IBM Sterling Products
IBM Sterling solutions stand out for their exceptional quality and reliability. Meticulously designed and continuously reviewed, these products not only maintain the highest standards of functionality, but also constantly evolve to adapt to changing market needs. This dedication to excellence ensures that every IBM Sterling-branded solution is at the forefront of technological innovation, providing businesses with the tools they need to optimise their operations and maximise their efficiency.
Broadly speaking, IBM Sterling products fall into two main categories, each aimed at solving specific challenges within the global business environment. On the one hand, there are file exchange solutions, designed to facilitate the secure and efficient transfer of critical information between trading partners. On the other hand, there are supply chain tools, aimed at improving visibility, traceability and coordination of logistics processes throughout the supply network.
IBM Sterling Data Exchange Solutions
IBM Sterling Data Exchange solutions simplify B2B exchanges by automating manual processes, improving the flow of information in B2B relationships, and ensuring critical transactions and frictionless, scalable data exchange.
Why IBM Sterling Data Exchange Solutions?
File transfer is becoming increasingly important.
Volumes continue to grow: larger files are routinely transmitted between larger communities, using more protocols and with greater complexity.
Consolidation of disparate file transfer systems.
- Regulatory compliance and information privacy are priorities.
- Obsolescence of traditional FTP systems: they become unmanageable.
- It is essential to ensure data integrity.
- They provide rapid on-boarding capabilities to gain competitive advantages (partners, suppliers, customers, etc.).
- Impact of globalisation.
- Migration from proprietary networks to the Internet.
- Mergers and acquisitions.
- Integration of file transfer infrastructure with corporate infrastructure (more dynamic).
- IBM Sterling Data Exchange solutions provide speed, flexibility and robustness to file transfer processes.
- They enable a rapid and cost-effective response to customer requests.
- IBM Sterling Data Exchange Solutions represent a strategic part of IBM’s core business.
- A consolidated platform with more than 15 years of market leadership.
- More than 40,000 satisfied customers worldwide and across all sectors of activity, including 80% of the world’s leading international banks (13 of the 15 largest banks globally and 17 of the 18 largest US banks), as well as 93% of the leading companies on the Fortune 500 list.
- Continuously evolving functionality.
Customers with IBM Sterling Data Exchange solutions have been able to reduce:
Dedicated to solving
problems associated with
file transfer
Associated with the management
of exceptions
Time spent on onboarding processes for new business partners
Regarding unmanaged file transfer systems
IBM Sterling Data Exchange Solutions Benefits
A single, secure gateway for files and documents
Simple and efficient onboarding processes for customers and business partners
Reducing costs in your value chain
System consolidation
Process industrialisation
and reduction of human intervention
High availability for zero downtime
Increased visibility and control
Adaptability to new protocols, standards, and formats
Advanced analytics to leverage the wealth of data
On-premise, local, hybrid cloud deployment options
IBM Sterling Solutions for the Supply Chain
Improve the efficiency and performance of the supply network to provide customers with what they want, when and where they want it, while ensuring the profitability of the business.
Why IBM Sterling Supply Chain solutions?
- The benefits of AI for all sectors of activity.
- Enabling end-to-end visibility and the ability to provide alerts and recommendations, almost in real time, which can be automated for self-correcting actions.
- Real-time recommendations based on a global view of inventory.
- Elimination of transaction blind spots.
- Context to help understand the implications of climatic, social, and economic forces on your inventory.
- A blockchain-enabled multi-enterprise business network that provides frictionless, highly secure connectivity and collaboration with customers, partners, and suppliers.
- The ability to enable and automate self-service onboarding functions so you can bring new partners on board in hours or days, rather than weeks.
- Provide a shared, transparent, and immutable record of real-time multi-enterprise digital events.
A hallmark of IBM Sterling Supply Chain Suite is the openness of the platform.
It allows developers and system integrators to build, extend, and integrate custom solutions that can interoperate with other commercial networks and applications.
It also allows third-party data to be incorporated so that all connected applications and networks can benefit from it.
Ultimately, this means you can tailor supply chain solutions to meet the unique needs of your business.
It allows you to host customised analytics and AI, as well as your own data services with IBM Cloud Pak for Data.
It allows you to interconnect our network with other networks and systems with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration.
Enables you to run your software in your own data centre or in virtually any cloud with IBM Sterling Order Management certified containers.
Similarly, it allows you to choose where to run workloads and link private workloads to value-added services in IBM Sterling Supply Chain Suite.
Benefits of IBM Sterling Supply Chain Solutions
Optimise supply chain execution
Address recurring supply chain challenges faster.
Manage
complexity effectively
Connect goods and services in a single order, managed to increase profitability.
Increase flexibility
and compliance
Automatically scale to meet changes in demand.
End-to-end visibility of the supply chain with AI
Connect and analyse data from different sources.
Reduce the impact of disruptions
Identify hidden anomalies in transaction data and predict future events.
Blockchain-enabled shared ledgers
Establish immutable shared records between multiple partners.
Boost efficiency and
control costs
Optimise sourcing to reduce delivery costs.
Deliver on customer promises
Have a single source for order tracking with accurate, real-time information available to display at the time of purchase.
Please contact B2B Solutions if you have any questions or require further information about IBM Sterling solutions.
We will be delighted to assist you.
