Frictionless connectivity, scalability and insights

Formerly known as IBM Sterling® Supply Chain Business Network, IBM Sterling® B2B Integration SaaS is part of the IBM Sterling® Data Exchange portfolio of solutions. It is a cloud-based platform that offers:

• Efficient data exchange with customers, suppliers, distributors and trading partners.
• Support for electronic data interchange (EDI) formats and application programming interfaces (APIs).
• Real-time visibility into critical business documents like purchase orders, invoices and shipping notices.
• Automated document processing.
• Analytics and reporting tools for data-driven decision-making.

With IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS, users can connect seamlessly with existing systems and applications, achieve data security and compliance with industry requirements and meet demanding service level agreement requirements.

Benefits

• **Simplified connections: **The platform enables rapid onboarding and connection with new customers and partners, offering access to more than 3.1 million businesses in our network. Integrating API and EDI connections on the same platform significantly simplifies your B2B operations.
• **Visibility: **Natural language AI queries give business users clear visibility into data and transaction status. The platform's customizable automated alerts allow your business to efficiently manage by exception, which saves time.
• **Partner management: **In the Premium edition's managed service option, IBM handles the onboarding and maintenance of customer and partner connections, allowing you to concentrate on your business operations.
• **Flexibility: **The platform's IBM-managed or self-service options offer the flexibility to customize the system, so you can align it with your IT resources and needs.
• **Resiliency: **As a SaaS offering, the system helps ensure that modernization is continuously integrated. IBM keeps your operations up-to-date with the latest in security protections, scalability, and reliability features.
• **Transparency: **Provide goods-specific transparency across multiple supply chain partners, enabling analytics by company, location, product movement and condition.