By integrating your business partners, you can automate flows and improve your corporate performance to save time, reduce errors in quality, and lower costs.

1. ABCAL – October 10th 2013
How to improve your corporate performance by
Integrating your Business Partners ?

2. Agenda
• Concept & objectives
• In the practice : How to …
• Cases
• Your project: Steps & Business Case

3. B2B Integration
B2B Integration is the activity of automating the exchange of data and documents
between companies, so that they flow automatically from one company’s IT
system to another’s.

4. A priority …

5. Performance Improvement
• Integration with your Partners Saves Time
• Integration with your Partners Reduces the
number of Errors (quality)
• Integration with your Partners Reduces Cost

6. Agenda
• Concept & Objectives
• In the practice : How to …
• Cases
• Your project: 5 Steps & Business Case

7. Our business is B2B Integration
Automated transfer and translation of B2B data
exchanges
www.babelway.com

8. Babelway

9. “Any-to-any” connectivity
Any
format
Any
communication
protocol

10. “Any-to-any” connectivity
Application
connectors

11. “Any-to-any” connectivity
Company
connectors

12. Agenda
• Concept & Objectives
• In the practice : How to …
• Cases
• Your project: 5 Steps & Business Case

13. Cases
• Providers Integration: Wabco, Compass,
Armonea, Delfood, Cora, Poils et Plumes …
• Others : E-invoicing (Certech, AlterJob …),
Exchange of information with the belgian
customs (St Feuillien), Echange of financial
information (funds) between Banks …

14. B2B Integration @ Wabco
• Volumes
– 750 Partners
– 2M messages / year
• Providers Clients
– Delivery Forecasts - Orders / Rush orders
– Orders + Acknowledgement - Shipment Notifications
– Shipment Notifications - Invoices
– Invoices
– Credit Memo

15. Agenda
• Concept & Objectives
• In the practice : How to …
• Cases
• Your project: 5 Steps & Business Case

16. Demo case

17. Demo case

18. Demo case : Log in www.babelway.net

19. Demo case

20. Demo case: Step 1/2 - Gateways
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21. Demo case: Step 1/2 - Gateways

22. Demo case: Step 1/2 - Gateways

23. Demo case: Step 1/2 - Gateways
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24. Demo case: Step 1/2 - Gateways

25. Demo case: Step 1/2 - Gateways

26. Demo case: Step 3/4 – Message Def.
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27. Demo case: Step 3/4 – Message Def.

28. Demo case: Step 3/4 – Message Def.

29. Invoice XML from Provider
Demo case: Step 3/4 – Message Def.

30. Demo case: Step 3/4 – Message Def.
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31. Demo case: Step 3/4 – Message Def.
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32. Demo case: Step 3/4 – Message Def.

33. Demo case: Step 5 – Transform

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Demo case: Step 5 – Transform

35. Invoice reception

36. Business Case (1/2)
Reasons (examples): Reception Invoice.
• Large number of invoices or Invoice with multiple lines (time /cost)
• Request of provider
• Multiple portals of our providers. Easy for them. Not for us.
• Issues with the paper process (errors, lost, poor scalability, ...)
• …
Business Option
• Act: Electronic and Automatic exchange of Documents
• Do nothing
Expected Benefits
• Improved performance and scalability.
• Better visibility. Improved Finance management

37. Business Case (2/2)
Timescale
I. Evaluation of the needs (business case).
II. Choice of the solution for B2B Integration.
III. Agreement on the format and protocol.
IV. Technical deployment
V. Mesure, Optimize, Scale up.
Costs
• Subscription: as from 59 EUR per month for the Integration Platform. Prices
available on www.babelway.com
• Project (external or internal) : average 1 day per flow / client

38. B2B Integration
• Integration is part of the solution to reach
operational excellence.
• No heavy investment. No Big bang. Not
reserved to large companies ...
You can start with PoC / Quick wins.
• Think big, start small, scale fast!

39. Babelway
• Easy to learn
• Integrate with any business partner
• No Software, Full Control
• Quick to implement
• Affordable

40. Thank you
www.babelway.com
info@babelway.com
+32 10 390013
Benjamin Coumont
benjamin.coumont@babelway.com