Description
TraceLink’s Info Exchange application enables and facilitates the connection, transaction translation, and exchange of business, operational, and transactional flows between a company and its business systems with the business and operational systems of its supply and trade partners.
Benefits
Leveraging the power of the TraceLink "integrate-once, interoperate-with-everyone" data management design and canonical data translation platform, Info Exchange helps companies create and maintain a reliable and resilient exchange of critical business and transactional information across a diverse supply chain network ecosystem.
- Enables companies and locations to define the data format of their preference, while facilitating the exchange of data with supply and trade partners of different preferences
- Speed connectivity to supply and trade partners by being able to leverage connections to partners already onboarded onto the network without needing to create new point-to-point integrations
- Gain actionable visibility on data exchange with a rich interface for monitoring, reporting, and exception processing of information flows to and from the system
Capabilities and Features
Info Exchange provides a rich and flexible platform to manage data exchanges and reconcile transactions across a diverse ecosystem of supply and trade partners.
- Leverage the canonical data model to design an integration model and data exchange strategy that enables a company and its partners to use the data formats and B2B/exchange protocol that makes sense for them
- Access real-time data from customer partners to translate transaction data into required formats
- Configure the selected file exchange format for each transaction (e.g., XML, EPCIS)
- Configure the delivery options per transaction type for transactions that will be received internally (automatic delivery, do not deliver, manual download via UI)
- View transactions and data exchanged with trading partners
- Specific business context and network link
- Transaction types and processing status
- Transaction date/time stamps
- Input and output transaction formats
- Sender and receiver IDs
- Transaction ID and linked file data
- Related business processes
- View and export input and output files for further review and analysis
- Manually import additional files to exchange with network partners
- Configure and send alerts on processing responses and file exchange exceptions
- Search for errors and exceptions across transactions, viewing details on those transactions
- Enable redelivery of successful data transactions and retry of failed transactions and data exchanges
- Provide partner access for self-service monitoring and management
