Supplier Onboarding and Collaboration Solutions

Build smarter supplier relationships

Reduce the time, cost and risk associated with qualifying, validating and managing new suppliers with permissioned access to a shared view of information and an immutable audit trail built on blockchain. IBM makes it easy to collaborate to resolve disruptions, drive efficiencies and increase supplier satisfaction for critical order-to-cash and procure-to-pay transactions with our global business network and supplier collaboration solutions. Embedded AI capabilities, like anomaly detection, cycle time prediction and next-best action recommendations, enable you to respond to supplier issues quickly — even in times of crisis.

Benefits

Streamlined supplier onboarding

Accelerate supplier onboarding with quick access to validated supplier data on the IBM Blockchain Platform.

Enhanced supplier integration and collaboration

Digitize and automate B2B transactions across all suppliers to increase efficiency and productivity and reduce costs.

Improved disruption mitigation

Lower the frequency and intensity of disruptions with AI that identifies anomalies in transaction data and provides real-time insights that predict future events.

Improve supplier collaboration with key offerings from IBM and our partners

B2B transaction visibility

Get visibility into B2B transaction lifecycles, in real time and in context. Understand the performance of order-to-cash and purchase-to-pay processes with embedded AI that provides actionable insights. And securely extend visibility to suppliers across your multi-enterprise ecosystem with blockchain capabilities that build trust and transparency.

Explore IBM Sterling Business Transaction Intelligence

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Supplier management

Drive supply chain agility by modernizing procurement operations. This blockchain network provides permissioned access to pre-verified supplier information and is built to accelerate supplier onboarding, simplify management and reduce risk.

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Supply chain collaboration

Enable frictionless connectivity and collaboration with suppliers and quickly engage with 800,000 preconnected trading partners to increase efficiencies and reduce costs.

Explore IBM Sterling Supply Chain Business Network

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Supplier collaboration case studies

Petco improves supplier collaboration

Hear how IBM Sterling Supply Chain Business Network keeps Petco’s supply chain running smoothly with real-time AI insights and end-to-end visibility into transactions and disruptions.

Watch the Petco story (01:57)