WebSphere

Title:

IBM Vendor Trade Fund Management Solution for Retail

Stream:

BPM (1)

Speakers:

Lee Gavin; Paul Smith

Abstract:

The Vendor Trade Fund Management Solution provides retailers a comprehensive set of capabilities to seamlessly interact with vendors, manage the life-cycle of trade agreements and automate complex reconciliation processes. It enables multiple LOBs (finance, legal, retail buyers, advertising) within the retailer’s organization to collaborate effectively and manage accurate agreement information using a single version across the enterprise. The business can monitor, receive alerts, and take action pro-actively on -- expiring contracts, ongoing performance of agreements, compliance of agreements during execution, delays in reconciliation, missed seasonal contracts – resulting in timely receipt of promotional funds from vendors and higher cash flow providing seamless integration with existing vendor on-boarding solutions and a framework that can be easily configured to meet individual requirements and expand the solution to include other capabilities such as promotion execution and invoicing.

This is a WebSphere Lombardi Edition and ILOG BRMS solution developed in conjunction with IBM customers and showcases IBM's capabilities within the retail industry.

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Bio:

Lee Gavin:

Lee works in the IBM Business Process and Service Optimisation team and is the solution specialist for the VTFM accelerator.

Lee has worked with the IBM BPM portfolio for over 9 years in both internal and customer facing roles but with a strong focus on proving and implementing IBM solutions in customer environments.

Paul Smith:

Paul works in the IBM Business Process and Service Optimisation team and is the solution lead for the VTFM accelerator.

He has over 6 years working with the IBM BPM portfolio in a number of customer facing roles including many hands on engagements.