Discrete Manufacturing

Because lower inventories, better process management, supply chain visibility, international regulatory compliance and time to market are key to profitability, the Crossgate Business-Ready Network gives you a revolutionary new service to manage your supply chain, from sourcing to order management to delivery. A universal interface means you can exchange information with your partners electronically no matter what format they use or demand, giving you faster integration, lower costs and improved materials management.

“Seeing as the most important systems here work with SAP software, it was the issue of conformity that had priority for us,” explains Josef Flügel, Project Manager for EDI at Lenze. “Crossgate is a partner with proven expertise in this area. We were particularly impressed by the monitoring possibilities that their EDI Monitor has and by the short implementation period they needed, which was just four weeks.”

Source: Press Release: "Lenze's EDI Drive"

"A while ago we started looking around for a solution that would allow us to structure communication with our suppliers more flexibly and also make it faster," says Susanne Longrée, head of Information and Corporate Processes at Emitec, adding: "A partner of ours recommended us to contact Crossgate, which it said was an expert in B2B integration. We were highly impressed by the concept behind Crossgate right from the word go. Our company will benefit economically from introducing EDI as our process costs will be reduced. And in addition to that, we're going to fulfill one of our ecological goals by saving paper, which protects important environmental resources," she concludes.

Source: Press Release: "There Are No Limits to EDI"

Common Issues Addressed by Crossgate

• B2B Consolidation – Most organizations have grown through mergers & acquisitions and have acquired a myriad of B2B integration technology.  As companies look to consolidate their processes and even ERP environments across the globe, Crossgate is eliminating the traditional and expensive EDI migration projects for both OEMs and 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.
  
  
• Supply Network Collaboration - Crossgate and SAP are working closely around the Supply Network Collaboration solution to help organizations collaborate more closely with contract manufacturers, track work in process (WIP), and reduce inventory overages and shortages.
  
  
• Electronic Invoicing – Each local tax authority maintains different requirements for legal electronic invoices.  For global Manufacturers, 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.
  
  
•  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.