greatest value comes from the access to the information by the field salesforce. This access has reduced errors, increased incremental sales and decreased order-processing time.

E-Markets NetOrder^SM input management system is the B2B system used by Manufacturers and distributors to better manage their supply chain. The benefits of NetOrder use are:

• Capturing preseason wholesale order intentions resulting better production forecasting.
• Inventory can be allocated by region or customer, resulting in the product being in the right place for distribution.
• Show inventory to retailers resulting in higher customer satisfaction.
• Transition intentions into orders resulting in fewer ordering errors.
• Pull orders from AgOrder to facilitate farmer promotions resulting in lower cost of managing promotions and improved customer information.
• Eliminate EDI costs or integrate order information to EDI VAN if desired.
• Customized to your company's brand and business logic.
• Integrate into company's internal ERP for decreased processing costs.

• Capturing Order intentions and orders in a digital environment in order to pass that information to others in the Supply Chain.
• Creating a direct line of communication with their customers through a communicate function.
• Expand their business to enhance revenue by becoming part of the direct marketing channel.
• Manage sales history and customer order activity.
• The system meets the multiple pricing and discounting requirements of Ag Retailers.

E-Markets order management applications enable participants to improve and remake the order and purchase process through capture of demand intentions earlier in the sales cycle, communicate those intentions to those who need them in a timely and collaborative manner, and to drive capacity utilization based upon demand.

E-Markets first deployed its order management application in 1998. Over $500 million in orders have been placed since then using the applications.