Enterprise management system MBF (Market Builder Framework)

MBF is a web based enterprise management system, which covers a wide range of business needs and is designed for large and medium-sized companies and government institutions with vast and distributed business-structure.

MBF provides the tools for finance management, logistics, marketing, on-line B2B operations, etc. The software enables users reviewing current information, editing catalogs of available products, tracing and managing supply and demand, prices, discounts and bonuses, predicting stocks status and managing orders.

The application is flexible and intelligible and can be configured to fit diverse requirements of various businesses. The data structure is based on XML to enable users describing any business-logics.

Basic MBF components:

• Workflow Engine
• Catalog Management
• Stock Management
• Document Management
• Order Flow/Order Entering
• Calculation Management
• Contract Management
• Role/Structure Management
• Scheduling
• Interfacing

The modules of MBF could be integrated into the information infrastructure of the company and work with the majority of well-known business systems, such as SAP, JD Edwards, etc.

As a platform MBF uses Windows 2000 or Windows XP (Windows 2003 Server) and MS SQL Server 2000 as data storage. User interface layer is based on IIS 5.0 or 5.1. All the ASP pages are developed in jscript using XSL data transformation.

Advantages of MBF:

• Easy configuration of components according to customer needs;
• Integration with external systems like ERP, SCM etc.;
• Core components work on Windows 2000/2003 Server platforms.;
• Pluggable components can be designed to extend or tune MBF functionality;
• Multilingual support;
• Customizable "look and feel".

Summary of the project

Expertise domain: enterprise management

Technologies used:

• Visual C++
• COM+
• MSMQ
• XML

Project scale: 24 man-hours

Clients: Goverment Joint Stock Company "Khlib Ukrainy", Ukraine