Sterling Web Forms

Customizable Web forms for improving supplier and customer document exchange

Create and exchange business documents electronically with a secure, customizable Web site and provide economical B2B capabilities to your small business partners.

A customizable Web forms solution provides an electronic alternative to the inefficient paper-based communications you may be supporting with some of your smaller trading partners. Helps reduce errors and build an efficient set of business processes to keep your supply chain operations costs low.

Greater trading partner participation
Enhanced community visibility and reporting
Automated registration for faster partner onboarding
Customizable forms and best-practice processes
Business rule enforcement at document and process levels

Sterling Web Forms is a secure and economical way to exchange documents between you and your smaller trading partners. This solution provides gives you an affordable and accurate way to conduct business over the Web with capabilities that include:

Consolidated business processes

Streamlines your business processes to control spending and protect margins
Implements one process for all trading partners, regardless of their size or technical expertise
Eliminates exchange of paper documents, faxes, and phone calls with your small and seasonal partners

Out-of-the-box solution with configurable templates

Offers templates with configurable logos, layouts, and colors
Allows you to rapidly create Web communities
Shortens your time from configuration to connection with your partners

Task-based view for suppliers

Assists your suppliers in being more responsive
Date-based event management and alerting to make sure your supply chain continues to function successfully
Suppliers gain greater visibility into the order-to-cash process

Automated partner registration

Automates registration and information gathering
Eliminates the need to manually contact partners, form partner agreements, and collect information

Business rule enforcement

Process level
- Ensures compliance with established business processes by enforcing document choreography prevents submitting documents out of sequence
- Provides document linking for order updates and document consolidation
- Enables partial to complete fulfillment, without exceeding the original order information
Document level
- Automatically populates information in related

Community visibility and reporting

Offers a single view into your community of trading partners
Helps manage contact through community announcements
Identifies unresponsive partners and helps troubleshoot issues
Provides visibility into the performance of your entire hosted trading community complete with community-based reporting

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