"In this tough economic environment, we are taking a proactive approach to helping drive revenues by arming our sales team with the critical information they need to maximize sales growth opportunities within our contracted business. As a result, Schwan's selected ITN as a key component of our overall trade spend initiative and strategy." Schwan’s Food Service, Inc.

Manufacturers - even those with the best products, most talented employees, and strongest brands - struggle to control costs, identify growth opportunities, and maximize their existing investments in technology. The intricacies of the food supply chain make communicating and collaborating with trading partners a challenge. Add to that a lack of effective industry data standards, a common methodology for sharing information, or robust analytics to leverage the information and the result is that manufacturers are confronted with higher operational costs and fewer market opportunities to improve revenue and profitability.

The key to addressing these challenges is a collaborative marketplace with where all of your trading partners are fueled by current, accurate and actionable information. ITN provides manufacturers with information, tools and services to improve business processes, operating margins and collaboration with their trading partners resulting in:

• Greater market visibility
• Increased contract compliance
• Increased efficiencies and accuracy in the order-to-invoice and trade spend settlement processes
• Better trade spend program performance
• Increased accuracy of information feeding home grown or third party systems

ITN partners with 75 of the top 100 manufacturers including Campbells, ConAgra, General Mills, and Schwan's enabling them to maximize optimize their trade programs, collaborate with their trading partners and gain visibility and control over their procurement processes.