tBN now gives you the power to integrate with Ariba's Punchout solution, linking your business to purchasing organization using Ariba Buyer and the Ariba Network. This means that you no longer have to lose business to the e-Market power channels because now you can offer Ariba integration to your Fortune 500 customers.

What's Ariba?

Ariba is a business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce platform and network services provider. A buying organization (typically fortune 500) using the Ariba network typically uses the e-procurement system known as the Ariba Buyer. The Ariba Buyer system is essentially a buying platform that a company uses for all of their procurement needs. The system consolidates and unifies the buying process -- removing the difficulty that organizations face in dealing with many different purchasing technologies offered by their trading partners. But in order to work with an organization that uses the Ariba Buyer system, a supplier must become what some refer to as "Ariba Compliant". Compliance means that the supplier is capable of displaying their catalog in the correct format and is able to send and receive Purchase Order information.

tBN now makes this capability available to our subscribers.

How does it work?

At the basic level, here's how it works.
The buyer selects your product catalog from the Ariba Buyer application which takes the buyer to your tBN eBusiness storefront. The buyer fills their shopping cart with the items they want and then goes to the 'Proceed to checkout' process. The checkout process then returns the buyer and the items in the shopping cart back to the Ariba Buyer system. When the order is processed and completed through the Ariba Buyer application, a purchase order is generated and sent to your tBN eBusiness storefront via the Ariba Network. The purchase order is then converted into an order and waiting for you to process.

You receive the order just as if the buyer placed the order through your storefront.

Proven.  Open.  Flexible.   Integrated  and designed for end-to-end real-time collaborative eBusiness.

To learn more, contact tBN for additional information.