# Direct Material Supplier + Wholesale Distributor
Leverage digital network integration to meet the electronic integration requirements and maintain high customer service levels with your wholesale distribution customers
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## Build strong relationships wholesale distribution customers
The TraceLink network platform and Multienterprise Information Network Tower (MINT) solution helps direct material suppliers digitally connect and collaborate with all wholesale distribution customers to ensure on-time, in-full delivery of materials.
Digitally exchange key, timely data from forecasts and POs to shipments to better support your wholesale distribution customers.
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Receive electronic forecasts for customer requirements to support better collaboration and planning.
Receive customer orders electronically with optional ERP integration, provide real-time confirmations with updates, and send shipping notices to keep wholesale distributors updated.
Integration between ERP systems ensures all constituents are operating from a single source of the truth.
### Solutions to your challenges
Discover how TraceLink products can improve the agility of your supply chain to respond to changes in demand and supply while mitigating the impact of supply chain disruptions on your fulfillment and manufacturing operations.
#### Customer demand visibility
#### Planning and scheduling
#### Visibility and collaboration
- Electronically receive expected quarterly and annual projected material requirements from your wholesale distribution customers on the TraceLink network to improve your demand planning.
- Provide electronic forecast confirmations directly to wholesale distribution customers to enable more accurate available-to-promise.
- Improve alignment with wholesale distribution customers on quantities, due dates, and order frequency to meet service level agreements (SLAs).
- Enable your suppliers to improve their planning to minimize the bullwhip effect and lower costs based on better downstream demand data.
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- Collaborate with wholesale distribution customers to ensure purchase orders are received with adequate lead time.
- Use real-time integration of customer purchase orders to improve planning and fulfillment.
- Confirm purchase orders to align on delivery quantities and dates.
- Use real-time ASNs to keep receiving operations updated on delivery times.
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- Collaborate with wholesale distribution customers in real-time to respond to purchase order changes and provide advice on potential supply disruptions.
- Get visibility to the latest customer requirements with integrated purchase order changes.
- Jointly monitor ongoing purchase order exchange and confirmation activity with customers.
- Simultaneous visibility to purchase order performance supports collaboration with customers on process improvements.
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### Products for you
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[ Product ](/products/product-explorer) [ Multienterprise Information Network Tower (MINT) ](/products/partner-orchestration/mint)
## 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 life sciences companies 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 life sciences companies with manufacturing partners.
### 1,650+
Direct Materials Suppliers in the TraceLink network
### 870+
Distribution and Logistics Partners in the TraceLink network
### $4.4B
Point-to-point integration savings between network partners
### 165M+
ASNs processed in the TraceLink network
## Hear what the network is saying
See how companies have leveraged our network platform and solutions to meet critical challenges facing life sciences companies and contract manufacturers.
See how companies have leveraged our network platform and solutions to meet critical challenges facing life sciences companies and 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)
### Direct Material Supplier - Wholesale Distributor
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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)
### Let’s connect
Ready to learn more about how TraceLink can help you integrate, digitalize and gain intelligence across your entire contract manufacturing network?
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