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Liaison Athena: A Win-Win EDI Solution for You and Your Trading Partners
Even after implementing sweeping EDI systems that dramatically
For you, the hub, Athena provides a cloud-based partner network
improve all aspects of supply chain productivity, companies often
that brings all document exchange into the realm of EDI for seamless
find themselves maintaining their old document exchange systems
back-end integration across your entire supply chain. For your
in parallel. The most common reason for this less-than-ideal
trading partners, Athena provides a web-based forms system that
redundancy is the need to continue accommodating smaller
enables easy compliance with your document specifications and
trading partners that are either unable, or unwilling, to adopt
workflow, while completely masking the underlying complexity
EDI technology.
of EDI.
While it’s expected that some members of your supply chain will need to be a barrier to the advantages your company will realize
Integration with the Rest of Your Supply Chain
from a single method of document exchange. Especially when
With Athena in place, your organization will hand off and pick
there is Liaison Athena, a managed hub and spoke EDI solution
up EDI data through one easy connection to the Liaison Cloud
that is equally appealing to both you and your trading partners.
Integration Platform. Liaison’s platform will do everything else,
never embrace EDI as a transforming technology, this does not
Liaison Athena
delivering data to and from your trading partner’s Athena mailboxes, as well as transforming the data between EDI and the web-based forms used by Athena. By allowing Liaison to handle all the unique aspects of this solution, data exchanged with Athena partners is transparent to your back-end integration operations.
Even though your custom Athena solution is built by Liaison and hosted in the cloud, you retain control and visibility over all trading partner interactions via Athena Community Manager, a SaaS (Software as a Service) hub-facing portal that provides three key levels of management:
a combination of both. Either way, you and your partners will
Appealing to Your Trading Partners With an environment as familiar as email, your trading partners will also find Athena appealing. It’s easy-to-use, feature-rich interface enhances EDI compliance without requiring any EDI know-how: Attractive HTML forms for data entry
Community management. At the community level you can
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Data compliance
customize the look and feel of the Athena portal, publish
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Automated functional acknowledgment generation
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Document arrival alerts
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Bar code generation
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Interface language customization
Trading partner management. At the trading partner level you can easily onboard or inactivate trading partners, search and filter on trading partners and run extensive reports on trading partner activity.
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passed on to trading partners. Or the Athena pay model can reflect
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time-based alerts and bulletins and manage archive policies. •
Athena pricing is flexible. Hubs can retain all costs or costs can be
benefit from economies of scale and low cost of entry.
Total Control
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Flexible Pricing
To learn more about the features Athena offers your partners, view the Athena demo located in our Resource Center or contact
Form management. At the form level you can control form
us at
[email protected].
enrollment, production status, message flow and terms.
Rollout Assistance With many years of EDI experience and many Athena implementations, Liaison is perfectly poised to assist in driving adoption. Athena rollout assistance can include promotion, training and testing. For your global partners, assistance efforts can be coordinated with Liaison’s global offices located in Europe and the United Kingdom.
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