B2B Consolidation

When your company chooses to consolidate B2B, the cost savings go beyond software and hardware. In fact, B2B enablement can help improve efficiencies and maximize resources throughout your entire company—staffing, IT maintenance, and the ongoing costs and challenges of change management—and these benefits extend throughout your entire supply chain.

Some of the immediate benefits of B2B consolidation via Crossgate’s Business-Ready Network, include:
 
COST REDUCTION
Trying to connect with all of your trading partners on an individual basis, using a variety of technologies is like buying 50 mP3 players to listen to 50 different songs. Crossgate’s B2B integration acts as a universal interface between you and your trading partners, so instead of spending endless dollars on software and hardware just to transact business you simply connect with Crossgate once. And since we maintain the network, your organization can focus on optimizing your business rather than growing your IT infrastructure.

STAFFING REDEPLOYMENT
With existing EDI, companies require extra staff to keep maps working, track data quality issues, and work with network partners on a daily basis. Many organizations need 1–4 people per region and with a changing global business landscape, comes the requirement for additional staff to enable new partners.

With Crossgate’s B2B integration, you can redeploy your staff and resources to focus on mission critical projects rather than mapping maintenance.

SIMPLIFY B2B ENABLEMENT
There’s no doubt: connecting with partners using in-house middleware is time-consuming and costly. It can take up to 37 days to automate a partner and as much as $15,000 to integrate one partner process. Most companies have less than 20% of their business network automated, leaving 80% paper-based.

The inefficiencies caused by paper-based transactions have effects far reaching, up and down the supply chain:

• Customer service departments are bogged down by inefficient processes, with many spending over half their time responding to calls and e-mails from customers checking on the status of an order or complaining about late delivery. 
• Purchasing departments cannot change quickly because enablement becomes a roadblock.
• Supply chain executives cannot reduce inventory on hand because manual processes interfere with the ability to predict consumer demand and supplier capability leaving a lot of cash tied up in safety stock.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Instead of a confusing variety of interfaces and technologies that must be adapted every time your organization or partner makes a business change, you only have one simple, connection with Crossgate. By providing a universal interface that separates your IT systems from your trading partners, you can easily adapt your business processes without disrupting your trading partner community.