RollStreamNews & Events
Better Manage Supplier Relationships - Industrial Distribution
June 9, 2010
“New trends, tools, and techniques to help industrial distributors better manage their supplier relationships are becoming increasingly prevalent in the business-to-business marketplace. Kristin Muhlner, CEO of RollStream, a provider of enterprise resource management technology, recently sat down with Industrial Distribution to discuss supply relationships, some of the new technologies, and how they are being received by the industrial distribution community.”
SEEBURGER & RollStream Simplify Trading Partner Community Management
ATLANTA and MCLEAN, Va., June 8 —SEEBURGER Inc. and RollStream Inc. today announced a channel partnership to help large enterprises simplify the management of complex B2B trading communities by automating both the exchange and testing of transactional data, such as purchase orders, and administrative human-to-human processes, such as new supplier/customer registration. The initiative pairs SEEBURGER’s B2B integration and RollStream’s community management platforms to drive new supply chain efficiencies, improve business performance and ease trading partner collaboration.
The combined offering closes a gap in B2B automation related to the standard practice of handling non-transactional partner communications by email, fax and phone. While EDI and associated technologies have enabled system integration for years, interactions such as managing partner master data and executing key enablement programs have remained manual processes. RollStream bridges that gap with a suite of online tools that enable profile and credential capture, robust communications, and important business-to-business activities such as supplier registration, compliance and risk management, and dispute resolution.
These tools complement SEEBURGER offerings ranging from the widely adopted Business Integration Server (BIS) platform for EDI/B2B connectivity to the SEEBURGER RollOut Portal for partner self-serve message testing and certification.
Use of the RollOut Portal shortens onboarding time for automated document exchange from several weeks to several days, and eliminates $15,000 to $20,000 per partner in IT work for the hub organization. Both the BIS platform and the RollOut Portal are available as a software license, under the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, or as a service deployed and managed by SEEBURGER.
“Good management of a trading partner community is a critical factor in optimizing supply chain performance. A recent study by Aberdeen Group, for example, linked best practices in partner management to business benefits such as fast cash conversion cycles, on-time order delivery from suppliers, and on-time order delivery to customers,” said Bill Metallo, Vice President of SEEBURGER Inc. “Enterprises that use our B2B integration solutions with RollStream’s community management platform will take a major step toward improving the collaboration processes that can help achieve these kinds of results.”
“By combining SEEBURGER’s solution with RollStream’s collaboration platform, companies looking to establish more strategic trading partner relationships can now do so at the human layer,” said Pete Plotas, VP of Channels and Partners at RollStream. “Together the two platforms deliver comprehensive trading partner community management and incremental gains in business efficiencies.”
About SEEBURGER
SEEBURGER is a leading provider of global business integration solutions designed to optimize transactions throughout the extended enterprise by automating trading relationships with all partners regardless of their size and technical resources. Launched in 1986 to provide integration solutions to the automotive industry in Germany, the company today is ranked among the top business-to-business gateway providers by leading industry analysts, and serves more than 8,000 customers in more than 50 countries and more than 15 industries through its flagship Business Integration Server and related products and services. SEEBURGER has global offices in Europe, Asia Pacific and North America, including a U.S. office that opened in 1998. For more information, visit http://www.SEEBURGER.com
About RollStream
RollStream Inc. is the leader in enterprise community management. The company’s SaaS product optimizes supplier relationships through a powerful collaboration platform that includes master data management, robust communications tools, and process applications Industry leaders such as CVS, Ahold USA and Ethicon/Johnson & Johnson use RollStream to realize the full potential of their extended supplier community through activities such as supplier registration, compliance and risk management, and dispute resolution. Learn more at http://www.rollstream.com or http://www.twitter.com/rollstream.
SEEBURGER CONTACT:
Monisha Mills
SEEBURGER Inc.
678 638 4884
ROLLSTREAM CONTACT:
Leah Wilkinson
RollStream
(703) 907-0010
U Connect 2010
June 7 - 10
JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country
San Antonio, TX
The U Connect Conference® has been connecting industries and value chains for ten years. Join us along with C-level mangers, business analysts and implementers of business processes to see how Rolution solutions helps enable visible, secure, and sustainable value chains.
AMR Supply Chain Executive Conference
June 3 - 4
The Phoenician
Scottsdale, AZ
The world financial crisis that froze business for most of 2009 has passed and growth appears ready to stage a comeback. But global business opportunities look radically different now as we enter the second decade of the 21st century. Infrastructure needed to tap emerging markets is being built just as an overhaul in our energy networks and manufacturing plants is beginning to accelerate. Supply chain executives are looking ahead to a smarter, more connected, and more sustainable physical and information infrastructure as they plan for 2010 and beyond. This means huge new business opportunities for industrial manufacturers as well as new challenges for consumer and retail leaders who must master a very different global supply network.
Please join us in Scottsdale as supply chain leaders convene from across sectors to look ahead at what this new infrastructure means to business growth.
The keynote speaker, T. Boone Pickens, will bring hard won lessons on both how emerging energy and physical infrastructure businesses operate as well as their potential to impact strategies for supply chain leaders across industries.
CFO: The Three Biggest Risks You Face
May 31, 2010
“CFOs can also expect no let-up in the number of government regulations going into effect as a result of the financial crisis and other corporate breakdowns, experts say. ‘Companies tell us they cannot afford to ignore the growing number of regulations affecting their business operations - their reputations and bottom lines depend on it,’ says Kristin Muhlner, CEO of RollStream.”
Retailers Adopt Online Solution for CPSIA Compliance
May 26, 2010
“An initiative to improve the safety of consumer products and ensure compliance with recently imposed federal regulations is quickly gaining ground with retailers and suppliers. Coordinating with software developers from RollStream, Inc, NACDS designed the Certificate Exchange Network (CEN) to help companies comply with regulations included in the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). More than 10 major retailers have signed on so far, along with the prominent drug manufacturer Pfizer.”
