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Multienterprise Information Network Tower (MINT) for External Manufacturing

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

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Product overview

Achieve real-time supply chain intelligence by integrating your external manufacturing operations

Integrate with 100% of your contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) 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, you and your partners can:

Use a single connection to the TraceLink network to integrate external manufacturing

Exchange a complete set of transactions from forecasts and POs to inventory balances and more

Improve supply planning with accurate, real-time data

Build more agile and resilient relationships

Industry challenges

Integrate your outsourced manufacturing operations to create a more agile and resilient supply chain

Life sciences companies are increasingly outsourcing manufacturing to manage CAPEX, access specialized production capabilities, and reduce costs. The lack of real-time intelligence across external manufacturing operations has created a new set of challenges for manufacturing and supply chain leaders, including:

Ensuring materials supply

Maintaining the inventory levels necessary to produce finished goods without disrupting production or carrying excess inventory.

Ensuring materials supply
Supply planning

Accessing supplier inventory balances, purchase order confirmation dates, product status, and delivery schedules to enable accurate supply planning.

Supply planning
Ensuring production visibility

Visibility into projected production completions and delivery dates is needed to ensure supply meets demand.

Ensuring production visibility
Maintaining quality

Ensure efficient quality reviews and batch approvals to speed release of inventory and meet demand.

Maintaining quality

Product benefits

Integrating 100% of your external manufacturing operations boosts manufacturing performance

Cost-effective network integration

Free partner onboarding

Increased visibility and collaboration

Improved supply planning

Orchestrate your digital twin

Rapid deployment

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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 your CMOs.

 

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Product benefits

Free partner onboarding

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

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Product benefits

Increased visibility and collaboration

Real-time data exchange ensures you and your CMOs are aligned on goals, working with a common set of accurate data, and can quickly respond to demand changes and supply chain disruptions.

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Product benefits

Improved supply planning

Real-time purchase order confirmations, inventory balances, and shipment updates from your CMOs ensures supply plans are more accurate and products ship on-time, in-full with less buffer inventory.

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Product benefits

Orchestrate your digital twin

MINT uses the relationships defined in the TraceLink network to enable product orchestration with CMOs, suppliers, customers, and logistics providers across your end-to-end supply chain.

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Product benefits

Rapid deployment

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

Capabilities

MINT for External Manufacturing

Reduce supply risk and boost manufacturing performance by fully integrating your external manufacturing operations. 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

Centralize data governance

Analytics
  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • MINT for External Manufacturing enables real-time exchange of all common business transactions between life sciences companies and all suppliers across external manufacturing.

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  • Your company and each CMO uses the integration format that works best for them, including EDI (ANSI X12, EDIFACT), IDocs, AS2, EPCIS, XML, CSV, and API.  Custom integrations are also supported.
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  • Share and confirm forecasts with CMOs to improve alignment 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.
  • Real-time visibility to production completions at CMOs and expected delivery dates improves available-to-promise and on-time, in-full shipments.
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  • Share and confirm purchase orders through the network with all suppliers.
  • Exchange and collaborate on purchase order updates online with suppliers.
  • Enable suppliers to send digital ASNs and invoices.
  • Use digital payments to streamline procure-to-pay process
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  • MINT centralizes data management for all transaction exchanges and provides status updates for you and your partners. With MINT, data does not get lost in emails, voicemails, or portals.

Nutra-Med Packaging Digitalizes its Supply Chain with TraceLink MINT

 

Industry Voices

Transforming external manufacturing relationships

Customers and industry experts explain why integration between brand owners and CMOs is critical and how TraceLink can help.

Customers and industry experts explain why integration between brand owners and CMOs is critical and how TraceLink can help.

The digitally transformed supply chain is really a situation where we have flows of information between companies, between all partners in the entire supply chain. It's not only about reducing inventory and speeding up lead times, it's also about making better business decisions, especially in a crisis situation, and it will certainly also help us reduce costs.

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Frank Binder

Global Head of Supply Chain Management

Santen Pharmaceuticals

TraceLink customers can exchange business information with all partners through a single integration in their preferred format without maintaining separate integrations for each customer and partner. TraceLink supports all transaction types and maps via an ever-expanding catalog as customer needs evolve and mature.

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Simon Ellis

Group Vice President and Leader of Global Supply Chain Strategies Practices

IDC

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Ready to see how MINT for External Manufacturing can help you digitally transform CMO relationships? Contact us to schedule a personalized demo.

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