It's about lowering costs and establishing closer, more responsive relationships with your customers, suppliers and partners. Now you can link dealers and suppliers online, reducing both lag time and paperwork. You can move procurement online by setting up an extranet that links directly to vendors, cutting inventory carrying costs and becoming more responsive to your customers. You can streamline your financial relationships with customers and suppliers by Web-enabling billing and payment systems. Buyers are finding new suppliers.
Sellers have access to new customers and both parties are reducing costs.
In an increasingly complex, competitive and unpredictable environment, IBM helps you to maximize your business's ability to deepen and secure trading relationships with your customers and suppliers, and to prepare you to quickly take advantage of new opportunities. Advantages like being more efficient, providing better service and locking in key relationships. The business with the most flexibility and the quickest response time will be the one that succeeds. You'll want IT solutions that have built-in flexibility in features such as content management, order management, dynamic pricing and payment, and international trading capabilities. Get there first with the right strategy More than ever before, success belongs to those who can get to market first.