SEEBURGER's B2B integration platform deployed by Bruce Power

Canadian company Bruce Power has deployed SEEBURGER’s business-to-business (B2B) platform. The company will be using the SEEBURGER Business Integration Server (BIS) and add-on Hub & Spoke system to automate the exchange of purchase orders and related documents with nearly 3,000 vendors, including as many as 500 suppliers who still do business on paper.

 

SEEBURGER is a provider of business integration solutions designed to optimize transactions throughout the extended enterprise by automating trading relationships with all partners regardless of their size and technical resources. Bruce Power is a private nuclear generating company and claims to be the source of more than 20 percent of Ontario's electricity.

 

SEEBURGER's platform has replaced an outsourced electronic data interchange (EDI) service with an in-house B2B gateway that is being used to restructure the business processes associated with procuring tens of thousands of parts required to maintain Bruce Power's eight nuclear reactors. SEEBURGER's software has been integrated with PassPort by Ventyx, Bruce Power's enterprise asset management system, enabling orders generated by PassPort to be automatically translated and transmitted to suppliers as well as allowing supplier messages such as purchase order acknowledgements to be automatically populated into the PassPort database.

 

"Every aspect of ordering parts to keep our equipment in working order is mission-critical, and that includes the EDI system we use to automate the transaction flow," said Keith Wettlaufer, CFO & EVP, Finance & Commercial Services, for Bruce Power. "We selected SEEBURGER as our first in-house EDI provider because they offer a proven platform, small-supplier connectivity solutions that will virtually eliminate the need for paper-based transaction processing, and the shortest learning curve and strongest customer references of any vendor we evaluated."

 

Bruce Power is using SEEBURGER's fully integrated AS/2 extension to allow all EDI messages to be routed securely over the Internet using the AS/2 communication protocol without the need for a Value Added Network (VAN) and associated fees.

 

SEEBURGER will provide Bruce Power’s IT staff easy drag-and-drop message mapping. This is essential for staffs that do not have previous EDI experience. The B2B integration will also save the company thousands of dollars in monthly service fees. End-to-end visibility of transactions can also be obtained with SEEBURGER's advanced message tracking tools.