SEEBURGER Releases 'BIS:Insight' for Advanced B2B/EDI Management; Supply Chain Event Management Suite Housed in Company's New B2B Portal

Offers Complete Visibility into B2B/EDI Transactions, Events & Exceptions

    ATLANTA, July 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SEEBURGER Inc. today
 announced the availability of BIS:Insight, a Web-based supply chain event
 management suite that provides complete visibility into B2B and EDI
 transactions, events and exceptions for manufacturers and other
 organizations that electronically enable communications with trading
 partners. The application is an add-on for the company's flagship B2B
 Gateway and a core component of SEEBURGER's new B2B Portal, a browser-based
 set of utilities designed to reduce B2B/EDI-related paperwork and equip
 administrators with new tools for keeping goods and payments flowing
 smoothly.
     BIS:Insight offers a menu of features that expedite B2B/EDI message
 retrieval, provide time-sensitive monitoring of trading partner
 communications, facilitate problem resolution, and enable inventory
 tracking across the extended supply chain. The application's four principal
 functions are:
     -- Advanced message tracking including the ability to search for documents
        by any field including message payload and B2B/EDI enveloping.
        Searches can be conducted by specific message (e.g. purchase order
        #1234) as well as by groups of messages (e.g. all 856 shipment notices
        that went to a specific trading partner or left the company between
        8 and 10 am).
 
     -- Event-based message monitoring and alerts enabling B2B/EDI managers to
        establish rules for document handling (e.g. all ASNs must be sent
        within 30 minutes, all purchase orders must be invoiced within two
        hours) and be notified automatically when these requirements are not
        met.  In addition, users can configure the system to inform them of
        certain events (e.g. when an invoice is sent to a customer or payroll
        is sent to a bank), and to generate reports that aggregate multiple
        alerts (e.g. all orders that have not been shipped or invoiced).  All
        of these functions are based on the application's ability to correlate
        multiple message documents.
 
     -- Exception management and dispute resolution enabling users to define
        the steps and human workflow required to resolve errors within a
        specific process.  This function can be used to assist with
        troubleshooting the EDI process itself (e.g. handling each day's error
        documents), EDI/ERP conflicts (e.g. the invoice amount or invoiced SKUs
        don't match the purchase order amount or SKU numbers in the company's
        ERP system), or trading partner requests (e.g. retailers who want every
        EDI error researched and annotated with the reason their order or
        request was declined).
 
     -- Enhanced inventory tracking, both internally and across the supply
        chain, to lower inventory carrying costs and administrative overhead.
        This is achieved through use of the SEEBURGER Inventory Monitor, which
        provides real-time visibility into inventory levels, demand forecasts,
        purchase orders and other transaction-based data that flows through the
        SEEBURGER B2B Gateway to enable demand-based replenishment; and/or the
        SEEBURGER RFID Gateway, which provides insight into actual goods
        movement by capturing data from barcodes and RFID labels.
     Industrial electronics product manufacturer Eckerle Industries, for
 example, is using the inventory monitoring capabilities of BIS: Insight to
 reduce inventory management costs by giving suppliers online access to
 real-time information on Eckerle's parts inventory and consumption plans.
 This strategy has enabled Eckerle to optimize inventory levels as well as
 eliminate in-house parts monitoring and order processing by placing
 replenishment responsibilities in suppliers' hands.
     "Our BIS:Insight package builds on the power of our B2B Gateway to
 further reduce manual processes, add intelligent B2B/EDI monitoring tools,
 and leverage the information captured during trading partner communications
 to provide enhanced inventory control," said Scott Lewin, President and
 CEO, SEEBURGER Inc. "All of these capabilities are unique in the industry
 and significantly advance our core mission: squeezing inefficiencies out of
 the supply chain."
     In addition to BIS:Insight, the SEEBURGER B2B Portal also houses
 BIS:Roll Out Services, a partner enablement utility that speeds on-boarding
 of new customers and suppliers to SEEBURGER's B2B Gateway; BIS:Partner
 Self-Service, a change management utility that allows trading partners to
 submit online requests for adjustments to their partner profiles and other
 EDI-related metadata; and individual connectivity portals that
 electronically enable smaller trading partners by utilizing Web forms to
 automate document exchange.
     All components of the SEEBURGER B2B Portal are built on a common
 framework that permits data to be displayed within a single interface
 across a trading community.
     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 top
 industry analysts, and serves more than 7,000 customers in more than 50
 countries and more than 15 industries through its flagship B2B Gateway 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
 
 

SOURCE SEEBURGER Inc.