Activa

Site	Activa
Industry	E-Commerce
Location	Czech Republic
Provided by	Core Net Solutions
Contact	Tomas Svoboda

Core Net Solutions has delivered a Plone-based solution to Activa, a big office supplies vendor in the Czech Republic.

Problem:
Activa is one of the major vendors of office supplies in the Czech Republic .
Core Net Solutions has been delivering B2C solutions to Activa since 1999.

The annual turnover of Activa online shop exceeds 750 million CZK (approx. 35 million USD)and the amount of invoices issued daily is in the thousands. Issuing such huge numbers of invoices and posting them every day cost Activa a lot of effort, human resources and money. A decision to issue electronic invoices only has been made during the second half of 2006 with the start date set at 1. January 2007.


Solution:
SafeShare server (a Plone-based product by Core Net Solutions) has been selected as a framework to build the solution.
All orders are stored in Microsoft Navision ERP. They can be generated automatically from the electronic shop or typed-in manually by operators at a call center. From Navision, they are transferred using XML (RPC) to SafeShare Server, where an electronically-signed PDF with invoice is generated. After going through predefined workflow, the invoice is automatically sent by e-mail to the customer. The delivery status of every invoice is trackable and manual resending is possible.

Conclusion:
The solution developed by Core Net Solutions is helping Activa save costs on postal services and human resources. Digital archive of issued invoices is accessible to operators to easily track individual orders.

Thanks to very good experience with SafeShare Server (i.e. Plone), Activa has decided to get their internal company portal built using the same technology. The project is currently undergoing development and it's aim is to simplify internal communications and electronic document exchange.

More screenshots: http://corenet-int.com/references/activa/einvoices-screenshots