Programmers and engineers may particularly find such collaboration useful. Describe the uses of intranets for electronic business in sales and marketing, human resources, finance and accounting, and manufacturing. Further, the intranet can serve as a corporate memory of customer and product problems. Human resources to keep employees informed of company issues and policies, as well as allowing employees to check their own records. Further, job postings and internal job information can be made available to employees.
Employees can enroll in health care, benefit plans, and company training.
Financial and accounting can bring information scattered across parts of financial systems together for easier decisionmaking. Manufacturing can integrate information across the plant floors or many plants, particularly in managing work flow and process control. Extranets and the Internet allow the linking of procurement and production. Vendors and customers can share information and more easily send information such as purchase orders and invoices and production schedules. Chrysler's and Marshall's systems provide good examples of systems that track invoices, parts, and shipments of parts.