Accelerates AS2 Deployment in Global CPG and Food Service Industries
IRVING, Texas, Feb. 5 -- bTrade, the business-to-business (B2B) software leader, announced today that the company signed an alliance agreement with Becton Schantz, the market leader in hosted order management services. The alliance agreement includes three areas of collaboration, bringing innovative services to new customers and accelerating penetration of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) among the nation`s retail supply chain:
1. Becton Schantz will imbed bTrade TDNgine and bTrade Relay into their
service center, enabling the company`s 250 food service and retail
broker customers to reduce Value Added Network (VAN) costs,
streamline operations and use the AS2-Internet service capabilities
of bTrade TDNgine to securely receive orders and deliver invoices
directly from and to retailers;
2. bTrade will joint market the new Becton Schantz hosted service to
bTrade customers in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Industry; and,
3. bTrade and Becton Schantz will introduce a joint service to retailers
and their supplier communities to "EDI-ze" the industry.
Investments in a faster and lower-cost supply chain system benefit retailers when a "critical mass" of partners send and receive orders and invoices electronically. Today, most retailers manage purchase orders and invoices manually, via paper and fax, with at least 80 percent of their suppliers.
"The bTrade/Becton Schantz alliance brings a comprehensive set of sophisticated products, hosted services, professional services and marketing management to help any retailer accelerate VAN-less B2B and grow their EDI implementation," said David Lonsdale, bTrade chairman and CEO. "We can uniquely address the broad scope of needs and economics for both the largest and smallest suppliers."
Retailers deploy bTrade TDNgine message center software and work with bTrade professional services to accelerate AS2 communications with suppliers. Larger suppliers purchase bTrade TDAccess and use AS2. Smaller suppliers use Becton Schantz hosted order management services to manage their orders, inventory and AS2 communications with a predictable monthly fee.
"When we looked at our previous bTrade alliances over the past year with Meijer, Wal-Mart and other retailers, an important customer need became apparent: an advanced order management hosted service. Becton Schantz are the best in that business," said Lonsdale.
"Becton Schantz chose bTrade because of its outstanding products and leadership capabilities in community building services," said Marc Schantz, president of Becton Schantz. "Customers, particularly the small-to-mid-sized consumer packaged goods manufacturer, will be excited about our low monthly price and `all-in` full-featured functionality. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software implementations are notoriously over-budget and late. We eliminate that cost and risk."
AS2 is a popular method for companies to automatically share important supply chain documents such as purchase orders and invoices over the Internet. Large U.S. retailers such as Wal*Mart and Home Depot mandated AS2 to their suppliers last year. With the exception of the nation`s largest retailers, the bulk of the retail supply chain has yet to take that step forward.
Order management services is the business process of capturing electronic purchase orders from retailers, validating them and translating them into electronic documents for factories or distributors. Becton Schantz is a world leader in hosted order management services, with over 250 customers in the food service and retail broker communities.
About Becton Schantz (www.bectonschantz.com )
Headquartered in Duluth, Ga., Becton Schantz is the leading provider of administrative services to the food industry, with over 20 years experience in the development and implementation of order entry and related administrative services.
Approximately seven million orders are processed through its system, for more then 10,000 manufacturers and thousands of retailers, amounting to more than $60 billion in product sales.
Becton Schantz has led the industry in innovation for many years. The company was the first to offer advanced EDI transactions, such as promotions, prices changes, new item information and commission payment information. Becton Schantz was also the first company to automate the generation of customer specific forms for promotions, new items and price changes.
About bTrade (www.bTrade.com )
bTrade is at the heart of the world`s greatest trading networks. Since 1990, bTrade has delivered B2B infrastructure systems to the Fortune 500 and over 200,000 of their most important business partners:
-- Thousands of companies in the food and consumer packaged goods
industries including Bell Sports and Tootsie Roll
-- Every university and college in the United States
-- Every major FedEx customer and transportation supplier
-- Every supplier to the world`s largest airline
-- Every authorized Honda dealer in North America
-- Three out of four insurance companies in the United States
-- One out of four companies with 401k benefit administrators
-- Major suppliers to the world`s largest retailer
-- Major customers and service partners of three of the world`s largest
financial services companies
-- Most departments and agencies of the U.S. government
Headquartered in Irving, Texas, bTrade delivers e-commerce systems that provide companies of all sizes a scalable suite of products and services that reduce cost and accelerate business processes. bTrade currently hosts more than 2,500 companies, including IBM and Honda Finance, in its high- availability data center. We are B2B.
CONTACT:
Melissa Berg-Baker of bTrade
+1-972-580-2925
cell +1-214-460-6858
mberg-baker@bTrade.com
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