Sterling Commerce Delivers New On Demand Solution that Transforms Extended Supply Chain Data into Real-time Actionable Information

Logistics Insight Asia - Technology & Market Trends, 28/1/2008

Sterling Supply Chain Visibility On Demand leverages networked community and business-to-business connectivity expertise to enable lower total cost of ownership and accelerate return on investment.

Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc. subsidiary, recently announced the availability of Sterling Supply Chain Visibility On Demand, a new hosted solution that provides partner connectivity, process integration and real-time visibility throughout a company’s extended supply chain. Sterling Supply Chain Visibility On Demand instantly displays and summarizes actionable supply chain information from all electronic trading partners and communities through a secure, reliable hosted infrastructure.

By combining its business-to-business integration expertise with its global supply chain community, Sterling Commerce delivers a solution that enables manufacturers, retailers and distribution companies to maximize the number of supply chain partners with whom they do business. By extending the partner community, Sterling Commerce transforms extended supply chain data into real-time actionable data, resulting in improved operational efficiencies, lower inventories and inventory carrying costs, and greater responsiveness to supply chain disruptions.

Sterling Supply Chain Visibility On Demand addresses the visibility challenge by leveraging an existing community and minimizing the effort to collaborate with that community. With more than 19,000 Sterling Collaboration Network (SCN) customers and more than 90 global network interconnects, Sterling Supply Chain Visibility On Demand provides customers with immediate access to more than 270,000 unique trading entities around the globe. Sterling Supply Chain Visibility On Demand enables customers to implement flexible business processes and manage the flow of information regarding its mission-critical business activities across organizational and geopolitical boundaries.

The on-demand model is ideally suited to deliver immediate returns for customers. It offers customers an on-demand, real-time visibility solution that instantly connects supply chain partners and their critical supply chain processes to allow visibility via a single dashboard. By providing simplified partner on-boarding via a hosted network solution, partner implementation time and costs required for setting up the community are greatly reduced.

Sterling Commerce, www.sterlingcommerce.com

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