Automatic Sales Order Collection from A Top Indonesian Retailer's E-Procurement Website Using Selenium

The utilization of E-Procurement services is increasing rapidly over the years. This can be seen in several cases of mainstream supermarket retailers in Indonesia such as Carrefour, Hero, and Indogrosir. They will have a centralized order placing system which has been proven to provide numerous benefits. However, from the suppliers' point of view, it might be perceived as a difficulty since they are obligated to check multiple websites throughout the day. Hence, this solution is proposed to solve the suppliers' problem of being required to continuously monitor the e-procurement websites. Selenium will be used to automatically harvest sales orders data from the e-procurement website with the appropriate credentials. The data will be inserted into a database after undergoing data cleansing which will then be displayed via a User Interface. The system have been built and the testing shown 100
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success of data collection.