment their business and accumulation alternation processes. The admiration of companies to assure their investments accept to be counterbalanced with the activity and acceleration that the bazaar is demanding. This agency that anew acquired capabilities accept to accompaniment absolute IT environments in a way that seamlessly integrates advice and processes beyond both old and new systems. The abstraction (if not an imperative) is to advantage retailers' bequest action adeptness planning (ERP) and accumulation alternation administration (SCM) applications to body forward-thinking cross-enterprise processes that advance accord amid retailers and their suppliers, affairs offices, and added trading partners.
Logically, all-around sourcing and supplier accord administration (SRM) appeal ascendancy of action processes and abutting accord with suppliers (all of which may accept actual altered systems or levels of IT expertise). Thus, managing the all-encompassing and assorted retail accumulation alternation requires a simple access to workflow and activity administration that is accurate by network-wide collaboration.
The Eqos Accord Belvedere is congenital on service-oriented architectonics (SOA) accustomed the accurateness of the peer-to-peer (P2P) and SOA concepts, and underpins the absolute Eqos band-aid apartment with a adjustable architectonics that can acclimate to rapidly alteration business needs and IT landscapes. The appliance addresses all-around sourcing, artefact lifecycle management, and supplier administration business flows. It not alone streamlines affiliation with trading partners, but aswell handles centralized affiliation appliance adjustable adaptable markup accent (XML)-based servers.
Early in 2006, Eqos appear the barrage of its new belvedere release, Eqos Belvedere 7, which was primarily an "architectural" absolution with the afterward three arch areas of avant-garde development:
1. A technology move to Microsoft.NET technologies and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database to accommodate bigger performance. Band-aid developers can use these acclaimed and boundless technologies to extend the amount capabilities of the Eqos solution.
2. Added achievement enhancements through a added adjustable abstracts schema. This new access has addressed the needs of barter that are embedding collaborative solutions added acutely into their business and accretion the cartage through them, by accouterment easier aeronautics and customization of abstracts and reports. To that end, the platform's latest absolution has decidedly bigger the scalability and has bargain demands on acknowledging accouterments by two-thirds, acceptance added abstracts and circumstantial users to be managed than anytime before.
3. Enhancements that added abridge the collaborative appliance developer's experience, authoritative these applications even added productive. Such enhancements cover a richer web user interface (UI), bigger countersign management, and quicker abstracts entry. At a abstruse level, barter accept back been able to define, customize, and administer their web pages and web UI configuration, thereby simplifying the configuration, maintenance, and amplification of appliance web sites. Further, improved, added adjustable accession and agreement options acquiesce barter to acclimate the appliance to accommodated their alteration requirements.
The appliance is attainable to added programs by appliance the adeptness and adaptability of affiliation via Web casework (see Understanding SOA, Web Services, BPM, BPEL, and More). XML is acclimated for abstracts mapping and action definitions to Web services, bequest systems, and databases, or to any added third affair system. Again, this brings us to the important adeptness of leveraging absolute applications (that is, a appearance and the abstraction of the abstracts from several disparate antecedent systems), such as adjustment administration systems, barn administration systems (WMSs), account masters, bell-ringer masters, etc., and accumulation them on a individual screen, appropriately aspersing acceptable hard-coded affiliation costs.
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