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Feature Description

of Btwentyfour Platform Services

1. ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

  • Account Management

This feature allows administrators to manage user accounts, including creating, updating, and deactivating accounts. It ensures that only authorized users have access to the platform, enhancing security and control.

  • Party Data - Import

Users can import data related to business parties, such as stores, websites, and subsidiaries. This helps maintain accurate and comprehensive records of all business partners in the network.

  • Party Data - Message Enrichment

Allows users to enrich messages sent through the platform with party data containing additional information, ensuring that all relevant details are captured and maintained.

  • User Management

Administrators can manage user roles and permissions, ensuring that users have appropriate access levels based on their responsibilities.

  • Notifications Matrix

Notifications Matrix allows users to configure notifications for various events, ensuring that relevant stakeholders are informed of important activities and updates.

  • Branding Logo

Businesses can customize the platform with their branding, including logos, providing a consistent brand experience for users.

  • Custom URL

This feature allows businesses to use custom URLs for their platform, enhancing brand recognition and providing a seamless user experience.

2. RELATION MANAGEMENT

  • Network exploration

Users can explore the network and manage their business relationships, identifying key partners and establish connections.

  • GLN Mapping

This feature supports the mapping of Global Location Numbers (GLNs) and internal IDs, facilitating accurate identification and tracking of business entities

  • Relation management and settings - Currency rules

This feature allows users to filter which currencies they want to distribute or receive by price type and relation. It ensures that transactions are conducted in the appropriate currencies, enhancing financial accuracy and compliance.

  • Relation management and settings - Inventory management

Users can manage access to inventory reports through the platform. This feature provides visibility into stock levels and movements, supporting efficient inventory management and decision-making.

  • Relation management and settings - Party data subscription

This feature allows users to set up subscriptions on their partners' parties, ensuring they always stay up-to-date on changes. It helps maintain accurate and current information about business partners.

  • Grouping

Users can create groups of customers for data distribution on a group level instead of a relational level. This feature enhances the efficiency and relevance of data distribution, supporting targeted communications and operations.

3. PRODUCT DATA MANAGEMENT

  • Product Master Data Base

A centralized repository for managing product master data. This feature ensures consistency and accuracy of product information across the platform.

  • Incremental uploads

Supports uploading only the changes or new data, improving efficiency and reducing the time required for data updates. It helps maintain up-to-date product information without disrupting existing data.

  • Data Validation and Harmonization

Ensures data quality and consistency across the platform. This feature validates and harmonizes data, maintaining data integrity and reliability.

  • Data Mapping

Facilitates the mapping of data fields between different systems or formats. Supports accurate data integration and interoperability.

  • Category Validations

Supports the validation of product data based on categories using configurable rules per category to ensure data integrity. This feature helps maintain accurate and organized product information.

  • Two Step Validations

Use two step validation to require richer data from your suppliers, one set of validations with the data you need to buy the products and another, more comprehensive, with data needed to sell the products closer to launch. Two step validations are triggered by the ordered products to minimize the workload for the suppliers.

  • Data Distribution

Share accurate, real-time product data across channels and partners. This feature centralizes and standardizes data, ensuring consistency and seamless integration.

  • Global/Local Feeds

Manage and distribute data within your organization to make sure the data is consistent across multiple markets.

  • Season Enrichment

Automatically populate missing order and shipping dates based on season mappings. This feature ensures that all relevant dates are accurately captured.

  • Deletion

Remove specific data as needed, maintaining data accuracy and relevance.

  • Selections

Filter and choose specific data sets for distribution, processing, or reporting. This feature supports targeted data management strategies.

  • Excel Uploads/Downloads

Streamline bulk data management with Excel templates, making it easier to import, export, and update large volumes of data.

  • Custom Excel Template

Enables the use of custom templates for data uploads and downloads. This feature provides flexibility in data management, allowing users to work with familiar formats.

  • Goods Class Conversion

Convert product classifications to match different standards or requirements, facilitating smoother data integration and compliance.

4. MEDIA

  • Media - Storage

Securely store media files within the platform, ensuring centralized access, management and distribution.

  • Media - Export

Export media files to buyers or external endpoints, with options to include all media or only new/changed files.

  • Media - Validations

Ensure media files meet required standards and specifications before distribution or export

  • Media - URL Generation

Generate secure, scrambled URLs for media files stored in the platform, ensuring authorized access.

  • Auto Validate

Automatically validate data upon upload, streamlining the workflow and reducing manual intervention.

  • Auto Publish
Automatically publish validated data, ensuring timely and accurate data distribution.
  • Send on Publish

Automatically export published data for buyers as soon as it is published, supporting efficient and targeted data distribution. Handle exceptions and export scope.

5. ORDER MANAGEMENT

  • Master Data Enrichment

Enhance your messages with additional attributes and details, ensuring comprehensive and accurate information across your business operations.

  • Message Validations

Ensure data integrity and compliance by validating messages during the preparation phase. This feature supports draft-state management, allowing for validations before finalizing messages.

  • Draft-state Messages

Manage business objects in draft mode, enabling users to make changes and validate data before finalizing. This feature supports a flexible and accurate message creation workflow.

  • Order - Creation

Create orders in directly in the platform or upload them using Excel templates, allowing users to quickly place orders.

  • Orders - Check-out validation
Validate incoming orders before export to make sure all data is enriched correctly.
  • Orders - Open/Close Orders

Manage the full lifecycle of orders from creation to completion, with the ability to open and close orders as needed.

  • Orders - Buyer Order Copy

Consume manually created orders in the platform via your order integration.

  • Orders - Custom Excel Template

Use custom Excel templates for order uploads and downloads, streamlining bulk order management and ensuring data accuracy.

  • Orders - Split

Split your orders by model and color to ensure quick allocation.

  • Order Proposal

Create order proposals and have your customers accept them to streamline order processes.

  • Order Response - Creation

Create order responses in directly in the platform or upload them using Excel templates.

  • Order Response - Action Codes Generation
Generate action codes for order responses to highlight actual changes made.
  • Order Response - Versioning

Manage different versions of order responses, ensuring accurate tracking and updates throughout the order lifecycle.

  • Order Response - Custom Excel Template

Use custom Excel templates for order response uploads and downloads, streamlining bulk order management and ensuring data accuracy.

  • Order Response - Enrichment

Enrich order responses with additional details and attributes from master data, ensuring comprehensive and accurate information.

  • Order Change

Manage order changes within the platform, validation capabilities to ensure accuracy and compliance.

  • Order Change - Enrichment, Missing Lines, Action Codes

Enrich order changes with additional details, handle missing lines, and apply action codes to ensure comprehensive and accurate order management.

  • Order Change - Custom Excel Template

Use custom Excel templates for order change uploads and downloads, streamlining bulk order management and ensuring data accuracy.

  • Despatch Advice - Creation
Specify details for goods dispatched or ready for dispatch under agreed conditions, covering single or multiple destination points and items.
  • Despatch Advice - Package Builder

Split item quantities into multiple packages, select package types, and manage how quantities are distributed across different packages. Use pre-defined packing alternatives or build you own shipment in the UI.

  • Despatch Advice - SSCC Code Generation
Manually enter or automatically generate SSCC (Serial Shipping Container Code) for packages, ensuring unique identification in transit.
  • Despatch Advice - Package Labels and Documents

Generate and attach package labels and shipment documents, streamlining logistics and tracking.

  • Despatch Advice - Annulment

Cancel or annul a despatch advice if needed.

  • Despatch Advice - Calculation of number of packages & Pallets

Automatically calculate the number of packages based on item quantities and package types, including handling non-divisible quantities.

  • Despatch Advice - Receiving Advice

Facilitate communication of received goods, confirming delivery and condition to the sender.

  • Despatch Advice - Return Announcement

Notify of goods being returned, supporting reverse logistics.

  • Invoice - Creation

Create invoice drafts from scratch, orders or despatch advices, supporting standard invoicing workflows .

  • Invoice - Split by order reference

Split invoice drafts by order reference when multiple orders are included in a despatch advice, creating individual invoices for each order.

  • Invoice - Enrichment of Payment terms form Order

Automatically enrich invoice drafts with payment terms from the referenced order, ensuring consistency and accuracy.

  • Invoice - Remittance Advice

Communicate detailed accounting information related to payments or settlements between trading partners

  • Credit Invoice
Create credit invoices to adjust or reverse previously issued invoices.

6. INVENTORY AND SALES REPORTING

  • Inventory Report

Gain real-time visibility into your product availability by displaying current stock levels across multiple locations to make informed restocking and sales decisions.

  • Inventory Report - Generic and Direct Inventory Report

Distribute a single inventory report to all customers, efficiently sharing up-to-date stock data across your network or tailor inventory updates for each customer with unique, recipient-specific reports, enhancing customer relationships and sales opportunities.

  • Sales Report

Monitor sales performance with comprehensive reports detailing product sales over a selected period, helping identify best-sellers and track trends.

  • Sales Report - Aggregation

Aggregate sales data across time periods for a consolidated view of business performance, simplifying complex data.

  • Sales Report - Enrichment

Enhance sales reports with enriched master data allowing deeper analysis and strategic planning.

  • Stock Report

Access detailed stock reports outlining opening and closing balances, goods movement, and inventory changes over time, supporting efficient inventory management

  • Relocation of goods

Track and manage the movement of goods between locations, ensuring accurate inventory records and seamless logistics

  • Quotes

Efficiently generate and manage quotes for customers, streamlining the sales process and improving customer satisfaction with quick responses and faster deal closures.

7. COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT

  • Communications Log

Track and log all communication activities within the platform, providing a comprehensive record of message activity.

  • Message Downloads

Easily download original files imported to the platform for reference or further processing by accessing the "Message in" number under "Communication" – "Messages" ​

  • Message Uploads

Manually upload various message types, such as master data files, orders, order changes etc. especially useful for parties without system integration.

  • Communication events

Monitor and manage message communications with detailed status updates for certain events.

8. INTEGRATIONS

  • Internal Format
  • External Format
  • Communication

9. ORDER MANAGEMENT TOOL

  • PartyData - Upload manufacturer and factory parties
  • Manufacturer relations
  • Orders - enrichment from masterdata
  • Orders - payment term enrichment
  • Orders - Hold orders
  • Orders - Order consolidation
  • Orders - Release/Cancel
  • Orders - Party specific PDF templates
  • OrderChange - Update rejected orders
  • Order response - Release/Cancel drafts

10. OTHER

  • General Text

Facilitate the exchange of general information within the Btwentyfour platform, supporting flexible communication needs that may not fit into other specific message categories.