Antera connects your team to the promotional products industry through PromoStandards supplier connectivity and integrations with leading product search platforms, including SAGE and ASI ESP.
Search for products, check supplier inventory, create orders, transmit purchase orders, and track supplier activity while keeping product and order information connected to your Antera workflow.
The result is faster product sourcing, less duplicate entry, better supplier visibility, and fewer systems for your sales and purchasing teams to manage.
Search Products Through SAGE and ESP
Your sales team already relies on industry product search engines. Antera helps connect those resources directly to your sales process.
With connectivity to SAGE and ASI ESP, users can search the industry's extensive product databases and bring selected products into Antera to continue the sales process.
This allows your team to move efficiently from:
Search → Select → Present → Quote → Order
Instead of finding a product and manually recreating it in another system, product information can be integrated into the Antera workflow.
Turn Product Searches Into Presentations and Sales
Finding the product is only the beginning.
Once products are brought into Antera, your team can use them throughout the sales process—including Presentations, Sourcing, Quotes, and Orders.
This creates a more connected workflow between product discovery and actually winning the business.
PROMOSTANDARDS / SAGE / ESP → Antera → Presentation → Quote → Order
Your salespeople spend less time entering product information and more time selling.
Check Supplier Inventory
Know what's available before you sell it.
Antera uses PromoStandards inventory connectivity to access inventory information from participating suppliers. Your team can check product availability as part of its normal workflow, rather than repeatedly visiting supplier websites or contacting suppliers.
Better inventory visibility helps reduce the risk of recommending or ordering products that aren't available.
Send Purchase Orders Electronically
Once an order is ready for purchasing, Antera can use PromoStandards electronic ordering to transmit purchase orders directly to participating suppliers.
This eliminates many of the manual steps associated with entering orders on supplier websites or sending purchase orders separately.
Customer Order → Purchase Order → Supplier
Less rekeying means less administrative work, faster processing, and fewer opportunities for errors.
Track Supplier Order Status
Sending the purchase order shouldn't be the end of your visibility.
With available PromoStandards order-status connectivity, Antera can retrieve supplier order information to help your team track purchase status.
Instead of constantly visiting supplier websites, emailing suppliers, or making status calls, employees can access more of the information they need through their Antera workflow.
Track Shipments and Deliveries
Supplier connectivity can continue through fulfillment.
Available shipment and tracking information from participating suppliers can flow back into Antera, helping your team understand what's shipping, when it's expected, and whether an order may require attention.
Better visibility means customer service can answer questions faster while operations can identify potential delays earlier.
Eliminate Supplier Website Hopping
Without connectivity, sales and purchasing teams can spend a significant portion of their day moving between systems to:
Search for products
Check inventory
Verify availability
Enter product information
Create supplier orders
Check order status
Find tracking information
Antera brings these activities into a more connected process using SAGE, ESP, PromoStandards, and Antera’s own workflow capabilities.
Connect the Entire Supplier Workflow
Antera connects product discovery with the operational processes that follow:
Search SAGE or ESP → Select Product → Create Presentation or Quote → Create Order → Check Inventory → Generate PO → Send to Supplier → Track Status → Receive → Ship → Invoice
The information continues to move while your team manages the process in Antera.
Manage by Exception
The goal of connectivity isn't simply to provide more data. It's to help employees spend their time where it matters.
By automating routine supplier interactions and bringing status information into Antera, your team can focus on exceptions such as inventory shortages, supplier delays, shipment issues, and other issues that require human attention.
Key Benefits
✓ PromoStandards Integration — Connect electronically with participating promotional products suppliers.
✓ SAGE Connectivity — Search industry products and bring selections into the Antera sales workflow.
✓ ASI ESP Connectivity — Connect product discovery with presentations, quotes, and orders.
✓ Inventory Visibility — Check supplier inventory and availability.
✓ Electronic Purchase Orders — Send purchase orders electronically to supported suppliers.
✓ Order Status — Gain visibility into supplier order progress.
✓ Shipment & Tracking Information — Access available shipping and tracking information.
✓ Less Duplicate Entry — Reduce manual product and order rekeying between systems.
✓ Faster Product Sourcing — Move from product discovery to presentation, quote, and order faster.
✓ Connected Sales & Operations — Connect product search, selling, purchasing, receiving, and fulfillment.
From Product Search to Supplier Fulfillment
Antera connects the tools your salespeople use to find products with the supplier technology your operations team uses to fulfill orders.
With SAGE and ESP product search connectivity combined with PromoStandards inventory, ordering, status, and shipping integrations, Antera creates a connected workflow from the first product search through final fulfillment.
Search. Source. Sell. Order. Track. Deliver.