Crossgate Inc., the global expert in business-to-business integration (B2B), has released a set of core service extensions in support of the SAP® Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) application, eliminating time and material B2B integration projects which have often presented challenges to supply chain managers.

Globalization of industries, the increasing speed of business and growing customer demand have created numerous opportunities for business growth and expansion. To take full advantage of these opportunities, organizations need to overcome the challenges involved in expanding supply chains to accommodate customer demand while maintaining visibility and control.

Crossgate is helping companies succeed in meeting the challenges of managing ever-expanding supply chains by offering them business process outsourcing (BPO) services that have qualified as “Powered by SAP”. These services from Crossgate, called B2B360˚ Services, offer a set of predefined service extensions designed for use with SAP applications. Crossgate’s Business-Ready Network already provides access to more than 40,000 network partners around the world that SAP customers can connect to and collaborate with. With Crossgate, companies can integrate any supplier of any size, anywhere in the world, for a predictable and fixed cost without having to impose new standards or change management procedures.

B2B360˚ Services “Powered by SAP” provide a turnkey integration solution that offers clear benefits in terms of time to value and total cost of ownership for customers. B2B integration with SAP SNC can be realized in a simple and very efficient manner.

“With Crossgate’s service extensions in support of SAP SNC, companies have the ability to electronically integrate suppliers and customers, without having to push mapping standards toward them,” said Lori Mitchell-Keller, senior vice president, Suite Solution Management, SAP. “The result is an increased level of end-to-end integration with global suppliers.”

Developing collaborative relationships is not always easy, since each partner has different technical capabilities and communication standards. Being able to integrate an entire network of suppliers with a single connection to the Crossgate Business-Ready Network gives companies a measurable increase in process excellence and operational efficiency. The Crossgate service extensions allow companies to quickly respond to upcoming business demands to integrate a new supplier or replace an existing trading partner for scenarios such as multi location visibility, forecast collaboration, supplier managed inventory or production progress reporting, without costly and labor-intensive change management or time and material integration projects.

From a technical perspective, the Crossgate service extension designed for use with SAP Supply Network Collaboration features out-of-the-box integration to EDIFACT, X12, industry-specific XML standards and a turnkey integration of trading partner-specific data formats for industries including high tech, consumer products and automotive.

The Crossgate service extension for use with SAP SNC accelerates direct communication among network partners, which significantly improves business agility and response times.

About Crossgate, Inc.

Crossgate offers the world's first Business-Ready Network, guaranteeing 100% integration of business partners, clients and suppliers. A single connection to the Network means electronic data exchange with any business partner regardless of their technical capability. In addition, Crossgate's B2B-360° Services “powered by SAP” provide clients direct access to all integrated business partners in the B2B transaction network via their SAP systems. With its legally compliant e-Invoicing Services, Crossgate also provides an innovative and 100% secure solution to cover the entire process of incoming and outgoing invoices, including signatures, global compliance monitoring, and secure automated long-term archiving. More than 40,000 business partners, representing over 10 industries, currently exchange documents and data via the Business-Ready Network.

Crossgate is represented at four sites in Germany, with operations in Atlanta, London, Milan, Paris, and AsiaPac. For more information, visit http://www.crossgate.com.

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