Explore IBM Sterling Supply Chain Business Network Editions
IBM Sterling Supply Chain Business Network is a trusted, cloud-based business network that enables you to streamline connectivity with trading partners across your supply chain by digitizing and automating B2B transactions. There are three editions available — Essential, Standard and Premium — and each one builds upon the previous version.
Key benefits:
335% three-year ROI
41% faster to onboard new partners
77% more efficient IT support of B2B and supply chain platforms
IBM Sterling Supply Chain Business Network Essential
Modernize your B2B connectivity
Replace outdated B2B solutions
Reduce manual processes
Accelerate partner onboarding
Secure, cloud-based Value Added Network (VAN). Designed to make it easier to automate and digitize communications between trading partners using electronic data interchange (EDI).
- Secure connectivity to trade both EDI and non-EDI documents with your trading community
- Document-tracking visibility
- Analytics dashboards and trends
- Dynamic routing, enabling trade any entity already on the network, with no additional configuration required
- Easy configuration of new trading partners with a few clicks
- 24x7 support with access to a highly experienced support team — via phone, email and our support portal
IBM Sterling Supply Chain Business Network Standard
Gain flexibility to support trading-partner requirements, no matter how complex, across:
Industries
Government mandates
Geographies
Automates the transformation of B2B documents securely into any required data format or protocol.
- Mapping and data transformation capabilities to meet the needs of your trading partners, in addition to the routing of data
- InFlight: document visibility
- Analytics dashboards and trends
- 24x7 support with Essentials plus access to the IBM mapping team to triage requests for map changes and enhancements, resolve communications issues and establish trading partner configurations
IBM Sterling Supply Chain Business Network Premium
Outsource your B2B integration:
Designated technical experts
Improve trading partner SLAs
Support complex B2B requirements
Premium managed services with personalized support and program management
- Dedicated project executive as a technical subject matter expert into IBM Sterling
- Best practices and guidance on how SCBN can help you meet your business goals
- Proactive support with transaction process monitoring and data quality troubleshooting
- Proactive support to optimize global EDI operations and remove roadblocks
- Fast onboarding of trading partners
- Mapping experts to manage all data integration and translation tasks, perform change management, and resolve issues
- Develop and manage data exchange and flow among trading partners and systems
- Manage projects by driving and managing all aspects of a schedule including resources, deliverables and dependencies, risk mitigation, status reports, and run steering committee meetings.
Testimonials
“ Moving to the cloud was a big factor in picking IBM — [we] needed a confident partner to deliver against the timeline and consolidate our EDI network to be a supply chain business network. ”
- Journey to a simplified IT architecture and supply chain ecosystem
- Dana Incorporated
“ Our B2B transaction volume is increasing, which is good, but we’d be hard-pressed to handle the growth without Sterling Supply Chain Business Network. With our old system, we would have had to at least double the staff to support this growth. ”
- Driving Strategic Value with IBM Sterling Supply Chain Business Network
- An IDC White Paper
- Sponsored by IBM
“ Probably the biggest supply chain challenge we face is the proliferation of different standards and the failure of customers to actually adopt standards, so we have lots of customers wanting to use their own proprietary methods. ”
- Driving Strategic Value with IBM Sterling Supply Chain Business Network
- An IDC White Paper
- Sponsored by IBM