1985

·  Electronic Trading Solution, Single Vendor, proprietary

·  OPUS (Office Products User System) developed for Sands & McDougall

1989

·  EDI Gateway

·  Developed integrated EDI gateway for Sands & McDougall. Accepts customer orders and sends Advance Shipping Notices / Invoices

1993

·  Smart Clips (Client/Server) prototype developed

·  Sands Solutions formed

·  Prototype developed and tested with potential customers

·  In-house IT arm of Sands & McDougall

1994

·  1st implementation of Smart Clips

·  Alcoa World Aluminium begin and complete implementation of Smart Clips at 9 sites in Western Australia

1995

·  Smart Clips

·  Alcoa implement Smart Clips at 2 sites in Victoria and 1 site in NSW.

1997

·  Smart iNet developed. (sell-side web based application)

·  Sands & McDougall implement Smart iNet as their Internet order solution.

1998

·  Smart Clips web version released

1999

·  1st implementation of web based Smart Clips

·  The University of Queensland begins implementation.

2000

·  Established Private Marketplace

·  Smart Clips SAP Interface released

·  Smart Clips 'Bid & Quote' module released

·  Smart Clips 'Services' module released

·  Smart iNet used as infrastructure for sell-side focused marketplace

·  Developed in conjunction with PWC using SAP Business Connector

 

·  Supports wide range of 'Services' with flexible templates for specific types of service

2001

·  Smart Clips optimised to exploit 'Collaborative Procurement Layer'

·  Smart Clips '3-way e-invoice matching' module released

·  Worlds first application designed to exploit the Collaborative Procurement Layer

·  Allows electronic matching of invoices against physically receipted goods and services

·  Smart Supplier released

·  Supplier enablement solution designed to provide and manage catalogue content to multiple buying applications or marketplaces, and ability to process received orders and transmit e-invoices back to customer

·  Smart Buyer released

·  Complementary application to Smart Supplier; allows suppliers to trade electronically with any of their customers

2002

·  Smart Supplier multilingual release

·  As well as English, now available in German, Spanish and French with the capability to easily add any additional language

·  Smart Supplier version 4.12

·  Major improvements have been made to this new release of Smart Supplier

·  Smart Supplier Certified by VeriTest for Microsoft Windows 2000

·  Independently certified as meeting Microsoft's strict program design standards. One of very few Australian developed applications to meet this level of certification

·  Sands Solutions appointed Microsoft Gold Partner

·  Smart Supplier by Subscription

·  Introduced to make supply chain enablement affordable for 100% of suppliers

·  SeComm

·  Based on Smart Supplier, SeComm was developed to provide the market with a very affordable, low cost, supply chain enablement solution for suppliers that don't need or require integration to their backend systems, a multi user system, transaction scheduling, Smart Buyer or ScanPack functionality.