Retail & CPG

By ensuring unprecedented visibility into your entire retail & consumer products supply chain, the Crossgate Business-Ready Network helps you manage orders so you can stay on top of them, reducing your need for safety stock and lowering your inventory costs. You’ll get your product to market faster, improve vendor relationships, and improve customer satisfaction.



“Hiring new employees or training existing ones to include new global EDI requirements would have been cost-prohibitive for us because it would have been so resource-intensive,” said Kathy Pramik, Brown Forman’s AVP & Director of Enterprise Systems. “We want to keep our internal resources focused on value-added strategic business activities, so outsourcing our B2B enablement was the perfect solution."

Source: Press Release: "Brown-Forman Selects Crossgate B2B 360 Services Powered by SAP® to Streamline EDI Projects and Comply with GlobalE-Invoicing Requirements"

“We have chosen Crossgate for two main reasons: the company’s international reputation and the technological excellence of the services that are offered and supported by an excellent customer service network.” Angelo Lagostina, Export Department Manager for Alessi S.p.A.

Source: Success Story: "Crossgate re-designs EDI for Alessi"



Stefan Beyler, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at neckermann.de, explained the situation: “Our goal is to achieve flexible, fast business processes. This will not be possible without the seamless integration of the respective business partners in all areas, including our SAP systems.”

Source: Press Release: "neckermann.de integrates business partners using Crossgate’s Business-Ready Network"

Common Issues Addressed by Crossgate:

• Industry Standards & Mandates – Crossgate not only eliminates the traditional and expensive EDI migration projects, our solutions also help organizations meet an increasing set of mandates including: GUSI (Global Upstream Supply Initiative), GS1 and Data Sync, SOX compliance, AS2 communication, RFID, and additional Retail mandates including DESADV + NVE.
  
  
• Electronic Invoicing – Each local tax authority maintains different requirements for legal electronic invoices.  For global CPG 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…
  
  
• Supply Chain Visibility - Increase supply chain visibility through supplier collaboration solutions including Vendor Managed Inventory and SCOR performance models. Simplify scorecards with key suppliers and logistics partners.  Additional analytics solutions are available for Point of Sale (POS), spend analysis, and financial compliance.
  
  
• 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.