The 4 corporations that mastered spouse onboarding
When it comes to partner onboarding, your enterprise cannot afford to take days or even weeks – yes, weeks — to bring a new trading partner up to speed. It is critical that the members of your digital ecosystem be able to get up and running quickly and efficiently.
Companies that have not yet embarked on a digital transformation plan are not taking advantage of modernized technology that streamlines trading partner onboarding to allow business to transact faster. Whether you’re a transportation logistics company or a wholesale food distributor, partner onboarding doesn’t have to be a burden.
Here are four companies who have learned to master partner onboarding through ecosystem integration technology. They all have many different needs and goals, but the one common factor for all of them is the EDI-as-a-Service from EDI Here.
Hogan Transportation & Logistics
Hogan Transportation & Logistics has been around since 1918, with its headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. Hogan delivers high-quality transportation services within the U.S., such as truckload, logistics, and fleet maintenance. Eventually, Hogan found a centralized way to manage the different trading partners within its ecosystem.
“Customers tell us, we’ve never had connections set up this fast before,” said Glenn Jansen, director of IT at Hogan. With Hogan’s transportation logistics business rapidly growing and new partners coming onboard every day, the power to clone mapping templates for faster onboarding goes a long way with Hogan’s clients.
Halvor Lines
Based in Superior, Wisconsin, since 1968, Halvor Lines Inc. has been a trucking company that specializes in dry van, temperature control, deck van, and flatbed freight solutions. The trucking and logistics world is fast moving and constantly evolving, and Halvor knew it needed to utilize modern technology in order to meet all of its customer demands.
Since Halvor must support a wide range of protocols and documents, the company sought a more modernized B2B integration solution to vastly improve partner onboarding. With Halvor’s EDI trading partnerships in place, the company “reduced its data entry by about 65 percent,” said Bonnie Ramsay, chief operating officer at Halvor.
Lipari Foods
Lipari Foods is a wholesale food distributor from Warren, Michigan that serves more than 5,000 retailers in 12 states. The company was having difficulty onboarding a new trading partner with data requirements that went beyond simply EDI. Because Lipari could not communicate via its partner’s preferred file type, the process became quite expensive and arduous, and worst of all, much more prone to error.
Steel Technologies
Based in Louisville, Kentucky, Steel Technologies Inc. produces steel for customers in many industries ranging from automotive, appliance and construction to name a few. Steel is responsible for up to 2,000 EDI documents a day, but its PC-based EDI system lacked adequate monitoring capabilities as well as substantial customization.
“Every time we wanted to implement a new FTP connection, we had to modify the program to get it working,” said Mike Hoben, senior software engineer at Steel. “It was taking two months to onboard a new trading partner because there was so much code to change. It was extremely difficult to manage, and we had no visibility into dropped communications.”
Master Your Partner Onboarding
Organizations must be able to handle any type of requirement their digital ecosystem throws their way. When businesses can easily add, remove, and alter a piece of data related to a customer or a partner configuration, they are enhancing their agility as well as their responsiveness.
Optimizing operational agility is paramount to gain a better handle over your digital ecosystem. Once you have the right technology in place, you can consolidate legacy and disparate systems, and automate the onboarding processes and integrations that drive your ecosystem.
A centralized integration platform can provide faster partner onboarding for EDI and non-EDI workflows, as well as the connectors that integrate any type of application without additional coding. With the right technology, you can have your trading partners set up for data movement within minutes, and EDI and XML data transformation only takes a few hours or less once you’ve completed the initial mapping.
The EDI-as-a-Service from EDI Here allows enterprises to automate onboarding tools and data transformation because it comes pre-loaded with B2B connectors that give you a repository of hundreds of preconfigured, ready-to-deploy communication templates so you can connect faster. With versatile APIs and application connectors, organizations can accelerate the delivery of integration with your most critical business, and end-to-end visibility ensures you stay compliant with your customers’ SLAs.
Your customers shouldn’t have to wait, so why should you? Download “How to Rapidly Onboard Ecosystem Partners and Applications” today to discover how integration technology enables businesses to support any data requirement and eliminates the trading partner onboarding and IT application onboarding complexities that slow business growth.
