B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

The Challenge

This maker of building products for commercial and residential customers has been a Fortune 500 company for 65 consecutive years—and a Remedi client since 1996. During that time, the client has relied on consultants from Columbus, Ohio-based Remedi to manage, monitor, and maintain an EDI environment built on the IBM® Sterling Gentran: Server for Unix platform.

Here’s a question for you: how long does it take for you to onboard your supply chain partners? Moreover, is that speed acceptable to you—are you experiencing costly disruptions because the process is taking too long?

Chargebacks are a costly and irritating part of doing business. You’ll see chargebacks when you don’t get a customer’s order correct, or you don’t uphold your end of an SLA. While they’re costly and irritating, chargebacks don’t have to be a necessary part of doing business.

Fifty years ago, the supply chain was simpler: manufacturing was fairly local (if it wasn’t near your business, it was probably at least in the same country), and you weren’t dealing with many supply chain partners. Fast-forward to today, when the supply chain is quite complex due to the fact that many trading partners are distributed across the globe.

The world is trying to figure out the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic months after its outbreak. Yet, some effects were immediately clear—specifically, supply chain disruptions. These disruptions wreaked havoc on businesses, leaving them reeling and in some cases, struggling to recover.