A complex challenge requiring specialised 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 specialised 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:
Recruitment Program makes it possible for you to reach business partners — suppliers, vendors, and customers — and inform them of your business initiative.
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.
Document Verification Program helps test and verify business partner data against your company’s EDI standards specifications.
Survey Program enables you to survey business partners to determine if a sufficient number of them would be interested in proposed B2B solution.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
