The Commodity Procurement System (CPS) Portal provides secure web-based services to clients of the system. Integrated with Biwer’s flagship “CPS”, the portal acts as an access point for the information and business logic configured within the application. This provides users, other applications, or other businesses access to authorized, real-time data, and enabling a wide range of workflow related interaction. Typically, CPS enables the procurement workflow - managing growers, harvest receipts, value calculations for payment, etc… Because CPS is the system of record for this data, it has become increasingly critical to share information along the supply chain, requiring a service oriented approach to application interaction. The CPS Portal provides that access point for authorized users. While the Portal is integrated with CPS, it can also share information from other systems. Built over a Tomcat Application Server, the portal can access any JDBC enabled database as a data-source. Let’s say that inventory information exists in one application, order information in another, and grower estimates in CPS. The portal can be used as a dashboard to bring together these three points of data. |