IBM Sterling Supply Chain Business Network

Remove friction from trading partner collaboration

Supply chain resiliency starts with a business network that handles peak events with ease and detects potential disruptions. Many IT organizations manage systems that consistently underperform, depend on manual processes and lack visibility or insights to get ahead of supply chain disruptions.

IBM Sterling Supply Chain Business Network is a security-rich, cloud-based business-to-business network that can help your organization achieve 51% more efficient management of B2B transactions, boosting overall supply chain performance. Real-time, AI-powered transaction insights with natural language search and anomaly detection enable business users to quickly and proactively mitigate disruptions.

Streamline connections and collaboration through digitization and automation tools. Gain access to over 800,00 pre-connected trading partners or onboard new partners quickly with robust self-service capabilities.

Gain 335% ROI over 3 years

Get a multi-enterprise digital business network that delivers a scalable, reliable, cloud-based infrastructure to support your growing business needs.

Learn how our clients have achieved significant results while driving innovation with trusted B2B and supply chain integration powered by AI and blockchain-enabled visibility.

• 100% uptime for your most demanding workloads

• Vastly improved transaction processing

• Faster onboarding of trading associates

• Automated manual processes

• Around-the-clock technical expert and white-glove support

Handle more B2B transactions

Manage more than twice the B2B transaction volume with the same resources.

Streamline connections and collaboration with customers, suppliers and other trading associates to reduce costs and gain efficiencies. With our business network, you get seamless and secured any-to-any frictionless connectivity.

Scale to accommodate a unique, diverse set of business translations, industry requirements and government regulations. Supported technologies include industry (X12, EDIFACT, NAESB, XML, Web Services) and government (Peppol, einvoicing, RosettaNet) requirements.

Improve your customer satisfaction ratings by 30% on average

Realize value from AI and blockchain to unravel complex EDI data into actionable insights. See a graphical view of what happened in the context of a particular order, shipment or invoice in real time.

IT and business users can investigate supply chain purchase-to-pay and order-to-cash data by using natural language search, which enables them to easily find and examine all documents to make faster, more informed decisions.