Business Value
Automating The Transaction Enablement Process
Companies today spend hundreds of person-days and countless resources working with their submitters to set up
and test each online process before any production transactions ever take place. Whether creating and/or agreeing
on standards for claims, eligibility inquiries, or a claims attachments, IT departments must perform the same series of
manual functions — often done by e-mail, telephone or fax — for each transaction with every partner.
As companies trade many different document types, often each with their own varying requirements, this significant cost and
time investment limits the achievement of significant and timely ROI. Manual enablement creates a huge bottleneck preventing
many companies from realizing the potential gains in productivity and lowered costs that B2B transactions can deliver.
Automation of this process is a critical success factor for organizations to achieve a cost and service competitive advantage in their marketplace.
Edifecs Ramp Management solves the problem that this bottleneck creates with a combination of a powerful community-centric portal,
tools and standards support. Designed to leverage all the benefits of Web-based commerce and community management, Edifecs Ramp Management
reduces the time and costs for working through the enablement process with each and every trading partner, using a self-service testing
paradigm configurable scenario definition, and community and user profiles.
Key Benefits
Take the headache (and expense) out of testing
Trading partner testing should not be time-consuming, tedious or expensive. Streamline the process by enabling your
trading partners to test directly against your companion guide edits and business requirements, online. Automated testing
helps eliminate many routine tasks, freeing your staff to focus on more strategic priorities. And detailed, instantaneous
feedback to your trading partners can dramatically reduce the time it takes to resolve issues, allowing a quicker
transition to production.
Reduce risk of production errors through robust validation upfront
Assure that transactions you send and receive are standards compliant by verifying 100+ standard EDI specific
rule types and an unlimited number of custom business rules. Use the same validation engine depended upon by thousands of companies,
including some of the worlds largest, for compliance checking.
Speed adoption through effective scenario management
Improve the success rate of data flowing through your production systems by testing against a tailored set of well-defined scenarios
that mirror your production processes, up front. Define unique testing criteria for different trading partners and for different file types.
Then verify compliance with those conditions using automated testing tools that provide the industry’s most intuitive reports and scorecards
to indicate which files passed, which failed, and why.
Achieve scalability through integrated program management
Scale your community to include new trading partners and document types by creating self-service programs for your partners to complete.
Quickly setup your programs by starting from predefined task templates. Use batch update and notification wizards to simplify program enrollment,
use surveys to discover readiness, and then actively manage participation and completion using automated alerts, dashboards, and detailed reporting.
Test your systems end-to-end
Testing doesn’t stop when a file has been validated against your EDI rules.
You also need to test that your partner can successfully transmit files, that your translator creates the required formats
for your backend-systems, and that the required responses are generated and routed back to your trading partners.
Use Edifecs Ramp Management to test the entire process by using programs to define specific testing workflows that go beyond initial
format and data compliance checks.
Accelerate the enablement process for a better ROI
Leverage a complete solution of technologies and best practices to reduce the time and cost for partner ramp-up by as much as 65 percent.
Start exchanging electronic transactions sooner to improve the overall ROI of your complete B2B implementation.
Enable more trading partners faster, without significant additional costs, thus driving more transactions and greater efficiencies.
Most trading partner communities can be up in a matter of weeks, getting to ROI sooner.
Lower the cost of changes to your requirements
Ongoing change is a fact of life. Your specific business requirements as well as the base standards will continually be updated
and change to meet legal or market requirements. Mitigate the costs and risks associated with this change by using our framework
and related tools to deal with it in a systematic way. Take advantage of tools to help you ramp up trading partners
to new transactions as they are rolled out or to migrate them to new versions, generate test data, regression test your systems,
and manage the entire rollout process to your trading partner community.
Provide at-a-glance access to key ramp metrics
Manage information from one central database to realize deep visibility into all aspects of the enablement process.
Centralize program materials, partner information, test records, issues, and notifications in one system.
Then use predefined reports and scorecards to understand high level trends and benchmarks, as well as drill-down
into fine resolution tracking details to diagnose specific problem areas.
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