Introduction
The Electronic
Commerce Resource Center (ECRC) located in Kitsap County, Bremerton,
WA, is a prominent regional business resource. It serves a region
of 8 Northwest states: Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming,
Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The ECRC provides assistance
primarily to small and medium size businesses, government, large
companies, and education and training providers, to encourage
their use of information technologies and electronic commerce.
The ECRC provides services through Outreach, Education & Training,
and Technical Support Activities. Most of these services are free
to organizations throughout the 8-state region.
The
ECRC is linked to a well-established national network of technology
expertise. It is operated by Concurrent Technologies Corporation
(CTC)
from
Johnstown, PA, The Economic Development Council (EDC)
of Kitsap County, and
Olympic
College in Bremerton, WA.
Mission
& Services
The ECRC mission
is to assist in understanding and implementing electronic commerce
practices. These practices range from e-mail to buying and selling,
to full integration of design, manufacturing, finance, inventory
control, distribution and maintenance.
The
facility in Bremerton, WA offers technology demonstrations and training seminars.
Services include outreach
seminars, conferences, and technical support.
The ECRC has separate contracts (delivery
orders) with the federal government or work in progress. A
visit to Bremerton will provide you with access to experts and
view how to exchange information electronically among your trading
partners.
Ask
about the capability to seek and respond to request for bids,
find and qualify suppliers, collaborative product design, complete
financial transactions, and research technical and business issues.
The Center's leadership consists of experienced business and process
engineers and managers who are skilled in analysis, problem solving,
planning, and implementation.
The
purpose of the Center is to accelerate the use of electronic commerce.
Without a significant commitment to U.S. competitiveness we will
fall behind the rest of the world, thus decreasing our job base
in quality and quantity. This philosophy embraces an agenda and
a commitment to continuous improvement to prosper in the competitive
environment of the global economy.
The
Electronic Commerce Resource Center will only accomplish its goals
through coalescing and networking with other valuable regional
and national resources. The business and technology requirements
of our clients are paramount in designing solutions to meet the
quest for competitive advantage. If you are not in front of the
pack, are you falling behind_ How do you measure up_
Adoption
of fully integrated electronic commerce is a strategy that offers
huge advantages to businesses and government. Mastering appropriate
business processes and technology will improve your ability to
compete. The market is rapidly changing. Increasingly, integrated
communication between trading partners (your customer, seller,
banker, engineer, suppliers, etc.) is being requested or demanded.
Just as the personal computer and the fax machine have become
business staples, so will additional electronic commerce technologies.
Modems and EDI software to send and receive data, images and drawings
are basic requirements in today's market. The better you are able
to communicate with those you do business with the more business
you will have.
Working
smarter, not harder, typifies the Electronic Commerce Resource
Center's goal to assist industry and government in adopting technologies
within their operations that will improve efficiency, increase
quality, reduce time, and lower costs. You can achieve enormous
savings through the ability to enter data only once, share it,
and use it many times. Only partial benefits are realized through
your ability to communicate electronically if your trading partners
are unable to communicate with you. Documents transmitted in hard
copy, which must be re-keyed, is money wasted. To optimize the
benefits from an electronic commerce strategy, improve your capabilities
and integrate and match up capabilities with those of your trading
partners. Call us to start today for seminars, courses, consultation
or technical support.
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