More and more companies want their suppliers to have the ability to reliably exchange electronic commerce documents. They are under pressure to reduce their procurement process costs by automating manual processes and eliminating the expensive processing of paper documents. They also want to improve the accuracy of the Purchase Orders they send and the Invoices they receive. Both suppliers and their customers agree that inaccurate Purchase Orders and Invoices create expensive exception processes.

Suppliers want to increase their efficiency. Suppliers are finding they take advantage of the benefits of EDI and reduce costs by automating B2B processes with their customers. Payment delays are frequently due to hard copy Invoices that have been misplaced or delayed in the approval process by coding errors so, like customers, suppliers are looking to improve Invoice accuracy. Suppliers want to tighten important customer relationships. They want to make themselves less expensive to buy from by reducing the administrative burden on their customers - from Purchasing, Operations, and though Accounts Payable. Suppliers also want to become easier to buy from, so they are reallocating internal administrative tasks to proactive customer service activities.

Suppliers want to maintain control of their customer relationships and transactions. They want to preserve the unique business arrangements they have worked hard to create with their customer and continue selling to their customers in the way they want to buy. They also want to minimize potential transaction failures by maintaining control of their commerce information, including product and catalog data.

B2BWorks for Suppliers means efficiency that works - for suppliers and their customers.