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Heutzutage kämpfen die Industrieunternehmen ständig darum, die Zuverlässigkeit ihrer Anlagen aufrechtzuerhalten, die Wartungskosten zu senken, die Sicherheit zu verbessern und kostspielige Ausfallzeiten zu vermeiden. Herkömmliche…
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…
August 10, 2012 • 4 minute read
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…
July 15, 2012 • 3 minute read
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 – one of the decisions you…
June 13, 2012 • 5 minute read
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 spend management and procure-to-pay applications,…
May 23, 2012 • 5 minute read
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 using just your browser. It…
December 20, 2011 • 2 minute read
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 of business partners? What are…
November 02, 2011 • 4 minute read
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 document to implement, but largely…
September 29, 2011 • 8 minute read
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 small software company called iSoft….
September 09, 2011 • 2 minute read
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 growing on-line footwear retailer Zappos.com….
February 15, 2011 • 5 minute read
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 buyer should self-generate the invoice based…
February 12, 2011 • 3 minute read
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 e-discovery, it is often easier…
November 11, 2010 • 5 minute read
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 and business processes. However, in…
October 07, 2010 • 3 minute read