Doing business

Information on doing business with the virtual companies and how to handle internal things

Practice enterprises first market their products by different forms of marketing activities like taking part in fairs, social networking sites, company website, word of mouth etc. Out of these activities fairs are the most important one, since the companies gets the chance to promote, advertise, sell and meet the customers face to face at the same time. For trading, practice enterprises contacts other practice enterprises and customers from Finland and abroad through email, phone, company website and in person. It usually need a supplier who delivers materials, goods and services to their manufacturing process. The companies don't have any ready prices so every practice enterprise can edit prices and products to match their needs. The practice enterprise marks products and their prices to the supply company it have chosen in the learning environment. The practice enterprise can deliver products and services from supply companies immediately when it has added product and price information to the vepen learning environment. When the supply company receives the order, it will send an order confirmation, a dispatch note and an e-invoice to the practice enterprise.

Customers:Customers can be any individual or other practice enterprises from Finland and abroad. Individuals can be all the teachers and staff from school or simply a visitor in the fairs. All the practice enterprises database from all over the world can be found in vepen learning environment. Every student can login to vepen with username and password provided by the school.

Suppliers: Practice enterprises working in finland and abroad are the suppliers for each other. If there isn't a suitable supplier amongst the practice enterprise network, the supply companies working in finpec will act as suppliers and service providers who will provide necessary products/services.
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