Intelligent VAN

SCM Software - Intelligent VAN

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SCM Software Vendor Access Network

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The One Network Intelligent Vendor Access Network (VAN) is a set of network services and connections that allow companies to on-board and begin transacting with other parties on the network with very little effort. This is offered as a managed service and thus dramatically reduces the complexities that IT departments have to manage when trying to maintain EDI adapters, master data feeds and integration points that come when dealing with all customers, suppliers and fulfillment partners.

With One Network’s Intelligent VAN services, the long efforts of on-boarding partners is reduced from months to days (at most).

One Network Intelligent VAN Services

Enterprise Social Graph

The Enterprise Social graph is the representation of all enterprises and sites available on the network. Connections with all organizations and their employees on the Enterprise Social graph are immediately available to anyone on the network.

EDI Gateway

The Intelligent VAN supports all relevant EDI message types whether they are purchase orders, acknowledgements, advanced shipment notices, invoices, etc. These messages are available for many retail-specific standards, government standards as well as other hubs, etc. If a standard is not available, One Network will make it available for you upon request.

This service allows you to connect once to One Network and let the network manage all the connections to your trading partners. This eliminates the hundreds if not thousands of connections that would normally need to be managed individually.

XML Gateway with State Management, Guaranteed Messaging and Delivery

Similar to EDI Gateway, the XML gateway is an easy way to connect to your trading partners already on-boarded or new ones that can easily be on-boarded. This service supports multi-party transactions with full state management so that all transaction updates can be shared with all parties in real time. Guaranteed messaging and delivery are provided to assure that messages are processed.

MILSRIP/MILSTRAP

This is a government-specific integration message type. One Network supports, as a managed service, hundreds of these types of messages today. If there are additional messages not currently supported, One Network can make them available.

Master Data Management

This service is a robust offering of all master data needed to be posted and shared by participants on the network. This is a full multi-party solution with permissibility so all master data needed in the supply chain can be made available to all relevant trading partners. This means you only need to make this data available once and One Network will do the rest.

Integration Services

One Network offers a service called P2PI or “platform to platform integration”. This supports all known interface types such as XML, Flat Files, CSV etc. This method can be used to support any non-managed service offerings that are needed to connect partners into the network or the network back into legacy systems.

Demand Sensing Service

Like all other One Network solutions, Intelligent VAN offers demand driven capability. This service is called the Demand Sensing service.

The Demand Sensing service allows companies to post forecast, actual demand and other relevant supply chain data to a repository that can be shared with any other participants on the network. Like all other One Network services, this service offers a many-to-many permissibility framework that guarantees that companies can only see the data meant for them.

The Demand Sensing service offers a self-service capability to participants, allowing them to query and move the data, if allowed, to their enterprises or into the One Network Demand Signal Repository.

Demand Signal Repository

This service supports taking demand and supply data from one or many companies and posting it into a repository. This service can be augmented with the master data service, thus providing a complete repository of all data needed to begin running a demand driven supply chain.

Multi-Party Contract Management and Touchless Order Processing

One Network supports a multi-party representation of contracts. This means that, for your contracts, only one version of the truth is shared between you and your trading partners. These representations can be used within the Intelligent VAN to validate that all transactions are living up to the contract requirements. This allows for the elimination of manual order handling.

 

For more information on other One Network Services made available on the Intelligent VAN, see our other solutions below.

Benefits of Intelligent VAN

  • Lead time reductions
  • IT cost reductions
  • Order handling cost reductions
  • Service level improvements

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