B2B Primer

Why are B2B standards important?

Using B2B standards delivers many benefits to an individual company and to their business community.  Three of the most common benefits are listed below.

Creating a Unique Language for each Partner is Costly!

Reduce Time and Costs

B2B standards provide the starting point for partner discussions to establish B2B processing.

Any part of the B2B process that has not been standardized, must be negotiated partner-to-partner.  This takes time and often results in many variations of the same  process that must be managed.

Leverage Best Practices

B2B standards are created by business and technology experts from many global communities.  The standards often represent the proven methods and best practices from companies experienced with B2B processing.

Re-Use B2B Solutions

A typical B2B Solution will use several B2B standards.  Companies with standards-based B2B strategies will be able to take advantage of the wide number of commercial applications that support B2B process automation.

Include multiple B2B standards in your B2B strategy to offer flexibility?
for connecting partners with different process and IT capabilities.

Risk of Proprietary Solutions

Companies that integrate their B2B processing networks, without using standards, put a burden on every single business partner.  Non-standards solutions typically require every company to do “something special” or unique to support the individual company… a business practice that should be avoided when possible.