In Retail, the customer promise is simple: Have the right product, at the right time, at the right price. However, delivering on that promise involves a complex and distributed supply chain. In today’s real-time economy where a consumer can easily go to the nearest competitor for a better deal or higher levels of customer service, Retailers are looking for innovative ways to improve their efficiency.

Integration & Visibility are the keys to success, and market leading solutions must extend internal applications by addressing the following issues:

• Demand Management – Solutions must be able to coordinate the delivery of purchase orders, forecasts, and delivery schedules between multiple internal systems and a disparate network of suppliers.
• Warehouse Management - Organizations need an internal methodology and architecture to distribute data in a timely fashion to react to market fluctuations and coordinate demand data with stock levels and delivery schedules.
• Product Visibility & Inventory Reductions – In order to stay competitive, Retailers need accurate visibility of their inventory and goods in transit. Solutions must include capabilities for:
• Vendor Managed Inventory
• Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment
• Message Tracking
• RFID Data Management
• Item Synchronization – Retailers are continually demanding their suppliers participate in global data pools such as UCCnet or exchanges such as Transora and WWRE.
• Invoice Reconciliation – With thousands of suppliers comes thousands of invoices and Retailers need solutions to help them manage and process these documents through account payables.
• Reducing Communication Costs – Whether consolidating older and expensive communications between warehouses, 3PLs or suppliers, organizations need flexible solutions that handle any type of communication.
• 100% Partner Integration – Organizations must have flexible solutions to automate trading relationships with their supply chain regardless of their technical capabilities. This includes EDI, XML, Web Services, Web Portals, Spoke connectivity, and solutions to process paper and faxes more efficiently.

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SEEBURGER’s B2B Gateway is the most comprehensive and cost-effective business integration platform in the industry. Designed to cut administrative costs and accelerate business processes by automating trading relationships throughout the supply chain, it is the only middleware solution capable of integrating 100% of an organization’s applications and trading partners — including smaller customers and suppliers that still do business on paper. 

• Document Exchange & Integration – SEEBURGER delivers one platform for EAI, B2B, EDI and Small Trading Partner Integration
• Data Transformation & Validation – SEEBURGER delivers solutions to verify data and cross-reference business documents
• Business Process Management – SEEBURGER delivers business process and workflow execution
• Visibility & Collaboration – SEEBURGER delivers a comprehensive set of solutions to visualize and react to ongoing business processes

Eliminating Paper Processes – SEEBURGER can automate the processing of paper transactions, including faxed documents, through a combination of OCR, artificial intelligence, data validation, and exception handling that dramatically reduces manual data entry.

Business Process Outsourcing – SEEBURGER can design, implement, host, and manage your entire eBusiness infrastructure.

RFID: Data Management – an optional tool for managing RFID data, tags and hardware and integrating data into core systems.