A Come As You Are Approach Creates Powerfully Collaborative Supply Chains With a Critical Mass of Trading Partners

Agnostic B2B Supply Chain Operating Networks Remove Traditional Integration Barriers to Trading Partner Automation and Business Process Enablement, Allowing Companies to Better Collectively Sense Market Demand and Drive More Intelligent Responses


EXTON, PA--(Marketwired - Dec 3, 2013) - Elemica, the leading Supply Chain Operating Network (SCON) provider for the process industries, says a SCON with a "Come As You Are" approach to integration means that companies don't have to change their internal processes or make costly technology investments in order to reap the advantages of a collaborative commerce network. Agnostic integration capabilities enable thousands of individual trading partners, and their respective enterprises, to seamlessly and efficiently conduct commerce at a scale significant enough to create real cost advantages while also improving their ability to delight their individual customers.

"Process industry companies have invested heavily in internal process standardization and company-wide ERP systems. The internal efficiency of these 'inside-out' investments have driven savings through standardization and centralization, while enabling increased control over internal operations," said Rich Katz, Chief Technology Officer at Elemica. "However, these companies are still leaving money on the table. Inside-out strategies stumble when companies try to extend them outside their own four walls."

A recipe for unmet expectations occurs when businesses attempt to force trading partners to collectively adopt a single process or technology standard. Individual companies each have their own processes and enterprise requirements. While internal needs can be forced through by corporate mandate, external supply chain partners are not necessarily accepting of their demands. A Supply Chain Operating Network truly integrates the extended, varied, distributed, and complex needs of thousands of individual trading partners and their respective enterprises, without requiring any of them to change the way they do business.

"A 'Come As You Are' approach is key to unlocking 'outside-in' supply chain performance," adds Rich Katz. "When companies are able to automate and enable business processes across a critical mass of their trading partners, regardless of their individual requirements, business is transformed."

Highlights of Elemica's SCON include:

Elemica is the unrivaled Supply Chain Operating Network for buyers, sellers, and logistics service providers on which to seamlessly and efficiently conduct commerce across the extended global process industries. Robust data integration, automation, business process enablement, and analytics are all inherent in its design. Elemica's SCON provides the flexibility needed to work with the operating demands of the "outside-in" supply chain.

About Elemica

Elemica's Supply Chain Operating Network is designed to give clients greater control over their global supply chains. Capturing transaction data, across all trading partners, and translating it into actionable information is key to driving value out of the supply chain. By combining powerful SmartLink business process applications with a robust QuickLink Network, Elemica solutions improve operational efficiency, lower costs, and decrease working capital. Founded in 2000, Elemica today processes nearly $230B in annual transactions across more than 6,500 process industry trading partners. Elemica's global operations are headquartered outside Philadelphia and include offices in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Frankfurt, London, Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo. Clients include BASF, BP, Continental, The Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, LANXESS, Michelin, Shell, Solvay, Sumitomo Chemical, and Wacker. For more information, visit www.elemica.com.

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