______Netscape Scores With Ford As E-Commerce Vendor_______
Netscape Communications will announce this week that TNT
Logistics is using its ECXpert software for translating EDI
to the Web to manage supply of replacement parts for Ford
Motor Corp. Separately, Visteon, a Ford subsidiary that
provides automobile components, expects to announce later
this summer it will use ECXpert for an extranet linking it
with suppliers.
TNT is conducting a pilot with Ford in which the automaker
hands off EDI files that TNT translates and sends over the
Web to parts suppliers and trucking companies. "We're using
ECXpert as a communication gateway to communicate with our
customers and our customers' customers," says Norm Paget,
project manager at TNT, a subsidiary of TNT Post Group, a
logistics firm in Amsterdam. Ford's logistics system, slated
to go live early next year, has been tested with 250
concurrent users; TNT plans to include 1,800 suppliers and
58 transportation companies.
Last week, Netscape announced John Hancock as one of its
biggest customers for its BuyerXpert procurement software.
BuyerXpert and ECXpert are two of the five products in
Netscape's CommerceXpert line, which provides the core
functions of order management, billing, and cataloging.
-- Gregory Dalton with Clinton Wilder |
