The TradeStone
MLM Platform

TradeStone's Merchandise Lifecycle Management platform layers over existing legacy and enterprise systems, providing one unified view and infrastructure that supports the design to delivery of private label and branded merchandise.

Our leadership role in industry standards organizations such as ARTS (Association for Retail Technology Standards, where we co-founded and co-chair the PLM for Retail Standards Committee) underscores the TradeStone commitment to retail-focused, standards-based architecture, tools, and interfaces. This assures our customers of a straightforward, high performance, sustainable integration to the rest of their operational systems, one which minimizes TCO.

Standards-Based Integration

Integrating into existing enterprise systems is a requirement for all TradeStone Software customers. Our software is architected to easily integrate with any standards-based enterprise application. Utilizing standard templates and predefined integration packages we are able to avoid complicated custom integration efforts, speeding implementation, managing risk, and reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).

Our software is HTTP and SOAP compliant and currently support over 120 different web services, with more being added regularly. Our MLM solution is integrated with planning, design, finance, logistics, content management and business intelligence applications as well as customer-external suppliers and transportation providers.

Standard integration templates include:

TradeStone’s solutions are designed using SOA (services oriented architecture) and is IBM SOA certified. Messaging integration is achieved through WebSphere MQ or JMS (java messaging service). We also utilize third party translation tools that the customer may employ such as TIBCO, WebMethods or Informatica.

TradeStone also maintains preconfigured XML/XSD definitions including:

• Product Brief
• Quotes/Items
• Plan Buy
• Purchase Orders
• Packing Lists
• Customs Entry
• Vendor Profiles
• Invoices (Commercial Invoice, Service Invoice, Entry Invoice)
• Letters of Credit
• Payments
• Advanced Ship Notice
• Receipts

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