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InterTrade provides innovative e-commerce solutions that allow you to better manage supply chain collaboration. We connect your enterprise to the entirety of your trading-partner community quickly and easily.

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As stated by a leading analyst firm in a recent study, electronic B2B connectivity with suppliers and customers generates compelling results. There are administrative savings such as lower transaction costs and fewer data errors. Other improvements impact key performance metrics such as reduced out-of-stocks, faster cycle times and increased customer satisfaction. You undoubtedly want to enjoy all these benefits. The first step is to connect all your trading partners.

As most B2B specialists involved in connecting a large community of vendors will tell you, there is no shortcut, no dream machine that can make it happen as if by magic. There are technical as well as business challenges. Every one of your trading partners manages its business in its own way using its own IT applications. You need to synchronize these business processes as well as the actual data flow between all these stakeholders and across all these systems.

Creating the appropriate environment for the exchange of data files between all systems and making sure that all business requirements are taken into account – this is what differentiates InterTrade from other players. Our expertise coupled with our ability to understand your business processes bring special value to the exercise of establishing a B2B platform that works smoothly between all your trading partners. We also excel at communicating all the details of your B2B program to your trading partners and we make sure that everyone involved is ready for the go-live date.

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Recent studies by leading analyst firms have shown that standard EDI transactions represent between 85% and 90% of total B2B transaction volume, growing at 4% per year. As one study explains, “EDI will continue to be the primary type of B2B interaction for many years to come.”

In this context, the InterTrade value proposition of managing all B2B communications under a common umbrella shines. It allows InterTrade customers to radically reduce complexity and total communication costs while improving visibility on transaction delivery for all trading partners, regardless of the communication protocol used.

The InterTrade TradeLinks communication platform centralizes delivery of business documents for all standard B2B protocols – VAN, AS2, FTP, Web services and more. Communication between your internal application and our data center can all be tunneled through the fully automated ecConnect software, providing secure and reliable unattended communications using the Internet.

InterTrade has been a Tier-1 interconnected VAN since 2001. This provides its clients with full visibility on the delivery of their business-critical documents, including inter-Van mailbag delivery. Furthermore, the documents exchanged through VAN interconnects do not carry any additional charge.

The TradeLinks platform also supports all standard Internet-based B2B protocols such as AS2, allowing InterTrade customers to benefit from full AS2 on-demand connectivity or AS2 brokerage services.

B2B Integration Services

In today’s economy, companies not only have to build and implement an effective supply chain, but also have to improve coordination and collaboration among supply chain partners. Typical examples are corporations applying lean principles to their supply chain by implementing processes such as Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), Direct Shipment, Cross Docking, or Integrated Inventory Management. Such implementations require a lot of work both at the IT level and the lines-of-business level, thereby reducing resources available for essential components such as B2B collaboration.

The InterTrade B2B Integration Services offering is perfectly well adapted to help companies solve this problem. InterTrade takes on the task of implementing, operating, maintaining and optimizing the entire infrastructure and services needed to run your B2B electronic-trading relationships.

The InterTrade TradeLinks platform provides a complete set of tools to enable any-to-any integration for all of your business applications with all of your trading partners. It supports formats such as ANSI X.12, EDIFACT, XML, SAP IDOC, Oracle EDI Gateway flat files, CSV, fixed length and more.

Let us enable your environment for high performance eBusiness conversations.

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