Automating business processes shared with trading partners using IBM Sterling B2B Solutions

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1 Automating business processes shared with trading partners using IBM Sterling B2B Solutions Devendra Sahu Senior Software Engineer Gaurav Abbi Senior Staff Software Engineer Click to add text Date: 9 th August, 2012 Venue: The Leela Palace, Bangalore

2 Agenda: B2B Integration Business Complexities and Smarter Commerce Solution B2B Integration IBM Sterling B2B Integrator IBM Sterling e-invoicing solution IBM Sterling Mobile Solutions

3 Buy-Sell-Ship-Pay Process Between Companies Pay Process Bank Sell Process Payment 9 Generate & Send Invoice 8 Delivery Verification 10 Generate & Send Payment Buy Process Seller 1 Sales Activity & Proposal Submit (Purchase) Order 2 Order Status 3 Buyer 4 Advanced Shipment Notification 5 Tender the Freight Carrier Ship Process 6 Shipment Status 7 Delivery 3

4 Industries are facing an increasingly complex B2B Integration problem Multi-Enterprise Organization s Trading Partners Governance Protocols Reliability Visibility Standards Integration Technologies SLAs Data formats The need to be globally integrated is driving an expansion of ecosystems and the number of partners for organizations

5 Which Results In These Business Challenges Increasingly complex and diverse business partner communities Lack of real-time business process visibility Limited resources focused on B2B 5

6 What is B2B Integration? Focuses on various software and services used by companies in order to integrate business processes internally and externally with their customers, partners, and suppliers By linking, companies are effectively extending their internal process and data used with B2B to their business partners 6

7 Need to rethink their B2B integration strategy Top Business Challenges Increasingly complex and diverse business communities Too many costly error-prone manual business processes Lack of real-time business process visibility Capabilities Needed Reduce the time and complexity of securely and flexibly integrating 100% of partner communities Seamlessly automate and extend internal business processes to external partners Provide visibility into actionable information across key IT and business processes Limited IT and business resources to implement and manage B2B infrastructure and projects Accelerate the ROI of B2B projects and use their internal resources where they need them most

8 Benefits of Automating The Buy-Sell-Ship-Pay Process 8

9 IBM B2B Integration IBM Sterling B2B Integrator IBM Sterling E-Invoicing IBM Sterling Mobile Solutions

10 IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Architecture Sterling Integrator Exchanges (e.g., Transora, UCCnet) Trading Partners Value-Added Networks SMTP EDIINT (AS2, AS3) FTP, FTP/S HTTP, HTTP/S ebxml SOAP XFORMS Services > BPM-centric > Open Standards Support B2B Services & Adapters Mailbox Intelligent routing Graphical Modeler Human Interaction Exception Handling Business Process Engine Web Extensions EAI Adapters Technology Messaging Legacy/Custom Apps Databases Applications CRM, ERP Gentran products EDI / XML RosettaNet 10

11 IBM Sterling B2B Integrator B2B Integration IBM Sterling B2B Collaboration Network provides cloud access to 300,000 pre-connected trading partners Your Company contd... IBM Sterling B2B Integrator on premise capabilities for direct connections to your most strategic and demanding partners IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Supplier Portal Fax Conversion Managed AS2 Gateway EDI/Non EDI

12 IBM Sterling B2B Integrator contd.. Trading Partner Integration Partner profile management Data Transformation Mapping and Translation B2B Standards including robust EDI handling EDI Standards: X12, EDIFACT, TRADACOMS (Retail industry), HIPAA (Healthcare), RND, VDA Banking: SWIFT, Fedwire, CHIPS and ACH, EBICS Aviation Industry: SPEC2000, Chemical Industry: CIDX Petroleum Industry: PIDX Internet transports: HTTP, SMTP, FTP, AS1, AS2, AS3,OFTP

13 IBM Sterling B2B Integrator contd.. Business Process Engine Real time modelling of business flow, through Business Process Modeling Language (BPML), Communicating with external applications or middleware (using special services called adapters). Routing data based on content or other criteria. Performing data manipulations, such as translation, transformation, splitting, and joining

14 IBM Sterling B2B Integrator contd.. Security Identity management, including authorization and authentication (LDAP, SSO) Role-based data access and system operation Data transport security (SSL, SFTP/SSH) and data encryption (S/MIME and PGP) support Non-repudiation Document Encryption Perimeter security at DMZ traversal Digital signature support

15 IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Additional Features Scalability contd.. High concurrency (1000+) and Large payloads (20Gig +) Clustering/Load Balancing External JVMs adapter deployment Supports wide range of Operating Systems and Databases combinations RHEL, Windows, AIX, Iseries, HP-UX DB2, MySQL, Oracle, MSSQL Data Tracking and Document Visibility

16 Irish Dairy Board Business partner integration drives supply chain success and cost efficiencies Business challenge: Create and deliver a streamlined, real-time supply chain to enhance a global business made up of hundreds of suppliers and customers The solution: For added flexibility, the solution was developed through a combination of Sterling B2B Integrator, connecting the Irish Dairy Board to their main trading partners, and Sterling B2B Collaboration Network, an on demand B2B network that provides connectivity to the remainder of partners. This combined solution helps enable the Irish Dairy Board to use one of the most efficient and cost effective methods to connect to their trading partners, simplifying and streamlining supplier relationships upstream, and providing comprehensive visibility throughout the supply chain. The benefit: Offers a reliable and security-rich communications foundation for enhanced global collaboration Tightly integrates business relationships with customers, and provides up-stream supply chain with suppliers Improves customer satisfaction through enhanced service levels Offers ease of integration for faster onboarding of partners, both current and future The IBM Sterling solution helps us streamline our supply chain with our suppliers while continuing to meet the increasingly stringent requirements of our customers. John O Moore, General Manager, Information Systems, Irish Dairy Board. Solution components: IBM Connectivity and Integration IBM Sterling B2B Integrator IBM Sterling B2B Collaboration Network 16

17 1 IBM Confidential. For Internal Use Only. IBM Sterling e-invoicing Orchestrate the flow of invoice data Adapt to the complex, ever-changing business and technical regulations for electronic invoicing Paperless processing Reduce risk by enabling tax compliance in accordance with tax regulations of multiple countries Reduce costs by automating manual processes Easier Auditing Process E-Invoicing laws began with (EU-115), 2001-member country to accept e-invoices for VAT authenticity, integrity and readability should be guaranteed throughout the storage period

18 Deployment Model Archiving Audit and reporting Scenario 2: Buyer running GIS, receives unsigned invoices, signs and archives on behalf of supplier, returns signed invoice. 4 Trustweaver Dashed line indicates new components for existing GIS customers. Business processes GIS - Certificate authority network Compliance Map Data validation Deployment options Signing and validation Supplier system 1 9 B2B Adapters 2 8 Trustweaver adapter Supplier process 7 10 Buyer 16 Normal 17 process processing Archive 15 App. adapter 18 Buyer non-gis application Standards Legend: Invoice Signed Validated Data Invoice Invoice Users will exercise either step 7 or steps 8 & 9, never both. 07/ 08/ Sterling Commerce. Confidential and proprietary.

19 IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Mobile Ensure the health of Sterling B2B Integrator solution from anywhere System status Database growth Average business wait time Take corrective action from a mobile digital device Run/Restart failed or halted business process Manage lock resolution for users and resources Initiate thread/heap dumps Turn logging on and off 19

20 Other operations-focused mobile applications Sterling Document Tracking Mobile Monitor, search, review and manage document and trading partner activity Sterling In-Flight Data Management Mobile Search, view, track and monitor B2B documents processed through the IBM Sterling integration as-a-service platform and exchanged with their trading partners 20

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