Trading Network

Trading Partner Connect, an Internet trading network, streamlines the commerce process between distributors, their manufacturers/suppliers, and end-users, thereby increasing sales and improving customer service while reducing operating costs.

Through Trading Partner Connect, distributors can access millions of items, enabling them to compete on a larger scale and improve customer service. Distributors further benefit from eliminated EDI Value Added Network (VAN) charges and reduced dead and surplus inventory. Activant B2B Seller also provides distributors with a Web-based storefront to give end-users online customer service, as well as ordering capabilities, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Trading Partner Connect offers several components:

• B2B Marketplace - Provides relationship management tools and a rationalized catalog with access to millions of items.
• B2B Buyer - Streamlines the commerce process between manufacturers/suppliers and distributors.
• B2B Alliance - Provides distributors with the opportunity to engage in collaborative commerce with other distributors of their choice and paves the way to clear away excess inventory or dead stock by allowing them to sell or purchase items amongst themselves.
• B2B Gateway - Provides interconnectivity to end-users' purchasing platforms and trading communities with whom distributors choose to do business.
• B2B Seller - Provides distributors with a fully hosted and integrated Web-based storefront solution that services their existing and prospective customers, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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