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As 80% of a businesses documents
(Purchase Orders, Invoices, Payment Advices now relies on
electronic transfer of information, any loss of business
information is unacceptable for clients, suppliers, or trading
partners (both internal and external). To maximize ROI,
proactive and intelligent surveillance of business document
processing is critical. Receiving an alert at the end of a day
is not longer acceptable as receiving information when a problem
occurs is required. A company, for example, wants to ensure that
purchase orders originating in its branches are received before
10 o’clock every evening. If this event does not occur, delivery
routes for the next day cannot be efficiently organized.
Preventive monitoring of business processes to receive and
process these orders helps guarantee higher quality of service.
React appropriately thanks to centralized, customized views of
monitoring information Notified of a problem, the operator can
rapidly identify the root cause and correct it by operations
such as: retrying the transfer, canceling the transfer,
executing a proprietary script alerting the appropriate person –
by e-mail for example – of the risk of client-impact from a
problem in the application chain.
TradeLink EDI is designed to use its
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), to provide a company a
powerful integration and document synchronization approach,
which offers companies the solution for end-to-end integration
of information exchanges both within the company and with
external trading partners. In order to guarantee its capacity to
provide this level of quality, a company must be able to rely on
the correct operation of all the elements in the processing
chain and the successful transmission of information. Originally
designed to monitor, manage and control Electronic Data
Interchange (EDI) and XML business documents, TradeLink EDI has
evolved to manage, audit and control all business documents no
matter what format they may be. TradeLink EDI makes it possible
to monitor the different internal flows and associated
applications using web services and its Business Process
Execution Language (BPEL) engine as the glue to combine the
solution into one centralized auditable solution. TradeLink EDI
can alert system operators of problems and how to action these
problems. In addition, it can supply internal and external
business partners with “status” information on business
information flows inside and outside an organization. Some of
the benefits of TradeLink EDI are:
End-to-end flow processing
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Data is processed by TradeLink
EDI wherever it may come from and whatever its format may
be, to be sent on to recipient applications with the data
structure they expect, using the desired transport mode and
with the appropriate timing.
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The automation of the exchange
processes makes it possible to eliminate some of the
existing manual stages and to reap the rewards in terms of
peed of execution and data quality.
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The integration of external
partners with internal applications guarantees consistency
in the processing of information.
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TradeLink EDI offers enhanced
reliability and performance with its file exchange processes
and audit system.
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The distributed architecture of
TradeLink EDI makes it capable of supporting large load
increases, so enabling it to absorb the peak loads of your
activity.
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Exchange business information
with suppliers, clients, internal applications and
commercial partners, using the data formats that each
partner requires (EDI, XML, TXT, CSV etc.) while maintaining
a single centralized audit.
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Trouble-free use of all of the
different information communications methods required (AS2,
Async, Bi-sync, FTP, proprietary file transfer, e-mail,
value-added networks, etc.).
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To integrate your external
trading partners information with your internal
applications, ERP, proprietary applications CRM etc.
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Allow your systems to share
information to your trading partners (whether they be
internal or external) while eliminating undesirable
redundancies and the risk of lost information that can
undermine the smooth running of your business.
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Facilitate the inclusion of new
business processes in your internal or external applications
to obtain a better "time to market".
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Guarantees fault-free quality of
service with permanent availability of the exchange system
and the assurance that orders and invoices can never be
lost.
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Any to Any information
transformations using TradeLink’s integration IDE (XMAPPER)
allows for integration of documents to/from an enterprises
back-end application.
Simplified monitoring, audit and
alert management
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TradeLink EDI is a robust
solution to replace point-to-point interfaces with an
exchange platform that reduces the number of interfaces into
one centralized view of the flow of information.
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The use of sophisticated alert
management allows system users to react to critical business
issues in a real-time environment.
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TradeLink EDI highlights
business issues and provides the end user with the ability
to action items.
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For reporting companies,
TradeLink’s audit provides compliance to regulatory
initiatives such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA.
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Provides the ability to
customize user access to allow for a centralized or
decentralized monitoring approach.
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Integrated monitoring views
allow users to monitor business document flow by:
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Business Process
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Task
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File
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Document
Distributed processing:
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TradeLink EDI is designed with a
distributed architecture for getting the most out of
multi-processor platforms in a logical distribution of
information flows via multiple processors and multiple
servers, locally or remotely, connected via web services
with a single-point for monitoring and audit.
In summary, TradeLink EDI provides
management, automation, format transformation, information
routing and business process management with the purpose of
streamlining business to meet the needs of an organization.
TradeLink EDI manages the flow of business information from end
to end, ensuring higher processing speeds, improved reactivity,
and higher quality of service.
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Customer Case Study
Premium Brands a leading
producer of specialty branded consumer food products
and conventional processed meats with facilities in
British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba,
Washington and Oregon had to find a solution to
integrate its existing iRenaissance ERP system,
SoftCare’s TradeLink EDI Management System to comply
with a mandates by their large retail clients to
implement a solution to gather all of their internal
item information and publish it to ECCNET and UCCNET
and to send and receive EDI documents via the
Internet using the AS2 protocol.
Premium Brands is a $600
million per year operation with offices/divisions
throughout Western Canada serving retailers
throughout North America. In 1999, they were looking
for ways to re-implement EDI to comply with
retailer’s demands for EDI communications. They
wanted an EDI application that could integrate to
their existing Accounting system and to their future
implementation of Premium Brands’ iRenaissance
back-end system to reduce their internal business
processing costs. This is why they turned to
SoftCare.
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For more information
about SoftCare, TradeLink EDI Management System,
and the SoftCare Solutions Group please contact us at:
Web:
www.softcare.com
Tel : 1-888-SoftCare
(604) 983-8083
email:
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