Chemicals

Crossgate B2B solutions give you the most powerful tools available to facilitate EDI and Chemical Industry Standards such as CIDX between you and your chemical supply chain worldwide. Additionally, our Business-Ready Network helps you simplify the integration challenges associated with materials sourcing, logistics, reduced product lifecycles, inventory reduction, and pricing pressures.

Christoph Lüders, Director of Purchase to Pay of Cognis Germany: "We were searching for a new solution for electronic processing in accounting. With Crossgate, we have now opted for a service provider who optimizes the processes considerably and makes an important contribution to reducing our administrative costs."

Source: Press Release: "The Right Chemistry for EDI"

“Our decision to choose Crossgate’s service is an investment in the future because we’d like to make the area of EDI more professional and don’t wish to be limited by our own capacity. This is something that a company that specializes in EDI can do much more effectively. We’re now starting to transfer our current business relationships to Crossgate step by step and are going to link up all of our new partners and customers directly via the platform from now on. In the medium term, this will not only reduce the amount of resources we use internally in the IT sector, but we’ll also benefit from using a business model that’s considerably cheaper to operate,” says Dr. Jürgen Overfeld, CIO at Chemetall.

Source: Press Release: "Chemetall Trusts in B.I.P."

"The scalability and flexibility of the system has convinced us: We are - like our industry - always in motion and we therefore need a solution that is quick and easy to adapt and expand. Especially here we profit from Crossgate's expertise," says Holger Geroneit, head of accounts payable at Lanxess.

Source: Press Release: "Electronic Incoming Invoices for Lanxess"

To be able to maintain its leading role on the global market in the future, the company intends to keep up its profitable growth strategy. Crossgate will accelerate reductions in costs and the optimization of its corporate processes. The two companies are also working together with respect to the roll-out for BASF's suppliers - the roll-out portal provided by Crossgate is being employed to gather relevant information about the suppliers.

Common Issues Addressed by Crossgate:

• Industry Standards & Mandates – Crossgate not only eliminates the traditional and expensive EDI migration projects, our solutions also help organizations simplify XML integration with partners and marketplaces through the use of the CIDX standards and OAG standards.
  
  
• Electronic Invoicing – Each local tax authority maintains different requirements for legal electronic invoices.  For global Chemical companies, this creates a complex set of local regulations that must be built into their B2B integration solution. Crossgate currently manages compliance in over 38 countries around the world including Germany, Mexico, Italy, France, etc…The solution simplifies both outbound customer invoices as well as processing inbound Accounts Payable invoices from global suppliers.
  
  
•  Supply Chain & Transportation Visibility - Increase supply chain and transportation visibility through partner collaboration solutions including Vendor Managed Inventory, Logistics Visibility and SCOR performance models. Simplify scorecards with key suppliers and logistics partners.
  
  
• Small Partner Integration - For smaller trading partners, the barriers to connectivity are daunting: they simply don’t have the time, expertise or resources to set up an EDI translator and maintain it. As a result, over 80% of trading partners are forced to maintain paper-based transactions, which are slower, significantly more expensive, and much more prone to errors—which, in turn, slow them down even more. Crossgate provides multiple solutions for small partner integration including the “Come As you Are” managed service, Crossgate Networx, and Crossgate Client. For more information visit Small Partner Connectivity.