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…

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…

When your company exchanges business documents electronically with your trading partners – your customers, suppliers, logistics providers and/or banks – one of the decisions you…

For retailers, meeting customer demand no longer relies on how much free space is in your back room. Online shopping has helped retailers open up…

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,…

It is not news that buying on credit (open-account) dominates global trade. The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) generally acknowledged that at least 80-85% of…

It probably goes without saying that electronic invoicing has been around for some time now, but for different reasons it is only just beginning to…

Today’s ERP environments are at the centre of many enterprise IT infrastructures, from managing employee or customer related information through to delivering information required to…

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…

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…

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….

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….