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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.
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Petco
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.
Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch, Labatt Canada, uses AI to give its business users end-to-end visibility into transaction lifecycles.
Improve supplier collaboration with key offerings from IBM and our partners
IBM Sterling Business Transaction Intelligence
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.
IBM Sterling Transaction Manager
Automate and digitize manual B2B transactions with trading partners, including smaller partners that lack the technology and expertise to support EDI transactions. This digital alternative to non-EDI-enabled partners helps you minimize errors, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction.
IBM Sterling Catalog Manager
Quickly and easily digitize manual product catalogs with confidence that product information is up-to-date and accurate. You will provide consistently better product listings and enable an enhanced digital selling experience, while seamlessly integrating data into back-end systems.
Trust Your Supplier
Drive supply chain agility with supplier onboarding that’s fast, simple and more secure. This blockchain network provides permissioned access to pre-verified supplier information to improve supplier qualification, validation, onboarding and lifecycle information management.
Engage suppliers with confidence
Simplify supplier onboarding with a digital passport built on blockchain
Learn how Anheuser Busch, Cisco, IBM and others are dramatically shortening the cycle time to onboard new suppliers.
Trust Your Supplier: Blockchain for supply chain
Find out how a cross-industry source of supplier information accelerates supplier onboarding and lifecycle management.
Anomaly detection enabled by AI
Can you spot anomalies in supplier transaction data as quickly as IBM Business Transaction Intelligence?
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