Supply Chain Integration

OpenText Trading Grid

Connect once, reach anything. Go beyond trading partners. Seamlessly integrate people, processes, and things.

44%
of companies regard digital transformation as a top driver for B2B integration [1]

Overview

Unify your B2B integration strategy with OpenText Trading Grid

OpenText™ Trading Grid™ is a unified B2B trading partner management and integration platform that allows companies to connect once to our trading partner network of over 1 million pre-connected companies and reach internal and external people, processes, and things across an extended digital ecosystem. With its cutting-edge data and application integration technologies, Trading Grid facilitates comprehensive business-to-anything integration and communication within a unified cloud-native platform.

Why choose OpenText Trading Grid

The power of our the network

  • Single unified trading partner platform

    Significantly reduce trading partner onboarding time by leveraging a pre-connected community of more than 1 million companies around the world.

  • Single unified platform

    Support complex integration needs with a single environment to digitize external supply chain operations and seamlessly integrate internal business systems.

  • Trusted global leader

    Leverage 40+ years of experience in providing reliable, highly available global messaging services including data mapping, compliance and community management.

  • AI-based and future proofed

    Turn complex B2B integrations into simple engagements with generative AI-based trading partner community management, issue resolution, and assistance and guidance.

How Trading Grid can benefit business

Explore how Trading Grid can transform your B2B operations and drive growth.

  • Reduce costs

    Reach all trading partners and send information in any format via a single connection, lowering costs of in-house EDI tools by 40% on average [2].

  • Increase operational productivity

    Improve efficiency, on-time delivery rates and inventory turnover with operational control and faster, more accurate business transactions.

  • Speed time to revenue

    Comply with ecommerce requirements and start taking orders faster with accelerated customer onboarding.

  • Accelerate trading partner onboarding

    Easily connect, communicate,  and collaborate with new trading partners using the pre-connected trading partner community and extensive self-service tools.

  • Build a future-proof integration environment

    Quickly establish a digital foundation across the extended business ecosystem to enable business growth and support future digital transformation initiatives.

  • Modernize the B2B integration experience

    Increase efficiency and make the right decisions faster with a built-in conversational, private generative AI-based, self-service virtual advisor.

Features

  • Flexible universal connectivity

    Provides universal data format translation with robust data validation through an advanced mapping and translation engine, supporting diverse B2B vertical industry and regional standards as well as all major communication protocols.

  • Performance and reliability

    Enables near real-time document exchange and efficient management by exception, and leverages OpenText global data centers to ensure business continuity and fast mission-critical business transactions.

  • Powerful suite of SaaS applications

    Supports procurement, logistics and inventory management activities with OpenText Active Applications, a dedicated suite of business applications that leverages transactions exchanged across the platform.

  • Intuitive user interface with self-service features

    Offers a single, convenient self-service portal that gives users control of certain aspects of their integration environment such as partner onboarding, map collaboration and change management.

  • Enterprise integration

    Features a pre-built library of more than 200 API connectors to rapidly connect to and between internal business applications, such as ERP and supply chain applications.

  • Visibility, alerting and analytics

    Offers operational-level data visibility into all integration flows to give both technical and business users extended insights into operational and business performance.

Take advantage of OpenText and partner services

Deployment

OpenText offers deployment choice and flexibility for Trading Grid.

Professional services

OpenText Consulting Services combines end-to-end solution implementation with comprehensive technology services to help improve systems.

Training

OpenText Learning Services offers comprehensive enablement and learning programs to accelerate knowledge and skills.

Communities

Explore our OpenText communities. Connect with individuals and companies to get insight and support. Get involved in the discussion.

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Trading Grid resources

OpenText Trading Grid Engage

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Learn how OpenText eases SAP S/4HANA migration with modern integration

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How OpenText leads with the largest modern EDI VAN

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Supercharge your supply chain management with GenAI

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Introducing a tiered approach to business integration for companies of any size

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Managed Services for Complex Integration

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OpenText Lens

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Footnotes

Footnotes

  1. [1]IDG MarketPulse survey, Taking a Managed Services Approach to Complex B2B Integration, September 2021.
  2. [2] Stanford University Supply Chain Forum Study, 2013.