Industry Extranet

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Extranet Features

Primarily, the Industry extranet provides stakeholders with the ability to conduct forums and provide updates/offerings on products (detail pages) with stock status, allocations, and pricing.

Forums should be open(i.e. Winery may want to post a message to all stakeholders like "how are customers reacting to this wine", or "how are customers reacting to our new package?") or closed (message to winery sales staff "what kind of discount do we need to consider on our Chardonnay in order to sell 1,000 cases next month?"

Product offerings over the extranet could also be available to all stakeholders: "here is new release info on our 1998 Chardonnay" (no prices or allocations attached). Or updates could be available only to certain stakeholders ("Here is our new release info on the 1998 Chardonnay with wholesale pricing.") Eventually, the product update function will be the mechanism for b-b commerce.

Stakeholders must be able to forward product offerings with product data which is drawn from the database, essentially a detail page which may include stock status, allocations and pricing (stakeholder will change these depending upon the constituency--i.e. winery's wholesale price to a distributor will be different than the price the distributor is selling the winery's product to the retailer)

Each stakeholder will invite their constituency to join the extranet with some sort of secure access mechanism. Question: where will their constituency retrieve these messages? in their organizer?

Below, find all stakeholders for each tier:

If Winery Extranet, limited access messages should be sent to the following stakeholders: --Winery staff --Distributors --Distributors Sales Reps --Restaurants --Wine Stewards (sommeliers) --Stores --Consumers as provided by Stores --Consumers as provided by purchase history (customers who have purchased winery's product and liked it or recommended it)

Winery Sales Employee --Distributors --Distributors Sales Reps --Restaurants --Wine Stewards (sommeliers) --Stores --Consumers as provided by Stores --Consumers as provided by purchase history (customers who have purchased winery's product and liked it or recommended it)

Importer Extranet --Importer Staff --Suppliers (wineries) --Distributors --Distributors --Distributors Sales Reps --Restaurants --Wine Stewards (sommeliers) --Stores --Consumers as provided by Stores --Consumers as provided by purchase history (customers who have purchased importer's product and liked it or recommended it--this will only be valid if importer's catalog is in the database)

Importer Salesperson Extranet

--Distributors --Distributors --Distributors Sales Reps --Restaurants --Wine Stewards (sommeliers) --Stores --Consumers as provided by Stores --Consumers as provided by purchase history (customers who have purchased importer's product and liked it or recommended it--this will only be valid if importer's catalog is in the database)

Distributor Extranet --Distributor Staff --Suppliers (wineries or importers) --Restaurants --Wine Stewards (sommeliers) --Stores

Distributor Salesperson Extranet

--Restaurants --Wine Stewards (sommeliers) --Stores

Restaurant Extranet --Suppliers (Distributors, Importers, Wineries) --Customers

Store Extranet --Store Staff --Suppliers (Distributors, Importers, Wineries) --Store Customers --Store Customers by purchase history (those who have bought a certain amount of wine, wines from a certain region, from a certain vintage, a specific wine)

Store Staff Extranet -- Customers -- Customers by purchase history (those who have bought a certain amount of wine, wines from a certain region, from a certain vintage, a specific wine)

-- Anonymous, September 04, 1999


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