# Direct Material Supplier + Contract Manufacturer
Orchestrate contract manufacturer relationships to improve on-time, predictable order delivery for API, excipients and other production materials
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## Realize visibility and collaboration with all manufacturing partners
The TraceLink network platform and Multienterprise Information Network Tower (MINT) solution helps direct material suppliers digitally connect and collaborate with all contract manufacturers to ensure on-time, in-full delivery of critical product materials for life sciences customer production orders.
Digitally exchange key, timely data from forecasts and POs to shipments on API, excipients, and other production materials.
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Increase external manufacturing visibility, agility, and resiliency via real-time data exchange and shared process collaboration with all partners
Improve procure-to-pay decision-making through shared intelligence from forecasts and inventory balances to production completion and ASNs
Meet all current and evolving serialized product identity and traceability requirements with tightly coordinated serialization operations
### Solutions to your challenges
Discover the ways TraceLink products can enhance resiliency to demand changes and supply chain disruptions in your external manufacturing network
#### Order collaboration & monitoring
#### Forecast & inventory insights
#### Batch production & quality management
#### Order fulfillment & invoicing
- Improve planning accuracy through real-time exchange and confirmation of PO quantities, due dates, and other critical transaction data
- Reduce the risk of failure-to-supply fines through exchange of ASNs and other data to drive predictable on-time, in-full deliveries
- Optimize available-to-promise inventory and minimize logistics costs through visibility to inventory balances and incoming finished goods
- Close the procure-to-pay loop by improving insight into invoices and remittance advice from all partners
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- Reduce late or missed shipments and resource costs through shared forecast planning schedules and responses with contract partners
- Reduce out-of-stocks and product delays through improved PO planning informed by accurate inventory visibility and production schedules
- Reduce buffer stocks for finished and intermediate goods through real-time, accurate inventory balances
- Speed response time to potential changes in delivery capability through improved insight into inventory adjustments
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### Products for your business
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[ Product ](/products/product-explorer) [ Multienterprise Information Network Tower (MINT) ](/products/partner-orchestration/mint)
[ Product ](/products/product-explorer) [ Process Orchestration for Empowered Teams (POET) ](/products/process-orchestration/process-orchestration-for-empowered-teams)
## The power of orchestration
TraceLink enables you to integrate and exchange critical transactions with 100% of your contract manufacturers through the world’s largest life sciences and healthcare network. See the power of orchestration between direct material suppliers with manufacturing partners.
TraceLink enables you to integrate and exchange critical transactions with 100% of your contract manufacturers through the world’s largest life sciences and healthcare network. See the power of orchestration between direct material suppliers with manufacturing partners.
### 1,000+
Contract manufacturers in the TraceLink network
### 165M+
ASNs processed in the TraceLink network
### 41B+
Product units serialized and tracked
## Hear what the network is saying
See how companies have leveraged our network platform and solutions to meet critical challenges facing companies working with contract manufacturers.
See how companies have leveraged our network platform and solutions to meet critical challenges facing companies working with contract manufacturers.
Case study
### Santen Discusses the Power of Real-Time Integration with 100% of Your CMOs
Hear Frank Binder of Santen discuss why enabling real-time exchange of business transactions with CMOs is critical to Santen Pharmaceutical's digital transformation plan.
[ Read More ](/resources/resource-center/santen-discusses-power-of-real-time-cmo-integration)
Case Study
### Proven CMO Connectivity Prompts Pharma to Switch to TraceLink
For a large European pharma company selling a high volume of in-scope medicines, finding a solution to exchange serialization data with more than 100 CMOs by the EU FMD deadline was crucial.
[ Read More ](/resources/resource-center/proven-cmo-connectivity-prompts-pharma-to-switch-to-tracelink)
### Life Science Company + Contract Manufacturer resources
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##### TraceLink Named a Leader in IDC’s Worldwide Multienterprise Supply Chain Network vendor assessment
TraceLink's powerful "Integrate-Once, Interoperate with Everyone™" network model, massive scalability, and support for all types of business transactions has earned it a top leadership position in IDC's latest ranking of multienterprise supply chain commerce network providers.
[ Read More ](/about/news-room/tracelink-named-leader-idc-marketscape-multienterprise-supply-chain)
##### Digitalize Your End-to-End Supply Chain with TraceLink Multienterprise Information Network Tower
Read how business leaders can achieve real-time supply chain intelligence through cost-effective B2B network integration with 100% of your contract manufacturers, suppliers, 3PLs, carriers, and customers
[ Read More ](/resources/resource-center/digitalize-your-end-to-end-supply-chain-with-tracelink-multienterprise-information-network-tower)
##### Unlock Real-Time Integration with 100% of Your External Manufacturing Partners: A Simple, Fast, and Cost-Effective Approach
Discover the fastest, easiest, and most cost-effective way to integrate and exchange data with 100% of your CMOs in real time.
[ Read More ](/resources/resource-center/mint-for-external-manufacturing-webinar)
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