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 Managing your supply chain to improve speed and efficiency is your focus. Ours is to provide you with high-performance, cost-effective and reliable B2B integration solutions that will help you reach your business goals.
To have transactions flowing between so many different IT environments is often perceived as a pure technology challenge. At InterTrade we know that these transactions are part of a complex supply chain workflow and they need to be managed as such. This is what we mean by efficient eBusiness conversations.
We deliver this capability in a simple three-step process. First we provide you with strong and reliable technology built for business critical transactions. Next we support you with an experienced team of B2B professionals who understand your industry and your business challenges. Finally we give you full visibility and control on all business-document exchanges in real time.
By using EDI, B2B integration and product-data-synchronization solutions available on demand, you will be able to stay in sync with business and market opportunities which are evolving faster than ever.
Benefit from a complete set of B2B integration tools. We make the diversity of your trading community seamless. |
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InterTrade’s B2B integration services have been engineered to be compatible with any ERP platform running on any hardware infrastructure. Whether you run your internal applications on SAP, Oracle eBusiness Suite, JD Edwards, Peoplesoft, Microsoft Dynamics, JDA, Intentia Movex, another provider’s system , some home-grown internal application or even a diverse suite of internal business applications linked together, InterTrade has helped customers with a wide range of environments, regardless of what they are composed of.
We provide the full suite of on-demand application integration services (Provision, Transport, Transform, Manage and View) giving you the choice of access in Software as a Service (SaaS) mode or as deployed software applications. InterTrade believes in giving you the choice of architecture an supports you with expertise in supply chain management to achieve your goals.
InterTrade TradeLinks Launched in 2001, the TradeLinks B2B exchange platform has been providing InterTrade clients with a full suite of on-demand application integration services. Its latest Release 4 now powers tens of thousands of trading relationships between suppliers, customers and business partners exchanging millions of transactions every month.
TradeLinks can be tailored to every client’s business-process specifics; it doesn’t stop at managing the envelopes of business documents. We also go well beyond by managing special business processes between you and your trading partner’s IT infrastructure when technical limitations impinging on the very business-process benefits that you seek require it.
The execution of all these processes has to happen day in and day out. This is why InterTrade’s infrastructure was built on two uncompromised principles – performance and reliability. We apply state-of-the-art development and operations best practices; we use top-grade hardware and fully redundant IT infrastructure and we operate geographically diverse data centers. Our reliability is your peace of mind.
EDGE As the world of digital commerce evolves, you may be faced with important decisions on how to proceed with your new or existing eBusiness practice. As your company expands, so will your number of trading partners. Many of these partners may use EDI, and some will insist you do the same.
EDGE provides small to medium sized businesses with core EDI translation capabilities to comply with your trading partner B2B requirements. EDGE is a deployed tool that you can manage on your own or have InterTrade help in setting it up. As your business gets larger, EDGE grows with you, able to handle all of your back-end EDI integration needs. [ + more details ] |
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B2B Trading Portals |
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InterTrade ecWeb Supplier Portal B2B business benefits are dependent on your trading partners’ compliance to the specifics of your business process requirements. One of the issues faced by many corporations is therefore how to deal with suppliers who do not have the same level of supply chain maturity. This is often a matter of internal IT systems, which may not be state-of the-art. Corporations sourcing from low-cost nations face this issue every day.
To help its clients’ partners reach optimal compliance level, InterTrade has developed the ecWeb Supplier Portal to complement the base TradeLinks offering. ecWeb allows vendors to receive EDI purchase orders and create PO Acknowledgements, Advanced Shipment Notices and Invoices with minimal technology infrastructure. The only requirements are a Web browser and access to the Internet.
ecWeb is more than EDI Web forms. Imposing Web forms on suppliers is usually not a winning business proposition. The success of ecWeb is based on two important components.
First, you need to recognize that your low-technology suppliers have limited internal tools to manage the business-process changes that are expected of them. ecWeb provides them with simple yet very effective Web tools configured to your business process requirements. They use it not only to send EDI documents but also to improve their supply chain performance.
The other important aspect is in the management of the on-boarding process. Implementing B2B within a community of low-tech suppliers is much more than giving them access to a Web site. The InterTrade professional services team helps its clients by planning and executing a well-thought-out change-of-procedures operation.
InterTrade ecWeb Customer Portal Most of the above comments may well also apply to your customers. Receiving purchase orders by phone, fax or email means that you need a team of customer-service representatives to type all that data and to answer customers’ inquiries about delivery date, shipping confirmations and more.
The ecWeb B2B Customer Portal allows InterTrade clients to have one unique channel to receive orders. Customers of InterTrade clients unable to implement system-to-system B2B processes can nevertheless use a Web browser and connect to ecWeb to prepare orders and visualize order or shipment status. We make it simple. |
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Product Data Synchronisation |
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Product data synchronization While EDI trading allows trading partners to exchange electronic documents together efficiently, it is often forgotten that this process starts with sharing key information, features and characteristics about the products transacted. Data synchronization is the start of a fruitful integrated relationship.
Being able to share product information between trading partners gives way to a number of benefits ranging from the reduction of out of stocks and lost sales to making sure retailers have the right products on the shelves. For vendors, data synchronization can also be a nice marketing tool, allowing them to display products to customers.
There are essentially two ways of sharing data information today. One is to use public data pools that are part of the GDSN initiative, the other relates to private catalogs. InterTrade is the only integrator on the market that allows you to use both of these methods from a single application. We know how cumbersome it is to manipulate multiple tools. Our approach is to let you use a single solution to manage all your product data and give appropriate access to each retailer, some using a data pool, some using a private catalog. Simple, efficient and affordable; these are the core benefits of InterTrade’s Data Synchronization Solution.
ecCatalogue ecCatalogue was designed with both retailers and suppliers in mind, addressing a wide variety of data-sharing options to facilitate the experience, whichever side of the equation you are on.
By using InterTrade ecCatalogue, retailers can benefit from pre-validated product data to initiate their supply chain process, information they can select with the easy-to-use interface and bring into their own systems. The main benefit of using outside help for catalogue purposes is that InterTrade also helps with the on-boarding campaign of suppliers, a task better left to experts that usually clogs internal resources availability.
From a supplier point of view, InterTrade facilitates the exercise of sharing product information through a centralized application that allows them to enrich the data they need to share with retailers. Many suppliers have various system components that house product information. InterTrade ecCatalogue helps them gather up all that data in an easy-to-use repository on which they can act to update, modify and add products as they wish with a series of easy-to-use upload possibilities.
The benefits associated with using a third-party catalogue stem from freeing up resources on both sides to validate and update information and host it in a way that is less reliant on internal resources than with a manual or interactive process. Suppliers need the help of a validation tool to make their data as perfect as possible. Retailers rely on outside help to make sure their own validation rules are enforced. InterTrade makes this possible with benefits for retailers and suppliers.
Read on about how ecCatalogue helped Neiman Marcus Group reach its data synchronization objectives and how InterTrade realized an on-boarding campaign with more than 350 vendors. [ + more details ]
Data pool – Public Catalogue Public catalogue accesses are known to be expensive and complicated to manage. Simpler and more cost effective for small to mid-size vendors, ecGDS is the way to go to share product information with retailers expecting a link to GDSN. Not only is it cheaper to use, but it also helps you manage the choreography around sharing data, opening up trading relationships and all the complex steps required to get the information across to your trading partner. Your internal resources need not become experts at understanding all the intricacies of the GDSN, nor do you need to learn multiple platforms to interconnect to various retailers. InterTrade brings access to data pools through a single solution that facilitates your data gathering and sharing whether it is for a private or public catalogues.
Retailers Access to GDSN has always proven expensive compared to some private catalogues and the number of product attributes available may appear to be limited. But if you’re a retailer facing a community of suppliers already connected to the GDSN, you may be interested by the ecGDS offering to access their product information faster. InterTrade’s pricing structure based on usage is cheaper and more appropriate than other industry models. If your internal data management process is creating more problems than it should solve, let’s talk data synchronization today!
Vendors Let InterTrade guide you in getting your act together to improve your relationships with your customers connected to the GDSN. ecGDS gives you a single point of contact to share data and get the help needed to plow through the initial process. SKU-based pricing also allows you affordable access to the data pool while benefiting from a fully integrated relationship with your large customers. Get ahead and start synchronizing!
Through partnerships and easy platform access, InterTrade has managed to make vendors’ lives easier, giving access to data pools and sharing product information using a single comprehensive solution. Try the InterTrade difference! [ + more details ] |
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ecFax (Fax to EDI) |
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ecFax Fax-to-EDI capability provides an efficient and cost-effective way to trade electronically with your fax-ready business partners, regardless of their size.
The implementation of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) has helped companies achieve tremendous benefits through the elimination of manual/paper processes. However, many companies are still dealing with a large number of inbound paper documents (i.e., orders, invoices, claims, etc.) to accommodate some of their small to medium-sized trading partners that are not EDI compliant.
The Fax-to-EDI service automatically converts information from trading partner's faxes into electronic data and then delivers this data ready for integration into your ERP or other enterprise applications. Allowing all trading partners to be handled using one single B2B process flow not only reduces business complexity but also significantly lowers supply chain management costs.
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