Company - Customers Overview

SAA's position at the forefront of technology has resulted in major retail organisations choosing SAA's Secure Commerce solutions to support their supply chain and collaboration initiatives.

REIMS is an industry proven business communications gateway. Deployments of REIMS include the consolidation of European wide B2B activities into a single gateway, in conjunction with SAP, to support industry standard EDI and XML communications, as well as local industry standards such as transaction exchange secured by digital signatures and delimited file integration with carriers.

Other deployments in the retail sector include the implementation of REIMS for EPOS XML data collection and processing.
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SAA's experience in the field of B2B networking has led to a healthy market position in the building and construction industry.

The REIMS product suite has been implemented as the backbone B2B communications solution for many of the larger wholesalers in the building and construction sector, where reach to the wide range of suppliers and customers is key. XML message exchange by E-Mail, HTTP(S), FTP, EDI and mailbox transfer have all been deployed for electronic communications with suppliers and customers, often with critical response turnaround guarantees for the larger customers.
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The diversity of the pharmaceuticals and healthcare industry poses wide-ranging requirements, which are being met through the flexibility of SAA's secure B2B integration solutions.

One such flexible deployment includes the implementation of AS2 communications with high volume suppliers and E-Mail communications with low volume suppliers through a common ERP system interface, using HTML and XML orders sent as E-Mail attachments. Suppliers can read or print HTML attachments via a browser or, for suppliers with their own B2B capability, XML attachments can be integrated with in-house ERP systems.
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A key requirement within the manufacturing industry is often to achieve JIT (Just In Time) and Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) replenishment through closer integration with the supply chain. SAA is working with leading manufacturers and electronics organisations to build their online trading communities.

REIMS has been implemented to support communication between global manufacturers and their supplier and customer communities through a single consolidated secure B2B gateway using regional and global manufacturing industry standard messages and communications. Automated end-to-end order, delivery and invoice business cycle processing has been implemented with tier one customers using REIMS business processes to ensure tight integration with end customers.

SAA has pioneered B2B infrastructures in an industry that is at the leading edge of technology, supporting distribution and fulfilment requirements. High availability, resilience and flexibility are all key infrastructure requirements within this industry sector to ensure service level agreements are met. REIMS has been implemented at major logistics and distribution carriers to meet the most demanding of these requirements.

Many of the leading players within the food and drink industries have chosen REIMS to support their mission critical requirements. Often due to the perishable nature of goods within this supplier based industry, REIMS has been implemented in highly resilient configurations to ensure continuity of business for the receipt of orders and delivery of despatch information. All the major industry adopted communications and message standards have been implemented and integrated with ERP systems and so REIMS is fully proven in this sector to meet enterprise level business requirements.

Other deployments of REIMS include the browser-based REIMS supply chain interface to enable retailers to establish an end-to-end electronic business processing cycle with smaller suppliers to include orders, order acknowledgements, despatch advice and invoices.
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SAA works with the major companies within the automotive industry to enable them to realise the benefits of an online supplier community. SAA maintains a range of turnkey automotive client applications tailored to enable online trading with the major OEM's.

SAA Consultants is a leading independent supplier of B2B products and services throughout the financial and insurance industry.

The REIMS Secure Commerce Range has been selected by many leading insurers to provide the central B2B data gateway for transaction processing, including broker messages and proposals and to deliver the necessary infrastructure for industry compliance. More advanced techniques such as XML Web Services have also been implemented for integration with in-house systems and rapid response.

REIMS is an accredited BACSTEL-IP interface and is often deployed in this industry sector to process direct debit collections and payments to complete the business cycle. In addition REIMS has been deployed to process high volumes of PAYE submissions with HMRC.

SAA is working with a variety of public sector agencies to improve the efficiency of information exchange. This includes working with the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) to support the exchange of information between the constabularies and the Police National Computer (PNC). Data such as custody and court resulting transactions are processed through REIMS to update the PNC.

In addition REIMS has been integrated with payroll systems to communicate securely with HMRC across the Internet for PAYE end-of-year submissions and in-year movements.