Using EDH one can :
- Purchase any of 16,000 standardized items from the
CERN Stores Catalogue
- Make a purchase requisition that will be processed
and transmitted to any of CERN's 20,000 suppliers
- Make a purchase requisition for any new supplier
in the world.
- Request for the importing or exporting of goods
- Request to attend a course from our on-site training
catalogue.
- Request to attend external training, conference
or other event
- Request and plan your vacations.
- Plan an absence schedule for part time absences
- Request overtime compensation.
- Request additional human resources for a project
or activity
- Request access to specific parts of the CERN site
- Request an automatic callback service from IT division
- Request a portable telephone & subscription
- Request for an alarm to be disabled in order to
carry out work
- Request access to the tunnel
- Request for the recharging of goods/services between
departments
- Ensure Flammable Gas is verified by the appropriate
flammable gas safety officers
- Ensure Chemicals are verified by the Safety Group
- Ensure Radioactive procedures and inspections are
enforced where applicable
- Enforce the organisations financial rules and regulations
- Ensure safety procedures are enforced
- Apply project specific procedures (e.g. for LHC
construction)
- Ensure purchases of certain materials are verified
by material specialists (e.g. for civil engineering)
- Enforce local departmental rules and procedures
when defined
- Apply localised supevisory rules for small work-groups
and teams
- Inform the Fire Brigade for any safety related issues
- Communicate to any of the corporate applications
as required
- Ensure the fastest possible route for an electronic
business procedure
The above procedures cover most of the large
administrative areas resulting in electronic-forms only
(i.e. no paper forms are used any longer for the above
procedures). This equals approximately 100,000 electronic
forms a year. Other smaller, low-volume procedures are
also under consideration for integration into EDH. EDH
understands the organization's structure, roles and responsibilities
and may hence use this knowledge to streamline procedures
even further. For example, EDH will never send a document
to somebody who is absent. If a person does not sign a
document within a given timeframe, then the document may
automatically be routed to a deputy or somebody else with
equivalent responsibilities in that domain. The net result
is a streamlining and standardization of procedures across
the organization meaning that the average processing time
of an e-document is less than a few hours compared with
days if not weeks for the previous paper version.
