Direct Material Supplier + Life Sciences Company

Improve communication and information exchange with your life sciences customers through real-time integration on the TraceLink network.

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TraceLink benefits

Increase collaboration and responsiveness with your manufacturing partners

The TraceLink network platform and Multienterprise Information Network Tower (MINT) solution help you to digitally connect and collaborate with your life science customers to ensure they have the API, excipients, and other materials they need to meet production and supply requirements.

Join your partner’s supply network with real-time integration provided by TraceLink.

Receive electronic forecasts for customer requirements to support better collaboration and planning.

Receive customer orders electronically with optional ERP integration, provide real-time confirmations with updates, and send shipping notices to keep manufacturing sites updated.

Integration between ERP systems ensures all constituents are operating from a single source of the truth.

Solutions to your challenges

Discover how TraceLink products can improve the agility of your supply chain to respond to changes in demand and supply while mitigating the impact of supply chain disruptions on your fulfillment and manufacturing operations.

Customer demand visibility

Planning and scheduling

Visibility and collaboration

Invoicing and payment

Electronically receive expected quarterly and annual projected material requirements from customers on the TraceLink network to improve demand planning.
Provide electronic forecast confirmations directly to customers to enable more accurate available-to-promise.
Improve alignment with manufacturing customers on quantities, due dates, order frequency to meet service level agreements (SLAs).
Enable your suppliers to improve their planning to minimize the bullwhip effect and lower costs based on better downstream demand data.

Collaborate with customers to ensure purchase orders are received with adequate lead time.
Use real-time integration of customer purchase orders to improve planning and fulfillment.
Confirm purchase orders to align on delivery quantities and dates.
Use real-time ASNs to keep receiving and manufacturing operations updated on delivery times.

Collaborate with customers in real-time to respond to purchase order changes and provide advice on potential supply disruptions.
Get visibility to the latest customer requirements.
Jointly monitor ongoing purchase order exchange and confirmation activity with customers.
Simultaneous visibility to purchase order performance supports collaboration with customers on process improvements.

Send invoices based on updated purchase orders to reduce extended payment processes.
Receive electronic remittances to streamline order-to-cash process.
Improve customer relationships with more prompt and accurate invoicing.
Reduce inefficient email and phone call follow up to resolve invoice and payment discrepancies.

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The power of orchestration

TraceLink enables you to integrate and exchange critical transactions with 100% of your direct suppliers through the world’s largest life sciences and healthcare network. See the power of orchestration between life sciences companies and direct supply partners.

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Life sciences manufacturers in the TraceLink network

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Contract manufacturers in the TraceLink network

1,650+

Direct materials suppliers in the TraceLink network

50K+

ASNs processed daily in the TraceLink network

Hear what the network is saying

See how companies have leveraged our network platform and solutions to meet critical challenges facing direct material suppliers working with life sciences customers.

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