What are your New Years Resolutions for B2B Integration?

Are you preparing for a better new year? In 2015, I'd challenge you to "Rethink" by looking at your organization and asking the tough questions you didn't in the past 12 months. Include a resolution for more automation within your Business to Business (B2B) transactions. Take a first step and look at these B2B Stats on Efficiency in this infographic on how automation cleans up your B2B & EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) profitability. 

As you read on, keep in mind your resolution objectives should include asking "How" you can accomplish these 3 things:

1. Increase collaboration among trading partners 

2. Better manage communications to all partners

3. Reduce total cost

Once you have put some consistent and creative thought into these questions, begin investigating where you can affect change and how quickly. As noted in the Infographic above, an average of 5 EDI / B2B systems installed and operational in each or your organizations and this is a perfect starting point to begin a better 2015.  Approaching your trading partner transactions in a more automated way is the quickest avenue for cost savings delivered to your executives. I encourage you to ask the tough questions and focus on better management of your network. Be more informed and learn how to do all of this through modernization with IBM B2B Cloud Services. Make those resolutions work for you while saving costs and driving collaboration into the new year. Cheers to 2015!!