Business Integration Technology is a technology company that is focused on the business processes. We have exceptional depth in transportation, logistics, and supply chain, in addition to recent experience in financial services, banking, and enterprise application integration (EAI).

BIT offers four distinct services that can be delivered individually or combined into an integrated package specifically designed for your needs.

The third of these four offerings are Trading Partner Services:

B2B trading partner services can be contracted on a project-by-project basis, to either extend your existing trading partner network to include a new set of partners or to accommodate changes to your existing business processes, or to implement your existing trading partners to new business processes.

What challenges do you face in meeting your B2B integration business needs?

Having a successful collaborative network in place and running smoothly doesn’t mean you’re not facing critical challenges to meet your business needs. Maybe you have new customers that want to do EDI with you using message sets you’ve never used before. Or purchasing is asking to roll out purchase orders and invoices with suppliers - using both EDI and XML. And you need to update to a newer version of messaging standards, messaging technologies and application interfaces just to keep current business processes up and running. What if a new business initiative requires you to absorb a whole new set of trading partners into an existing EDI program?

Many companies do a good job of establishing links to their largest and most experienced trading partners, but implementing across a broader trading partner community proves much more challenging. Unless you have professional staff that are under-utilized and waiting for these unexpected new projects to come along, your choices are difficult. You can try to re-allocate your current staff across a growing list of existing projects and new initiatives and just "do the best you can" with the resources you have. But it will become increasing difficult to meet business objectives within the time required. If you can get additional staff positions authorized, you can recruit, hire, and train new staff. But finding good people takes a long time and costs are high. And will it be cost-effective to staff up for these periods of peak demand? Your enterprise can prioritize and choose between the e-Commerce initiative and other mission-critical projects. But if you’ve already streamlined existing support and the new projects make good business sense, you shouldn’t decline to provide IT support for all needs across the enterprise.

Business Integration Technology can help.

We can supplement your team with focused, experienced B2B integration specialists to meet the demands you face. We can handle the special requirements with special skills and let you focus on your core business. BIT is flexible on the business arrangements - from staff augmentation all the way to a fixed-price project. You decide what is best for your organization. And BIT always provides quality documentation and knowledge transfer to enable you to keep things going on your own. And we’re always here if you need us again.

Business Integration Technology can take your list of trading partners and business processes and manage the entire process. We can work with your business users to make sure transactions meet their business needs and we can work with trading partners to get complete agreement on specifications. Specific services:

• Trading program planning and analysis
• Electronic trading program implementation
• Expansion of existing electronic trading programs
• Trading partner implementation
• Testing, troubleshooting, questions, move to production
• Software installation and configuration
• Consulting on mainstream packages
• Integration with enterprise systems
• Map development
• Migration and consolidation
• Training

BIT has extensive experience with several generations of e-Business technologies: EDI, XML, Internet commerce, e-Marketplaces and data synchronization services. We have the experience and skills to handle all aspects of trading partner services. But "one size doesn’t fit all" and we will work with you to achieve the best business results at the lowest cost - and you’re always in charge.

Trading Partner Services Details (PDF)