eCommerce made safe and easy

The ECN Group is New Zealand’slargest and most trusted B2B messaging companies, providing outsourced B2B messaging solutions to the New Zealand market since 1996.

We provide you and your trading partners with cost effective and secure means of doing business electronically by automating the exchange of transactional information between all types of systems, and across all network boundaries. As well as B2B, ECN also provide BPM and EAI solutions.

How e-trading works

You have established a strong partnership arrangement with a supplier and wish to initiate electronic trading exchanging Purchase Orders and Invoices.

The problem…how to get your two different systems to talk to one another? 

Instead of building expensive translation and message handling tools, you can send the files to ECN. This can be as simple as attaching a Purchase Order to an e-mail. 

ECN validates, translates and dispatches them in a compatible format - ensuring that messages are received and processed successfully. 

You relax safe in the knowledge that key documents are being transacted between systems by messaging professionals.

The ECN Group will deliver more complex solutions – it all depends on your integration capability and specific requirements – be they secure Web Services, synchronous messaging, VPN or Frame Relay connectivity, XML/SOAP or high grade tamper proof security.

We have the expertise to understand your unique challenges and design a cost effective solution that meets your specific requirements. 

We also lead the way in research and proving of new product offerings, techniques and architectures. The ECN Group – your best practice messaging partner making eCommerce safe and easy.


Why use us?

By using our hosted services to manage your external integration challenges, you negate the need to invest in expensive translation software and ongoing consultancy services. The size of our online trading community means that you can quickly start doing business electronically with your additional trading partners. The chances are we are already handling the file types you need. You are able to realise the huge benefits of B2B e-commerce, without having to go through the pain and expense of overhauling your internal systems. With ECN you get

  • A Market leader in B2B messaging technology and solutions
  • Assured, secure message delivery
  • Any to any translation
  • No client side software to purchase or install
  • Web-based SME option (ECN PINS™) for smaller suppliers
  • Hosted at our high spec facilities with comprehensive security and disaster recovery protection
  • Full 24x7 service support

 

B2B is just one aspect of the ECN Group’s solution set.  ECN offers a convergence of BPM, B2B and EAI as an integrated solution set that together mobilise information in your organisation. Our full set of capabilities is outlined below:

Best Practice Integration, Business Process Management and Messaging Solutions

"Integrating your Systems, Processes and Partners"

The ECN Group is dedicated to providing solutions that enable you to electronically manage and exchange information flows across your organisation, partners and communities of interest.

Others can provide parts of the solution; ECN provides them all…

ECN is able to deliver a unique range of solutions in key areas of eBusiness:

  • B2B Messaging Solutions – eBusiness communication with partners
  • Business Process Management – process collaboration using Singularity® on-line
  • Application Integration – provisioning legacy information flows

Individually, these solutions mobilise information in your organisation – together they allow organisations to move toward the goal of optimised productivity and maximised profit.


The ECN Group provides innovative and proven solutions:

B2B Messaging

  • Electronic data exchange of transactions between all systems, file types and network boundaries
  • Low cost entry via ECN's Managed Service
  • Establishment of vertical trading communities for easy engagement

Business Process Management (BPM)

  • Award winning BPM engine Singularity® – the web-based process management tool which allows on-line collaboration between participants
  • Effective business process optimisation to eliminate unnecessary overheads and increase efficiencies

Application Integration (EAI)

  • Implementation of leading edge IBM MQ Websphere®  and Microsoft BizTalk® technologies
  • Real time integration to batch process file transfer services
  • Outsourced solutions on a managed service basis

The ECN Group partners with you for a complete solution:

  • Effective delivery methodologies including Rational, RUP, Xtreme and Agile programming
  • Experienced project managers keeping your project within quality, cost and time constraints
  • 24x7 helpdesk and technical support
  • Stability, track record and support from parent company New Zealand Post



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contact us today with no obligation…

Phone
09 912 2200 or
04 914 1350

Email contact_us@ecngroup.co.nz

Web  
www.ECNgroup.co.nz

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Case Studies

3M cuts document re-keying with The ECN Group
It’s just become a lot simpler to do business with 3M in New Zealand. All eight divisions are now able to process sales orders and invoices electronically using The ECN Group's third party messaging service... READ MORE >

e-Procurement axes faxes at Health Board
Canterbury District Health Board is rolling out a low cost but highly effective e-procurement system from ECN to keep track of purchase orders and put an end to laborious manual faxing... READ MORE >

Knocking off the paper mountain
Faxing thousands of orders a day is tiresome, insecure – and prone to errors. When retailer Smiths City needed to rethink the way it dispatched purchase orders to suppliers, it turned to The ECN Group and IBM MQSeries for a simple cost-effective solution… READ MORE >

Mitre 10's on the nail with ECN
Ever wondered how your local Mitre 10, PlaceMakers or Carters stores always manage to have stock of every nut, bolt or widget you could possibly imagine? The answer has a lot to do with the hardware business in New Zealand leading the way in efficient supply chain integration & electronic document exchange. David McNickel investigates how The ECN Group is helping to e-enable entire industry sectors… READ MORE >

NZ Post feels the viibe
NZ Post has used the Viibe business process management tool to completely overhaul its international bulk mail lodgements business. Smart internet-based information systems have shelved paper and empowered Post's supply chain partners - increasing profitability and dramatically improving work processes... READ MORE >

Housing New Zealand gets real-time lending visibility with Viibe
A Housing New Zealand rural loan scheme process that had the potential to be a “complete nightmare” has resulted in success thanks largely to a business process management system named Viibe... READ MORE >

B2B e-business by the book at Whitcoulls
With the trans-Tasman labour market tighter than ever, Whitcoulls has managed to save on eighteen extra staff handling 250,000 invoices every year using The ECN Group’s B2B document exchange solution... READ MORE >

The ECN Group opens Trans-Tasman B2B portal
Faxed purchase orders, invoices and complex EDI with multiple supplier systems can be a thing of the past with The ECN Group's Supplier Portal - already in use by Coles Myer, Toyota and Konica Minolta across the ditch and now available here... READ MORE >

Customs e-nabling New Zealand's international trade
With Export Year 2007 upon us, it's timely to focus on a business-to-business document exchange solution that's making the New Zealand Customs Service one of the most efficient in the world... READ MORE >

Ballantynes plugs in suppliers with ECN
When an iconic South Island department store chain needed to radically overhaul its procurement procedures, it turned to ECN Group for a solution which is making life easier both for the Retailer and its Suppliers... READ MORE >

1-Stop cuts down the stops across the logistics industry
A technology joint-venture between two major Australian stevedoring operators has radically improved freight handling across Australia’s port network and beyond... READ MORE >

Woolworths suppliers check out ECN's network
Woolworths’ expansion into the New Zealand grocery market has led to B2B e-commerce enhancements that are benefiting both the retailer and its suppliers... READ MORE >

MAF streamlines import processes with ECN’s electronic messaging
The import certification process has become significantly more efficient for all parties following implementation of ECN’s trade messaging solution... READ MORE >

Enterprise Reverse Logistics adds up to many happy returns for Philips
With ECN’s innovative web-based ERL solution, Philips now has a more effective and cost-efficient method for handling returned goods... READ MORE >

Reverse logistics seminar: slashing the cost - and hassle - of returns
First-ever NZ seminar aims to explore how to cut time wasted on returns and turn customers’ faulty goods aggro into a positive exchange... READ MORE >

ECN Converts 50% Of Progressive/Woolworths' NZ Partners To e-Business
The major grocery group engaged ECN to ‘educate’ its 943 NZ Trade Partners of the benefits of switching to EDI and webforms – 48% did so in just 3 months, with more to follow… READ MORE >

Dairy company opens tap on electronic ordering
Fonterra Brands has created an electronic product catalogue to meet the requirements of major customer Foodstuffs, turning the valve on for eCommerce with partners globally… READ MORE >

Pfizer finds right EDI medicine
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer has implemented a web-based ordering system, ECN PIND, that extends the benefits of e-commerce to customers too small to justify full-blown EDI... READ MORE >

Panasonic gets smart solution for product returns
Panasonic required an alternative solution to the paper-based process of handling product returns, which was causing problems for their warehouse staff, finance department, retailers and consumers… READ MORE >
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