IBM Sterling Supply Chain Business Network
Build a smarter supply chain for tomorrow
Digital business and globalization continuously disrupt today’s business. Customers expect what they want, when and where they want it.
IBM Sterling Supply Chain Business Network provides secure, cloud-based connectivity with customers, partners, and suppliers. You can quickly engage with more than 800,000 preconnected trading partners to onboard in hours or days, not weeks.
AI provides real-time intelligence and recommendations to get ahead of supply chain transaction issues to ensure orders are delivered on time. Blockchain empowers transparency and trust with multi-party visibility of digital events across your supply chain.
Faster, more informed decisions
Realize value from AI and blockchain that deepens visibility into B2B transaction lifecycles so you can make faster more informed decisions
Frictionless connectivity
Streamline connections and collaboration with partners to increase efficiencies and reduce costs
Scalable and reliable in the cloud
Leverage the cloud to deliver the demand-driven and trusted B2B integration your business requires
Key Features of IBM Sterling Supply Chain Business Network
- Anomaly detection, alerts and natural language search
- Multi-party, secure shared ledger of digital transactions
- Real-time visibility; trend analysis and dashboards
- Any-to-any connectivity
- Premium managed services
- Expanding self-service capabilities
- IBM data security best practices
- Seamless PEPPOL support for B2G and B2B trade
- e-Invoicing signature, validation and archiving
- Automation of small partner interactions
- Catalog management for product ordering
Security and privacy in the cloud
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Which option is right for you?
Free Trial
Try before you buy! Experience the capabilities of the Essentials edition free for 90 days in this cloud-based trial. Convert to a paid subscription any time.
Essentials
Get started with secure connectivity, document tracking visibility, analytics dashboards and more in the cloud.
Standard
Meet your partners' data format and standards requirements. The Standard edition offers the ability to configure document mapping/transformation in the cloud.
Premium
Let the designated resource included in the Premium edition manage your implementation, maintain your system and support ongoing services with trading partners.