You can’t build a smarter supply chain on manual processes

Approximately two-thirds of companies still use email, phone, fax and postal mail for exchanging B2B transactions with at least 30% of their business partners, according to the Aberdeen Survey sponsored by IBM, "Manual Documents Processing Pain Points."   IBM Sterling Transaction Manager provides a user-friendly web portal that automates manual B2B transactions. This helps save time and money by reducing errors, cutting costs, and improving customer satisfaction with non-EDI suppliers, customers and other trading partners. This secure solution delivers a customizable B2B transaction management platform to easily digitize B2B transactions, onboard new partners, and foster deep visibility across B2B transaction lifecycles.   Product options

• IBM Sterling Supplier Transaction Manager: Create and exchange B2B documents (PO, POA, ASN, invoice) with your non-EDI-enabled suppliers through a security-rich, customizable website
• IBM Sterling Customer Transaction Manager: Digitize the sales order process among non-EDI-enabled customers by automating purchase orders to back end systems. With the simple catalog interface feature, you can build a single seller B2B site or a multi-vendor marketing place with ease

Features

• **EDI standards compliance: **Benefit from user-friendly web portals and any-to-any data file translation services to easily comply with EDI standards without needing EDI expertise.
• **Document choreography: **Ensure compliance with established business rules and processes by enforcing document choreography at document and process levels.
• **Direct upload and download: **Upload and download large Excel files directly through a web application and have the data validated according to your rules in real time.
• **Visibility tools: **Gain access to IBM Sterling Business Transaction Intelligence Basic – AI-embedded visibility tools.
• **Multiple language support: **Support multiple languages, including English, German, French, Spanish and Chinese.
• **Labels: **Use pre-formatted labels, including GS1 MH-10 labels and branded consumer dropship labels, for e-commerce orders.
• **Cost sharing: **Share the cost of eliminating manual processes with your suppliers.