Improve trading partner participation while simplifying and securing document exchange with IBM Sterling Supplier Portal. Benefits • Enhanced community visibility and reporting • Automated registration for faster partner on boarding • Business rule enforcement at document and process levels • Greater trading partner participation

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Sterling
Supplier Portal
Improving trading partner participation while
simplifying and securing document exchange
Participation in B2B programs still remains out of reach for many
organizations. They may be limited by a lack of technical skills,
outdated technology, or budgetary restrictions. It can be both expensive
and inefficient to deal with non-compliant organizations.
IBM®
Sterling Supplier Portal is a secure Web site that allows you and
your trading partners to create and exchange business documents
electronically over the Internet – extending business-to-business (B2B)
capabilities to your business partners, regardless of their size or
technical expertise.
IBM Sterling offers your business community an affordable alternative
to paper-based communications which are difficult to manage, can
introduce errors and delays, drive up administrative costs, and impair
the performance of highly efficient business processes or supply
chain operations.
With Sterling Supplier Portal, you are in control of your supplier
community. Your sponsor site allows you to create and configure a
Web community where you can invite and onboard suppliers through
the Web interface. Once part of your Web community, your suppliers
have access to a task-based, event-driven interface with clear visibility
into the supply chain.
Through our secure Web service, your trading partners enter data in
forms to create electronic business documents such as invoices,
purchase orders, acknowledgements, and advance ship notices.
When they submit a form, we convert it into the electronic format
your systems require.
Sterling Supplier Portal can also enable your smaller customers.
The Sterling Supplier Portal customer enablement option allows you
to share your catalog with your smaller customers, giving them a way to
order from you using the most up-to-date product information. It can
also be customized to meet your needs to provide customer-specific
product offerings and customized business rules.
Benefits
Enhanced community visibility and•
reporting
Automated registration for faster partner•
onboarding
Business rule enforcement at document•
and process levels
Greater trading partner participation•

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Capability Description
Consolidated business
processes
• Streamlines your business processes to control spending and protect margins
• Implements one process for all trading partners, regardless of their size or technical expertise
• Eliminates exchange of paper documents, faxes, and phone calls with your small and seasonal partners
Out-of-the-box solution with
configurable templates
• Offers templates with configurable logos, layouts, and colors
• Allows you to rapidly create Web communities
• Shortens your time from configuration to connection with your partners
Task-based view for suppliers • Assists your suppliers in being more responsive
• Date-based event management and alerting to make sure your supply chain continues to function successfully
• Suppliers gain greater visibility into the order-to-cash process
Automated partner registration • Automates registration and information gathering
• Eliminates the need to manually contact partners, form partner agreements, and collect information
Business Rule enforcement • Process level
– Ensures compliance with established business processes by enforcing document choreography
prevents submitting documents out of sequence˚˚
– Provides document linking for order updates and document consolidation
– Enables partial to complete fulfillment, without exceeding the original order information
• Document level
– Automatically populates information in related fields
– Enforces data and partner compliance
Community visibility and
reporting
• Offers a single view into your community of trading partners
• Helps manage contact through community announcements
• Identifies unresponsive partners and helps troubleshoot issues
• Provides visibility into the performance of your entire hosted trading community complete with community-
based reporting

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