In part II, I explored 4 pitfalls of traditional b2b integration that derail organizations. In this blog, I will cover a modern-day B2B integration approach to address those challenges. A modern-day b2b integration approach can fix many gaps, streamline B2B operations, and deliver tangible business benefits.
Must Haves of a Modern B2B Integration Solution
A modern-day solution provides out-of-the-box capability to help enterprises overcome b2b integration challenges. It delivers self-service integration capabilities that enable business users to build integration flows and integrate with business partners and customers.
A single platform provides visibility to multiple disparate systems and data in a complex ecosystem. Onboarding customers or partners and bringing business data to the source systems becomes fast and smooth. Moreover, enterprises are able to process multi-GB data and execute business transactions without errors.
Adeptia’s Modern Day Solution for B2B integration
Adeptia Connect is a next-generation B2B integration platform that helps create exceptional business value. It is an industry-best platform that unifies disparate processes & technologies and allows all transactions with business rules. Rich workflow capability allows enterprises to deploy applications or processes in a hybrid environment and connect with both SaaS applications & on-premise systems seamlessly.
Self-Service Integration: Adeptia empowers business users with self-service integration capability to configure solutions and automate data exchange with Partners and Customers. Business users can leverage Adeptia’s ground-breaking self-service interface to set up data exchange and automate data transfer between Customers (Spokes) and Carriers (Hubs).
Business User Portal: Unified business user portal provides greater visibility and collaboration across multiple partners and systems. Business teams get visibility to the entire lifecycle of transactions and know what happens to data that is being transmitted. The solution establishes a single source of truth and orchestrates message level logs of inbound and outbound relationships for greater collaboration.
Customer Data Onboarding: Adeptia is an ideal solution for typical onboarding scenarios. It puts enterprises on the right path to quickly create interfaces and move multi-dimensional data between source & target applications. A single product enables companies to extend internal processes and services to external entities.
Large File Data Ingestion: In complex ecosystems, companies find themselves drowning in a ‘sea of data,’ and they face difficulties in getting this data at the right place. Adeptia’s large file data ingestion capability addresses this need in simple and efficient ways. It processes multi-GB data and delivers it in a common format, timely and reliably. Business users can avoid incomprehensible information losses and painful delays while processing mission-critical business data.
Real World B2B Integration Benefits by Industry
Automating b2b integration touch points with exception handling capabilities delivers sustainable business benefits. Enterprises can connect easily with external suppliers, achieve real time visibility of shipments, automate warehouse, optimize inventory, and lower costs. Here are some of the key benefits by industry.
Financial Services
Automated financial data integration solution helps in setting up a connected financial enterprise. Integration layer connects disparate financial systems for enabling 360 degree view of customer, and accelerating fraud detection or loan processing. Integration across back office servicing systems, data stores, analytics platforms, etc. can be used to onboard customers faster while adhering to compliances and standardizing services.
Healthcare
Healthcare data integration solution helps enterprises in securely connecting hospitals, labs, doctor’s offices, and medical facilities in a seamless manner. It replaces cumbersome VAN based solutions with automation. All EDI based insurance enrolments, authorizations, and payment processes can be streamlined seamlessly.
Logistics
Medium to large logistics organizations can use B2B integration to ensure accurate and timely delivery of purchase orders, shipment confirmations, and shipping notices. All warehouse management systems can be integrated seamlessly.
Manufacturing
B2B integration supports many kinds of file transfer methods and workflow scenarios involved in manufacturing. Manufacturers can use more than one protocol for exchanging information. For instance, SFTP to exchange customer and supplier information, AS2 to communicate with banks, etc.
Retail
Complex conversions like X12 documents to XML format or CSV to XML can be simplified with automated B2B data exchange. Retailers can reduce chargebacks, time, fees, and improve profit margins and bottom-line.
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