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The Advance Ship Notice (ASN) — 20/20 Vision
While hindsight may be 20/20, when applied to an enterprise supply chain, it’s not as impactful as foresight. In order to reduce supply chain costs,…
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Use JSON as a Scripted Data Set
I was doing some work with JSON this weekend and I thought it might be fun to build a scripted data set from a JSON…
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NACHA Global Payments Forum 2013 – a GXS Waltz in Vienna
In a recent announcement GXS highlighted the reasons behind our new membership to the National Automated Clearing House Association’s Global Payment Forum. Last week, I…
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AS2 or Traditional EDI – Which is Better?
Companies of all sizes have found significant cost savings by automating high-volume or time-consuming processes—B2B commerce is no exception. Automating the exchange of business documents…
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How to Pass a Multi-Select Parameter to Subreport
This week I was asked a question regarding multiple value list box parameters. Additionally they wanted to know how to pass these values from a…
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Marketing automation tools and WEM
While reminiscing about a recent trip to London, England I was reminded of my travels on the Underground. With every step onto or off the…
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Why You Should Consider AS2
Electronic exchange of B2B commerce documents will help to eliminate errors, minimize processing time, and provide better visibility into your business processes. AS2 (Applicability Statement…
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Top 10 Reasons to Learn COBOL
What is the first thing which springs to mind when you think of COBOL? Did you know that 200 times more transactions are processed daily by COBOL business applications than there are Google and You Tube searches made? COBOL is not about to drop dead – it still dominates the business language world. Here are our top ten reasons for learning COBOL.
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Eight Ways to Mitigate Operational Risk in the Cloud for Financial Services
GXS recently sponsored a webinar titled “Compliance in the Cloud: Raising the Bar in Financial Services.” CEB TowerGroup Senior Research Director Rod Nelsestuen joined me…
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How B2B Integration Automates the Procure-to-Pay Cycle for Manufacturing Companies
Large companies in the aerospace, automotive, high tech and industrial manufacturing sector purchase trillions of dollars of goods every year. Most of the purchases consist…
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Banking & Web Services: The File is Dead, Long Live the API
Today most, if not all, financial transactions flowing between Banks, Financial Institutions, Corporates, Government agencies, Insurance companies and Securities counterparties are based on files. In…
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Benefits of using ASNs (Advanced Shipment Notices)
I continue to be surprised by at how many companies are still not requiring Advanced Shipment Notices (ASNs) from their suppliers. Advanced shipment notices provide…
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