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Information Systems, Inc.
Integrating Reagent Selection, Ordering and Inventory
Management
Presented at the ACS 219th National Meeting
Joint CSA/CINF Symposium: Chemical Information and E-commerce
Charles Sullivan, David Evans, Maurizio Bronzetti
March 28, 2000
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Evolution
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Internet Information
Company Information
Company & Product Information
E-mail & contact ordering information
E-commerce
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What does e-commerce offer?
Supply-side Buy-side
Cost of doing business Cost of acquisition
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Chemical e-commerce sites
Auction sitesbulk chemicalsequipment
Outsourcing/co-opleverage buying power
Supply-side acquisition
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Which one?
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Workflow Considerations
Identify Select Order Receive Pay Dispose/Reorder
CatalogsOnlineIntranetExtranet
CallFaxOnlineOutsourceEDI
ERPInventory
ERP InventoryEDIERPCall
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Availability Issues
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Available Chemicals Directory (ACD)
906,865 products 278,093 unique chemicals 468 unique suppliers 591 catalogs Updated semi-annually Chemical Products Information (CPI) File
Custom Price Loading Tool
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Inventory System Characteristics
Registering a chemical Ability to search the inventory Tracking the movement of a container Ability to have multiple containers of the same
chemical Know the type of container Disposition of a container at the time of disposal
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What to do??
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Benefits of an inventory system
Reduced cost of doing business Satisfy compliance requirements (internal and local,
state and federal government) Provide information that can be used in knowledge
management Increase productivity Better supply-chain management Improve safety processes Save time
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SMART
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SMART Searching
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SMART Selecting
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SMART Comparing
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SMART Shopping
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SMART Shopping
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SMART Ordering
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Welcome to Reagent Selector
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Search
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FilteringFiltering
Filter on functional groups, elements, sources, cost and packet size or calculated properties
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ClusteringClustering
K-Means clustering, using MDL’s 166 Keys
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Shop Area
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Collect Area
Inventory information is accessible through the collect area
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Create Reagent Shopping ListsCreate Reagent Shopping Lists
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Custom Price Loading Tool MDL defined ‘staging DB’
format Custom Price Loading Tool
updates a ‘custom price table’ in CPI
Staging DB
CPIACD
Custom Price Loading Tool
User defined conversion Utility
SupplierPrice List
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QUESTIONS?