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

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

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Product overview

Achieve real-time supply chain intelligence by integrating your 100% of direct materials suppliers

TraceLink MINT for Direct Supply leverages the TraceLink network and its powerful "Integrate Once, Interoperate with Everyone™" to enable complete integration with 100% of your direct materials suppliers at a fraction of the cost and time of EDI or point-to-point connections. Achieve the real-time visibility, collaboration, and control needed to improve the agility and on-time performance of your manufacturing operations.

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With MINT for Direct Supply, you can:

Use a single connection to the TraceLink network to integrate with all direct suppliers

Exchange a complete set of transactions from forecasts and POs to inventory balances, advance ship notices, invoices, and much more

Improve supply planning with accurate, real-time supplier data to deliver more products on-time, in-full

Build more agile and resilient relationships with suppliers

Industry challenges

Integrate with 100% of your direct suppliers to improve visibility and reduce supply risk

For life sciences manufacturers, a lack of supply chain visibility across direct materials suppliers makes it difficult to effectively plan production. Critical challenges include:

Supply planning

Confirm POs and delivery schedules quickly and efficiently to ensure accurate supply and production planning.

Supply planning

Managing up to thousands of suppliers

Ensuring efficient and cost-effective supplier onboarding with real-time data exchange improves collaboration and reduces risk.

Managing up to thousands of suppliers

Ensuring supplier quality

Life sciences companies need to ensure the on-time, in-full delivery of materials that are cGMP compliant and on-spec.

Ensuring supplier quality

Managing payments

Generating timely and accurate payments for materials helps to maintain trust and good supplier relationships.

Managing payments

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 suppliers to participate, which makes it possible to integrate 100% of direct suppliers.

Product benefits

Free partner onboarding

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

Product benefits

Reduce inefficiency

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

Product benefits

Improve supply planning

Real-time purchase order exchange with acknowledgements and shipment updates from your direct suppliers ensures more accurate supply plans so products ship on-time, in-full with less buffer inventory.

Product benefits

Improve supplier relationships

Real-time collaboration and timely and accurate invoice payments ensure strong supplier relationships and better responsiveness to unexpected changes.

Product benefits

Rapid deployment

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

Capabilities

MINT for Direct Supply

Reduce supply risk and boost manufacturing performance by integrating with all of your direct material suppliers. MINT on 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

Manufacturing intelligence

Supply chain digitalization

Each company trading partner 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 direct materials suppliers across your supply chain.

Your company and each direct supplier 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.

Share and confirm forecasts with direct suppliers on products, quantities, due dates, order frequency, and lead times to lock in production capacity, ensure product supply, and create a more agile supply chain.