What is 100% supply chain digitalization and how can I achieve it with TIE Kinetix?

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What is Digitalization?

No matter what position you are in the supply chain - buyer or supplier - you have achieved 100% supply chain digitalization when you have completely eliminated the use of paper in your business transactions. Invoices, purchase orders, order responses, you name it; everything is sent and/or received electronically.

Digitalization should not be confused with digitization, which still relies at least partly on paper and/or email exchanges (e.g. scanning and recognition solutions). In a nutshell, digitization solutions are workarounds, while digitalization solutions will carry your business into the future.

As a customer, how can I achieve 100% digitalization?

Our FLOW platform enables buyers to achieve 100% digitalization by powering the entire supply chain ecosystem. With FLOW you are not limited to exchanging EDI/XML documents with the business partners who are already capable of doing so. With FLOW it is possible to exchange documents electronically with all partners, regardless of their size, by giving suppliers the option to choose one of the following options:

• EDI-2-FLOW, direct connection for partners who support EDI
• PDF-2-FLOW, similar to Dropbox for medium partners
• PORTAL-2-FLOW, online EDI (manual entry) for small partners

We are happy to work with you on a customized project plan with milestones, delivery dates, risk assessments and more.

As a supplier, how can I achieve 100% digitalization?

As a supplier you struggle with the eternal challenge of meeting all the different unique requirements of all customers in the field of document exchange. At a certain point it becomes unmanageable and you still have to invest in an automation solution to streamline the business processes. That's where we come in.

If all your customers are able to exchange documents electronically (and require you to do so), then 100% digitalization is just around the corner using EDI-2-FLOW, our fully integrated EDI/XML solution based on our cloud native FLOW platform.

But because it is usually the customers who are in charge, it is not always possible to exchange all documents electronically. In that case, we can't offer 100% digitalization, but we can get you as close as possible by helping you meet all of your customers' unique requirements and enabling you to exchange EDI/XML documents with the customers who are able to do so.

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