Bayer selects OpenText Business Network Cloud Enterprise for B2B integration
OpenText said that German healthcare major Bayer has selected OpenText Business Network Cloud Enterprise as a solution for certain B2B integration activities within the consumer health and pharmaceuticals divisions to boost agility and enhance operational efficiencies.
According to OpenText, the collaboration was started with a proof-of-concept, which will be followed by roll-out activities.
Bayer through the deployment of Business Network Cloud Enterprise, will streamline and improve collaboration with partner companies, allowing the group to focus on its main business.
Björn-Christian Volckmann – Bayer Global Process Owner Order-2-Cash, Commercial Operations (Consumer Health & Pharmaceuticals) said: “We expect that our collaboration with OpenText, from the onboarding of customers through its roll out, is poised to have a significant impact on our global processes.
“As a global B2B EDI provider and trusted partner, OpenText will provide curated support and enable us to continue prioritizing leading edge solutions that will make a difference in communities around the world today, and well into the future.”
Bayer selects OpenText Business Network Cloud Enterprise for B2B integration. Photo courtesy of Fridolin freudenfett/Wikimedia Commons.
Through its Business Network Cloud Enterprise solution, OpenText is said to help with day-to-day activities related to B2B integrations of organizations.
By management of systems, integration, and partner onboarding and monitoring of transactions, OpenText enables companies to concentrate on their core strengths while gaining access to real-time insights into business performance and a simpler interaction with trading partners, and a digital backbone that links the systems, people, and things.
Muhi Majzoub — OpenText Chief Product Officer said: “With billions of B2B transactions being exchanged globally between organizations every year, successful and effective integration can be extremely costly and complex, often requiring continuous investment, specialized technology and expertise, to manage.
“By leveraging OpenText Business Network Cloud Enterprise, Bayer will be able to focus on their core business priorities with a simplified and harmonized system landscape that is backed and supported by one of the largest B2B Networks in the world.”