Business Community Management (BCM) creates a comprehensive view of your supply chain by integrating the technology, business processes and communication of the entire business community. By unifying the technology and business community communication, a company can optimize its supply chain and create sustainable value through three key avenues: increasing end-to-end visibility, reducing B2B complexity and automating the entire trading community.

Your trading partners have evolved from being a part your supply chain to being a vital part of your business success. Today's business environment demands collaboration to gain competitive advantage. To keep your supply chain running smoothly and stay focused on running your business, you need end-to end supply chain visibility that is accessible across your entire trading partner community.

Business Community Management provides the B2B foundation for increased collaboration that deepens trading community partnerships. By removing the complexities and costs associated with a traditional B2B model, BCM drives greater product innovation, increased speed to market and greater levels of customer satisfaction and retention.

The BCM suite comprises five key modules that optimizes your trading community and provides comprehensive visibility into your supply chain and spans the transactions and communications that power your business, enabling you to collaborate with your trading partners. The modular nature of BCM applications enable companies to add value incrementally, allowing quick adoption as business needs require and the ability to scale for future growth.

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Hear from the experts:

1. In its recent "First Take" report titled "Inovis Stakes a Claim in B2B Market." Gartner analysts provide high-level analysis of recent Inovis-related events in the market.
2. AMR Research published a research article titled "Inovis Rolls Out Its Multienterprise Expert Services Hub." The article by AMR Research's John Fontanella provides analysis of the Inovis Business Community Management strategy and how the company's recent launch of the Inovis Multienterprise Expert Services Hub (MESH) platform and its acquisition of Freeway Commerce, Ltd in the United Kingdom align with this new corporate vision.
3. Current Analysis report on MESH