Wipro and Cisco Integrate B2B Procurement Suite

Cisco and Wipro Infotech Tuesday announced the successful completion of Wipro’s (News - Alert) business-to-business (B2B) procurement suite, RosettaNet Partner Interface Processes (PIP), at Cisco offices in India.

 

The integration of the B2B procurement suite allows sales teams from Cisco (News - Alert) and Wipro to access real-time information on pricing and product catalog updates, configuration and ordering processes, order status updates and shipment notifications.

 

RosettaNet organization creates and maintains PIPs to provide common business-process definitions for all its message exchanges, describes Microsoft Technet.

 

Each PIP specification provides a document type definition (DTD) file and a message guideline document, according to Technet. The DTD file defines the service-content message structure. The message-guideline document, which is a human-readable HTML file, specifies element-level constraints. Together, they provide a complete definition of the business process.

 

There are many advantages of the B2B integration between Cisco and Wipro procurement systems, the companies said. It allows significant time reduction for Wipro in preparing and submitting purchase orders to Cisco, resulting in an increase in the orders.

 

“This B2B implementation integrates the key business process by uniting the people, suppliers (Cisco), payment partner (GE) and freight forwarder (Panalpina),” reads a media statement. “By engaging each of these companies in a common set of goals, it helps to achieve a pace and differentiate Wipro in the marketplace, thus enhancing productivity and value addition to all stakeholders.”

 

Both Cisco and Wipro have decided to strategize and focus on areas where Wipro can take advantage of Cisco’s internal B2B capabilities. The association derived through the B2B engagement will further allow them to work collaboratively on more mutually beneficial initiatives in other areas.

 

Cisco and Wipro develop B2B solutions for healthcare, financial services, retail, real estate and transportation. They can leverage the benefits of the integrated B2B procurement solution in these areas.

 

Ravi Shankar, head of operations, Wipro Infotech, explains, “Our Internal approval process has been integrated with this system.  Once the purchase order is released in Wipro SAP (News - Alert) system, the purchase order is automatically routed to the Cisco server, avoiding dual order logging.”

 

The B2B link was implemented without disrupting the day-to-day activities of the sales and operations teams. After implementing the integrated system, adherence to process has improved across the board, adds Shankar.

 

“This initiative has been a stepping stone to push automation in to the ordering process and develop competence in IS enabling of Order management - right from forecasting customer requirements to delivering correctly and in time,” Shankar states.

 

“It is great to work with a Channel Partner (News - Alert) who clearly sees the value of B2B,” explains  R. Dhamodaran, head of Channels and Commercial Strategy, Cisco India & SAARC, in a statement. “The recent implementation of the status solution is a perfect example to know that doing B2B in a dynamic environment is possible.”

 

“The demonstration of the value B2B brings totally aligns with the mutual objectives of growth, productivity and enhanced partner experience,” Dhamodaran adds.