Connected processes
Software is good at moving data inside a company. The work between systems and between companies still runs on email and follow-up. A connected process is the fix: one workflow that reads from your systems, coordinates with your partners, and writes approved results back.
Anatomy
Most operational work fails in the seams: between systems that don't talk, and between companies that coordinate over email. A connected process closes both seams at once.
Examples
Each process follows the same shape: a trigger in a system of record, coordinated steps across systems and partners, and an outcome written back with evidence.
Supplier Collaboration
Trigger
A purchase order is released in your ERP.
Connected steps
Outcome
Every order has an answer and a date — before the deadline, not after it.
Supplier Collaboration
Trigger
The supplier is ready to ship against an order.
Connected steps
Outcome
The warehouse knows what is coming, and disputes start from shared facts.
Supplier Collaboration
Trigger
The supplier invoices against a shipped order.
Connected steps
Outcome
Your team touches only the invoices that actually need a human.
Export Compliance
Trigger
An order, customer or shipment crosses a border.
Connected steps
Outcome
Screening happens inside the order flow, not as a separate afterthought.
Order & Inventory Management
Trigger
Stock or orders change in any connected channel.
Connected steps
Outcome
One inventory truth across every place you sell.
Implementation
A connected process goes live in stages, and each stage is reversible. Supplier Collaboration is available today; Export Compliance and Order & Inventory Management are in design-partner discovery.
Link your ERP, accounting and commerce systems through the managed connection layer. Read-first: nothing is written until you say so.
Set the process rules — deadlines, required fields, approval thresholds and who gets alerted on which exception.
Bring suppliers, customers or 3PLs in under your company's name. They respond in a simple workspace, no integration project on their side.
The process executes between systems and partners. Humans approve anything consequential; everything is audited.
Connections run on a managed connection layer that handles authentication with each system, so your team never maintains credentials or per-system plumbing. See the integration catalog for the systems we connect, and how a connection is set up.
When it fits
Not every problem needs a Connected App. Here is an honest read of the alternatives — each linked to a deeper comparison.
Work until volume or partner count grows; then answers, versions and evidence scatter across inboxes.
Compare with emailMoves documents reliably between large partners, but leaves the people and the exceptions outside the documents.
Compare with EDISyncs data between two systems, but nobody owns the workflow, the approvals, or the audit trail.
Compare with custom integrationConnects the systems and runs the process between them — workflow, partner responses, approvals and write-back in one place.
See the comparisonsMost teams begin with purchase order collaboration against their real supplier base, then extend. We will walk your open orders in a working session.
