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Integration
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…
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Integration
What Are The 4 Best B2B Models For Your Business?
When your company exchanges business documents electronically with your trading partners – your customers, suppliers, logistics providers and/or banks –…
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Cloud
After Abandoning Commerce One, SAP Ends Up Acquiring Ariba
Yesterday, SAP announced its intention to acquire B2B e-commerce vendor, Ariba for $4.3 billion. In addition to its suite of…
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AI & Analytics
Enable Interactivity in Your BIRT Viewer
BIRT Interactive Viewer(IV) is an end user tool that enables you to analyze and modify BIRT reports on the web…
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Integration
5 Considerations When Choosing between AS2 and FTP
AS2 and FTP are the most popular Internet Protocols used for B2B communications, but which is better for your community…
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Integration
Do you want to win with the Advance Ship Notice (ASN)? Then follow these ten best practices!
The Advance Ship Notice (ASN) continues to get a bad rap within the B2B community. I agree that is a difficult…
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Integration
AS2 and Internet EDI – Nine Years Later
On September 9th, 2002 Walmart announced its intention to shift to a new Internet-based EDI system using technology from a…
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Integration
What Zappos.com can Teach us About the Supply Chain
Over the holidays I read Tony Hseih’s excellent book Delivering Happiness. Tony, of course, is the CEO of the fast…
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Integration
Four Examples of Industries Using Self-Billing
In a post earlier this week I outlined the reasons why suppliers should stop invoicing their customers in many circumstances. Instead, the…
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eDiscovery
Common eDiscovery error #5: Blind dates
Often, you want to limit a search to a specified date range. Sounds easy enough. But like so much in…
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Integration
The Great Thing about Standards is There are So Many to Choose From
Standards enjoy a unique challenge in private industry sectors. Standards require competitors to agree upon consistent approaches to technology implementations…
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AI & Analytics
Creating a BIRT Report as a Calendar View
I encountered a forum qustion recently asking about creating a calendar view in a BIRT report to show a job…
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AI & Analytics
Custom/Dynamic Page Breaking in BIRT
BIRT’s standard options for page breaking is to set a page break interval on a table, set a before/after page…
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Integration
Dr. Hau Lee’s Triple-A Supply Chain
One of the best strategy concepts that I have encountered in recent years is Dr. Hau Lee of Stanford University’s…
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Integration
Ten Reasons the B2B e-Marketplaces Failed
After reading my earlier post on B2B e-Marketplaces, someone asked me – Why write about the B2B e-Marketplaces? It was…
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Integration
B2B e-Marketplaces – A Look Back Ten Years Later
Some call it the Golden Age of B2B e-Commerce. Others call it the height of insanity. Regardless of your perspective,…
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Integration
The Incredible HULFT – My Favorite B2B Network Protocol
Of all the various B2B Communications and Managed File Transfer (MFT) protocols in the market, HULFT is probably my favorite. …
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Integration
Where Supplier Portals Went Wrong
There is no dispute that portals have changed supply chains forever. However, as with many disruptive technologies, not only has…
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Finance & Procurement
Benefits of Supplier Portals
Portals were one of the innovative new technologies introduced during the dot com era. But unlike marketplaces, exchanges and other…
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Integration
What can Dominos Pizza Teach us About Supply Chain Visibility?
Last weekend we had some friends over to visit our house and rather than cooking we decided to place an…
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