A complex challenge requiring specialized knowledge
To succeed in collaborative efforts, companies must be able to easily onboard partners and manage relationships. The challenge grows even more complex as B2B communities, which were once limited to buyers and sellers, now extend to a range of third-party distributors, brokers, logistics providers, and financial services companies.
Managing these relationships in a systematic way is a major undertaking that calls for specialized knowledge. Can you afford to go it alone?
Understand the value of a proven solution
Sterling Community Development Services combine proven tools and processes with dedicated resources to help companies build, manage, and expand their B2B communities. We apply best practices to protect your business relationships and make it easy for customers and partners to comply with requirements.
Here’s why Community Development should be a key part of your planning:
- Provides expertise to engage with your trading partners
- Ensures sound project planning and project management
- Focuses on critical impacts to your business and community to ensure overall success
- Enables diverse technological teams
- Reaches out globally
Sterling Community Development Services can help you in a number of ways:
Conversion Assistance Program assists you and your business partners in the migration of existing EDI traffic from current VAN (value added network) to the Sterling Collaboration Network.
Survey Program enables you to survey business partners to determine if a sufficient number of them would be interested in proposed B2B solution.
Recruitment Program makes it possible for you to reach business partners—suppliers, vendors, and customers—and inform them of your business initiative.
Document Verification Program helps test and verify business partner data against your company’s EDI standards specifications.
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Data Synchronization Manager simplifies the process of data collection, cleansing, registration, validation, and publication to a Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN) compliant data pool.
Fax Conversion Services convert incoming faxes to EDI or XML documents and reverse the process for outgoing documents, proactively alerting both senders and recipients of potential problems.
Managed AS2 Gateway Services enable you to comply with AS2 mandates inexpensively, and smooth the way for your suppliers to make the switch to AS2.
Sterling Information Broker provides guaranteed delivery of business-critical documents with end-to-end audits and controls, data archiving and 24/7 global customer support.
Supply Chain Visibility On Demand application gives our network customers unprecedented access to inbound and outbound supply chain information, which is critical to meeting customer demands and managing supplier performance.
SWIFT Service Bureau simplifies SWIFT connectivity, allowing corporations to leverage a single connection to the Sterling Collaboration Network for access to their physical supply chain, customers and 8,300 SWIFT member banks globally.
Translation and Mapping Services increase communications flexibility by offering high-quality maps, making it easier to exchange and process documents in all formats and standards.
Web Forms provide an economical way to exchange documents over the Internet. Your trading community can access electronic business forms, which they can fill out and return to you in minutes.
More information
Sterling Community Development Services Capabilities Brief
