In a post earlier this week I outlined the reasons why suppliers should stop invoicing their customers in many circumstances. Instead, the buyer should self-generate the invoice based…

Often, you want to limit a search to a specified date range. Sounds easy enough. But like so much in e-discovery, it is often easier…

Standards enjoy a unique challenge in private industry sectors.  Standards require competitors to agree upon consistent approaches to technology implementations and business processes.  However, in…

I encountered a forum qustion recently asking about creating a calendar view in a BIRT report to show a job number within a calendar view…

BIRT’s standard options for page breaking is to set a page break interval on a table, set a before/after page break on groups, and to…

One of the best strategy concepts that I have encountered in recent years is Dr. Hau Lee of Stanford University’s Triple-A Supply Chain.  Dr. Lee…

After reading my earlier post on B2B e-Marketplaces, someone asked me – Why write about the B2B e-Marketplaces?  It was a long time ago and…

Some call it the Golden Age of B2B e-Commerce.  Others call it the height of insanity.  Regardless of your perspective, it is difficult to argue…

Of all the various B2B Communications and Managed File Transfer (MFT) protocols in the market, HULFT is probably my favorite.  AS1 is probably a close…

There is no dispute that portals have changed supply chains forever. However, as with many disruptive technologies, not only has a new set of benefits…

Portals were one of the innovative new technologies introduced during the dot com era. But unlike marketplaces, exchanges and other failed concepts, portals successfully gained…

Last weekend we had some friends over to visit our house and rather than cooking we decided to place an order for pizza delivery from…