Name: Multienterprise Information Network Tower (MINT) for Commerce
Brand: TraceLink

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Achieve real-time supply chain intelligence through cost-effective B2B network integration with 100% of your customers

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Product overview

Strengthen relationships with fast and simple network integration

TraceLink MINT for Commerce enables complete integration with 100% of your customers around the globe, including wholesale distributors, health systems, doctors, and retail pharmacies, at a fraction of the cost and time of EDI or point-to-point connections. Ensure real-time data exchange across a complete set of transactions, from purchase orders and invoices to advance ship notices and much more.

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With MINT for Commerce, you can:

Enable customers to place digital orders with just a single connection to the TraceLink network

Provide customers with real-time confirmations

Manage return authorizations and credit/debit adjustments

Digitalize the order-to-cash process

Industry challenges

The need to be part of your customers’ digitalization

A lack of digital integration between you and your customers not only creates challenges that negatively impact order-to-cash and on-time, in-full delivery performance, it also affects your customers' planning and inventory management capabilities. Some of the challenges you can address with MINT include:

Responsive order fulfillment

Customers expect prompt and accurate digital response to their orders.

Responsive order fulfillment

Providing up-to-date product information

For full digitalization of the supply chain, it is critical that customers have complete digital current product information.

Providing up-to-date product information

Effective supply chain planning

Enabling customers to share product activity data is critical to understanding product sell-through and channel inventory.

Effective supply chain planning

Product benefits

Cost-effective network integration

Our unique pricing model is based on the number of trading partners using MINT and the number of transaction types being exchanged. There are no unpredictable usage fees based on data volumes processed or a percentage of the value of the business transactions. There are no fees for your customers to participate, making it possible to integrate 100% of your customers.

Product benefits

Free customer onboarding

Customers are onboarded by TraceLink at no cost, including initial system integration, ongoing maintenance, and end user training.

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Improved supply chain planning

Real-time purchase orders and confirmations, product activity, and shipment updates keep you and customers aligned to achieve high on-time, in-full rates with less buffer inventory.

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Increased visibility and collaboration

Real-time data exchange ensures you and your customers are aligned on goals and can quickly respond to demand changes and supply chain disruptions.

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Achieve high customer service levels

Provide customers with complete digitalization of their ordering process with integrated price/product updates, purchase orders, PO confirmations, ASNs, invoices, and payments.

Product benefits

Rapid deployment

The TraceLink Integrate-Once, Interoperate with Everyone™ network approach gets you started in just days or weeks.

Capabilities

TraceLink MINT for Commerce

Improve customer service levels and supply chain performance by integrating with all of your customers. The proven TraceLink network makes it fast, simple and cost-effective.

Integrate-Once, Interoperate with Everyone™

All levels of digital communication supported

Real-Time B2B integration

Flexible modes of integration

Supply chain digitalization

Centralize data governance

Each company has a single connection to the TraceLink network for each transaction type, eliminating the need for EDI or costly point-to-point integrations and enabling sharing that transaction with all network partners.

System-to-System: Business transactions are exchanged between your enterprise systems and your partners’ systems.
System-to-Person: Business transactions are sent from your enterprise system to the TraceLink network and accessed by partners through the MINT user interface.
Person-to-Person: You and your partner exchange data through the MINT user interface.

Enables real-time exchange of all common business transactions between life sciences companies and all customers.

Your company and each customersupplier uses the integration format that works best for them, including EDI (ANSI X12, EDIFACT), IDocs, EPCIS, XML, CSV, and API. Custom integrations are also supported.

Provide digital price/sales catalog to ensure customers have the up-to-date product information.
Share and confirm purchase orders through the network with all customers.
Exchange product activity data to track sell-through at customer sites.
Exchange and collaborate on purchase order updates online with customers.
Send digital ASNs and invoices to customers.
Use digital payments to streamline order-to-cash process

MINT centralizes data management for all transactions and provides status updates for you and your customers.
With MINT, data does not get lost in emails, voicemails, or portals.

Industry voices

Transforming the supply chain

Customers and industry experts weigh in on the importance of digital supply chain transformation and the power of the TraceLink network.

Multienterprise Information Network Tower (MINT) for Commerce