Software Products automate item synchronization.
Press Release Summary:
WebSphere® Business Integration Express for Item Synchronization and WebSphere Business Integration Express Plus for Item Synchronization v4.3 help suppliers streamline processes by managing flow of product information between their company and UCCnet's GLOBALregistry. Automated process minimizes errors, incorrect shipments, and deductions. Next- and same-day price changes are possible, accelerating time-to-market.
Original Press Release:
IBM WebSphere Business Integration Express for Item Synchronization and WebSphere Business Integration Express Plus for Item Synchronization V4.3 Allows Suppliers to Perform UCCnet Item Synchronization
At a glance
Designed specifically for suppliers pursuing supply-chain integration through UCCnet's GLOBALregistry, these solutions help suppliers streamline their item synchronization processes by managing the flow of product information between their company and UCCnet's GLOBALregistry.
There are enormous savings opportunities, as well as the great potential for enhancing revenue by streamlining item synchronization processes. Suppliers will be able to increase their profitability per stock keeping unit (SKU) by implementing IBM's item synchronization solution. A study by UCCnet has determined that suppliers and retailers may experience the following benefits:
Improvement in speed-to-retail for new products and item maintenance.
Automated process minimizes errors, incorrect shipments, and deductions.
Next- and same-day price changes are now possible, accelerating your time-to-market.
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).
Overview
Today's suppliers, consumer packaged goods companies, manufacturers, and wholesalers, face many challenges. Each year, 20,000 new food and non-food Universal Product Code (UPC) items are created and it typically takes 10 to 30 days to get these new items and price changes to market. Data elements that describe these individual items may change up to four times per year. Furthermore, nearly three out of five orders placed need to be revisited and reworked before completion. To meet these escalating data demands on suppliers, UCCnet has implemented multi-industry standards for product identification and related electronic communications. A subsidiary of the Uniform Code Council Inc., UCCnet is a neutral industry organization that implements these standards by requiring its community of trading partners to provide standardized item data in particular formats to its registry.
For suppliers to work effectively with UCCnet, they must be able to synchronize their enterprise item data with UCCnet's GLOBALregistry quickly and easily, without the need to rewrite or replace existing systems. They must also be able to get up and running on UCCnet's GLOBALregistry quickly with minimal disruption to their current business processes and enterprise systems. Now, many suppliers are being required by their customers to maintain item data on UCCnet's GLOBALregistry as a condition of doing business, further increasing the urgency to implement an item synchronization solution.
Built to meet UCCnet standards, IBM WebSphere® Business Integration Express for Item Synchronization and IBM WebSphere Business Integration Express Plus for Item Synchronization are mid-market solutions that automate item synchronization business processes using proven WebSphere Business Integration technology. These UCCnet certified solutions provide a cost-effective, easy-to-use approach to accelerating a supplier's transition to automated item synchronization.
Planned availability dates
October 10, 2003: Electronic software delivery of Express for Windows(TM)
December 30, 2003: Electronic software delivery of Express and Express Plus for Multiplatforms
October 31, 2003: Media for Express for Windows
January 22, 2004: Media for Express and Express Plus for Multiplatforms
Description
New in this release
IBM WebSphere Business Integration now provides solutions that allow mid-market suppliers to meet trading partner supply-chain integration requirements to synchronize product data with UCCnet's GLOBALregistry. WebSphere Business Integration Express for Item Synchronization and WebSphere Business Integration Express Plus for Item Synchronization allow suppliers to send and receive item data, to and from UCCnet's GLOBALregistry. Synchronizing data from internal supplier systems with UCCnet's GLOBALregistry allows item information changes to occur throughout the supplier's trading network, reducing the time and costs associated with item management.
