Effortless connectivity, Scalability, and AI Guided Insights

The strength of your supply chain begins with a business network that easily manages peak events and identifies potential issues beforehand. Many IT organizations manage consistently underperforming systems that depend on manual processes and lack visibility

IBM Sterling® Supply Chain Business Network is a trusted and scalable business-to-business network that automates and manages your supply chain processes, allowing partner collaboration on the same cloud-based platform. Support peak volumes of any transaction type with high availability and AI-powered data insights to help you detect anomalies and take decisive action to avoid disruptions.

Connect your supply chain data, insights and actions across your customers, partners and suppliers on a single business network. Simplify business collaboration anywhere with access to more than 800,000 pre-connected trading partners exchanging billions of EDI documents. As your business grows, get the flexibility to rapidly onboard new partners.

We will connect to your trading partners regardless of their requirements, and we support all standard and non-standard transactions. The highlights of Automotive transactions are listed below:

• 832 – Also known as a Catalog Price File, an EDI 832 file requests/provides prices and product information.
• 846 – Also known as an Inventory Inquiry/Advice, and EDI 846 is used by buyers and sellers to
• 830 –Also known as a Planning Schedule with Release Capability, and EDI 830 is typically sent from a manufacturer a vendor/supplier detailing needs for a specified period. Suppliers may use the information to automatically fulfill orders based on manufacturer needs including those using a Just-in-Time Inventory approach.
• provide updates regarding inventory levels. It is often utilized in drop ship environments.
• 850 – Also known as an electronic purchase order, an EDI 850 is an EDI transaction that contains order details and is typically sent to a vendor in the beginning of an order process. An EDI 850 is used for unique, recurring, and changing orders from a buyer.

• 855 – Also known as a Purchase Order Acknowledgement, an 855 is normally sent by a seller in response to an EDI 850 Purchase Order. It both confirms the receipt of a new order and tells the buyer if the PO was accepted, required changes, or was rejected. An EDI 855 is often required by large retailers and distributors.
• 856 – Also known as an Advanced Shipment Notice, an EDI 856 describes the contents that have been shipped, the size of the shipment, ship date and in some cases estimated delivery date. It typically follows the payment of goods from a buyer.
• 861 – Also known as a Receiving Advice/Acceptance Certificate, an EDI 861 is used confirm receipt after shipment and reports any issues.
• 862 – Often supplementing an existing EDI 830 Planning Schedule with Release Capability, this document is sent by a manufacturer to another manufacturer/wholesaler when they make updates to shipping instructions in an EDI 830 schedule or to describe a different shipping schedule.
• 864 – The electronic equivalent of a Text Message, an EDI 864 transmits messages in a human-readable format. Messages vary from contracts, explanations, and any extra information which a buyer/seller may require.
• 210 – Also known as a Freight Invoice, an EDI 210 is sent by a commercial carrier to a shipper to detail billing for a freight shipment.
• 214 – Also known as a Transportation Carrier Shipment Status Message, an EDI 214 is sent by a carrier to a shipper/buyer inform them of shipment status.
• 810 – Also known as an invoice, an EDI 810 document is sent in response to an EDI 850 Purchase Order and requests payments once PO goods are shipped. An EDI 810 often includes data like an invoice number and date, shipping information, item prices/quantities, payment terms, etc.