Sargento Expands Trading Partner Integration with Sterling Commerce
COLUMBUS, Ohio Sargento Foods Inc., a family-owned provider of high quality cheeses, selected Sterling Commerce, a business integration leader, to expand its trading partner integration capabilities. Using a single Sterling Commerce integration solution, Sargento Foods will be able to facilitate transactions with its trading partners using the partner`s communication protocol of choice.
"As a Sterling Commerce customer for the past eight years, we have been extremely pleased with the quality of the business integration products, service, and support we have received," said Barb Oestreicher, manager of Shared Technologies, Sargento Foods Inc. "When we began our search for an Internet-based AS2 document exchange solution, we turned right to Sterling Commerce because of our successful history in working together. The powerful functionality of Gentran Integration Suite meets not only our current needs for consolidating EDI mapping and SAP R3 integration, but it allows us to evolve our trading partner communications to accommodate the preferences of our valued clients and partners."
Sargento Foods was successfully using Sterling Commerce technology for mapping, translations and integration with SAP R3. When some of its major retail trading partners began to require Internet-based AS2 communications, Sargento launched its search for one solution that could provide functionality across all of its integration needs, including EDI, XML, AS2 and back-end integration with its most critical ERP system, SAP. By selecting Sterling Commerce`s Gentran Integration Suite, Sargento Foods has one solution that addresses all of its critical business integration demands. In addition, Sargento Foods is able to simplify technology support by working with one trusted vendor for all of its business integration needs.
"Sargento`s choice of Sterling Commerce as its standard business integration solution will not only address the company`s technical concerns, but it also provides unlimited business opportunities by enhancing its supply chain interactions, enabling the company to work with any trading partner using any data format or communication standard," said Sam Starr, president and CEO of Sterling Commerce. "We look forward to working with Sargento to further strengthen their customer and trading partner relationships."
About Sargento Foods Inc.
Sargento Foods Inc. is a family-owned company comprised of three business divisions: Consumer Products, Food Service and Food Ingredients. The company employs approximately 1300 people at four Wisconsin facilities: Plymouth, Kiel, Hilbert and Elkhart Lake. The Consumer Products Division is a leading national packager and marketer of shredded, snack and specialty cheeses sold under the Sargento brand, cheese and non-cheese snack food items and ethnic sauces. The Food Service Division is a producer of custom cheese products that are tailor-made to the specifications of many national restaurant chains. These products include natural sliced and shredded cheeses and breaded appetizers. The Food Ingredients Division provides custom cheese products to meet the needs of other food manufacturers. These products include sliced, shredded and diced cheeses, portion control packs, fillings and sauces. More information about Sargento Foods, Inc. can be found at www.sargento.com.
About Sterling Commerce
Sterling Commerce, a wholly owned subsidiary of SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC), is one of the world`s largest providers of business integration solutions. For Global 5000 companies and their customers, suppliers and partners, Sterling Commerce software and services help maximize business performance and improve business metrics through integration of applications, external partner systems and people. With more than 25 years of experience serving more than 30,000 customers in a vast range of industries, Sterling Commerce is a recognized pioneer in electronic commerce through its longstanding expertise in EDI. Today, as customers explore new ways to improve business performance via the Internet, Sterling Commerce continues to innovate its software and services to further the global adoption of e-commerce while offering its customers strategic solutions that leverage existing technology. For more information, visit www.sterlingcommerce.com.
SBC Communications Inc. ( www.sbc.com) is one of the world`s leading data, voice and Internet services providers. Through its world-class networks, SBC companies provide a full range of voice, data, networking and e-business services, as well as directory advertising and publishing. A Fortune 30 company, America`s leading provider of high-speed DSL Internet Access services, and one of the nation`s leading Internet Service Providers, SBC companies currently serve 58 million access lines nationwide. In addition, SBC companies own 60 percent of America`s second-largest wireless company, Cingular Wireless, which serves more than 22 million wireless customers. Internationally, SBC companies have telecommunications investments in 25 countries.
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