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Logistics and Distribution – Tangentia Industry Solution


Business Background

Today’s logistics service providers and distributors need to lower costs, reduce cycle times and support customers’ technology needs. They need to optimize the connectivity across their global supply chain, while reducing disruptions, automating outbound customer shipments, and ensuring reliable inbound supply integration. With increasing globalization and reduced cycle times in order to stay competitive, logistics providers need accurate visibility of materials, supply chain information and financials across their entire value chain.

Features of the Tangentia Logistics and Distribution Industry Solution

1) Supply Chain Optimization - Tangentia solutions for Supply Chain Management enable companies to anticipate, control, and react to demand and supply volatility within the distribution network. In partnership with IBM and leveraging its ILOG family of solutions, Tangentia can assist companies in solving complex planning, scheduling, and logistics management problems while tying these operations to corporate objectives to reduce costs, improve operational efficiency and enhance the customer experience.

2) B2B Connectivity -

  1. Tangentia Commerce Gateway: Tangentia is a market leader in the hosted EDI solution marketplace with the Tangentia Commerce Gateway solutions in use at 100’s of cutomers worldwide.
  2. IBM Sterling B2B Integration : Tangentia’s logistics and distribution industry solutions based on the IBM Sterling B2B Integration platform automates business processes shared with trading partners. The goal is automation of the complete “buy-sell-ship-pay” process that involves a range of documents and business processes, which include not just the buyer or seller of the goods/services, but also banks and third party logistics companies.  Software solutions include- Sterling Connect:Direct, Sterling B2B Integrator, MQ FTE, WebSphere Transformation Extender ( WTX) and WebSphere Partner Gateway (WPG).
  3. Banyan Commerce: Associate company Banyan Commerce rounds up the Tangentia B2B Connectivity solution offerings with its focused B2B offerings.