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 implementation require lots of work both at IT and Lines of business levels, leaving less resources available for essential components such as B2B collaboration.
InterTrade’s Managed Services offering is perfectly well adapted to help companies solve this problem, by allowing them full flexibility in outsourcing the supply chain integration technical infrastructure, some specialized processes like trading partner on-boarding or their complete B2B integration project. By using the on-demand TradeLinks platform and with the help of the experienced B2B consultants from InterTrade, corporations can make sure that they execute their B2B integration projects faster, minimize the risk, reduce the internal complexity and obtain the targeted benefits quicker.
InterTrade’s TradeLinks B2B integration solution is comprised of independent application services that work together to support the Provisioning of trading partners, the Secure Transportation of transactions, the Transformation of business documents, the Management of interactions with trading partners and the Visibility into the result and content of exchanges with suppliers, customers and partners.
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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. For example, ecCatalogue is a robust Product Data Synchronization environment supporting simultaneously multiple methods of data integration: EDI X.12 832 catalog transactions, Excel files, a Web portal and real-time data messaging. For companies unable to use standard EDI transactions with all their trading partners, customer facing or supplier facing InterTrade Web portals allow to all companies, regardless of their size or technical sophistication, to participate in the business workflows. By using the innovative InterTrade’s ecConnect and ecView tools, companies realize the benefit of unparalleled business process and transaction visibility.
InterTrade takes on the task of implementing, operating, maintaining and optimizing the entire infrastructure and services needed to run your B2B electronic trading relationships. With InterTrade Managed Services, you run your business, while we manage your eBusiness conversations.
