Ontario Power Generation

E-Business

Ontario Power Generation Supply Chain has expanded our E-Business initiative and seeks to engage suppliers in an integrated, electronic fashion and provide a flexible means to do so. 'E-Business’ processes promote a closer relationship with our suppliers allowing for improvements in the operational and administrative efficiencies for both OPG and our trading partners.

E-business is a key component in the ‘procure-to-pay’ process with Ontario Power Generation. As part of our Supply Chain strategy, we are pursuing all opportunities with suppliers to bring efficiencies to our mutual business process and enable greater transactional improvements.

As part of our E-Business enablement program at OPG, we have contracted Ariba Commerce to facilitate and to provide capability on behalf of Ontario Power Generation.

The Ariba Network connects many of the world's leading organizations with their trading partners and serves as a broad-based platform for all key business collaboration needs. It supports everything from trading partner discovery and e-procurement to e-invoicing and working capital management. The Ariba Network delivers unparalleled ROI, comprehensiveness, reach, flexibility, and value to both buyers and sellers. More than 600,000 companies, including more than half of the Fortune 500, now use Ariba to streamline and automate their collaborative business processes.

Suppliers of any size or technical competency can conduct business with OPG via the Ariba Network. This platform provides OPG a flexible, internet-based framework for conducting electronic document exchange for Purchase Orders, Advanced Shipment Notifications and Invoice transactions with preferred suppliers.

For suppliers, this E-Business platform provides a hosted application for receiving and processing orders, or suppliers may opt to integrate their back-end systems with the Ariba Supplier. For suppliers with high transaction volumes and/or those whom are technically capable, we recommend transacting with in a 'system-to-system', integrated fashion. Included here are resources for either EDI or cXML business process enabled by choosing an integrated e-business process.