By delivering faster, better integration and visibility throughout your supply chain, Crossgate solutions for Life Sciences give your manufacturing company or distributorship powerful new tools to meet the growing international pressures of government regulation, sourcing, pricing, data exchange, and even the infiltration of counterfeit drugs in the global marketplace. 

 

Delivery reminders and reminders to make payment can be sent automatically. If an order has not been confirmed within 3 or 5 days, respectively, the dispatching agent and the supplier are directly notified. “With the help of the new system, we were able to observe the improvement of the response rate from approximately 50 to 98 per cent right from the start,” reports Reiner Schmidt, project manager of Paul Hartmann AG.

Source: Press Release: "Clean EDI"

 

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 compliance with industry mandates such as GxP and ePedigree.
  
  
• 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. 
  
  
• Electronic Invoicing – Each local tax authority maintains different requirements for legal electronic invoices.  For global Life Science 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.
  
  
• 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.