Appterra is a leading provider of B2B eCommerce solutions that simplify integration, automate business processes and enhance collaboration and visibility among your global trading partners. Our solutions allow companies with disparate enterprise systems to conduct business within their cloud based communities. Solutions are deployed as software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) model and provide a faster and more predictable ROI than traditional enterprise offerings. Appterra allows automation of key business processes across supply chains, resulting in increased efficiency, improved visibility and risk mitigation of your increasingly complex trading partner network. Our solutions and services allow your entire supply chain to Integrate, Connect, Collaborate and Coordinate. Appterra is the business ecommerce division of Summa Technology Group, Inc – an international technology services and solutions organization.

1. Connect
Communicate
Collaborate
Mitigate
Coordinate

2. Supply Chain
Optimization via
Integrated Vendor
Managed Inventory
Optimizing the supply chain and creating lasting
customer relationships is critical in every industry. The
supply chain universally consists of a disparate set of
systems that struggle to talk to one another. That lack
of communication makes optimization very challenging.
Applying cloud-based B2B integration technology to this
problem allows for the implementation of fully automated
Integrated Vendor Managed Inventory (IVMI) solutions.
Appterra is a market leader in managed integration
services and has a set of solutions designed to create
tight, lasting and economically efficient trading partner
relationships.
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3. The Goals of Integrated
IVMI
IVMI solutions are a critical component of driving supply
chain efficiency and customer satisfaction:
Visible • Visibility: Integrated VMI requires full supply chain
visibility. Where are the products? What’s selling?
Optimized
What’s not? Without visibility how could we optimize?
Efficient
• Optimization: Integrated VMI provides optimized
inventory allocation throughout the supply chain.
By monitoring supply chain activity over time, VMI
algorithms can provide predictive recommendations
for future shipments. The goal is to prevent stock-
out conditions without over allocating, over producing
and over distributing.
• Efficiency: Integrated VMI, when properly
implemented, drives supply chain efficiency via
optimized use of capital, improved GMROI and
efficient allocation of human capital.
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4. The Connection
between B2B
Integration and
Integrated VMI
Integrated VMI requires electronic visibility into the
transaction flow across the distribution network. B2B
integration solutions, such as Appterra’s managed
integration hub, provide transport mechanisms,
document translation, archiving and business analytics
that enable effective Integrated VMI deployments.
It’s not possible to optimize the supply chain unless
accurate and timely transaction data is available for
analysis. B2B integration hubs have full visibility into
the flow of orders and therefore can be used to create
predictive inventory allocation recommendations.
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5. By using a B2B integration hub to enable Integrated
VMI, we facilitate accurate forecasting, can react
immediately to pre-configured inventory trigger points
and generate a wealth of historical data for future
refinement of our allocation decisions. When properly
implemented, the algorithms use historical patterns
and supply chain variables (e.g. transit time, safety-
stock preferences, customer usage patterns) to provide
the best recommendations to account managers
responsible for ensuring customer satisfaction.
Appterra is a technology solution provider that
specializes in Integration-as-a-Service in the petro-
chemical sector and also for mid-market manufacturers.
Appterra’s services are enabled by a proprietary
trading community management platform that includes
solutions specifically tailored for Integrated VMI:
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6. Why Appterra?
• Full integration between the B2B integration hub and
the VMI algorithms
Fully • Preconfigure (packaged) system-to-system adapters
Automated • Scalable self-service trading partner management
& Integrated
portal
• Event driven notifications
Archivable • Predictive analytics
Transaction • Auto-archiving of historical transaction data
Reporting • Library of standard document and transaction types
Appterra’s technology is battle tested. Current
End to End
Community
deployments process millions of transaction annually
Management
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7. and integrate a vast trading community of over 4,000
participants. Appterra understands the trust associated
with implementing and managing a trading community.
We recognize that your VMI solution has bottom line
impact and is a driver of customer satisfaction. We take
that responsibility seriously.
To learn more about how Appterra can optimize your
supply chain via Integrated VMI, please visit us at www.
Appterra.com.
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8. www.appterra.com
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