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How EDI helps Small Business – A Case Study
One of the best small business case studies that I have seen recently is Maclean’s Highland Bakery. Macleans produces a…
Read more »How will Cloud Computing Benefit the Manufacturing Industry?
I have been working in the IT industry for nearly 20 years now and I have always worked very closely…
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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…
Read more » 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…
Read more »Is the Digital Supply Chain simpler than the Physical Supply Chain?
With the AppStore surpassing 10B downloads last weekend it is fair to say that the digital supply chain is booming. …
Read more »Will AS4 Become the Communications Standard for Cloud Based Integration Services?
2010 has certainly been the year when Cloud Computing has started to get on to the agenda of many CIOs…
Read more »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…
Read more »New Research – The Need for Customer-Centric Supply Chains
In two days, GXS and SCM World will be announcing the results of a research study conducted this June by…
Read more »How Does Your Company Measure Supply Chain Complexity?
Today’s supply chains are very complex with suppliers having to service customers in different industries, across many different countries around…
Read more »Who has the Largest B2B Integration Network?
Since IBM’s acquisition of Sterling Commerce in May there has been a lot of discussion about the consolidation of B2B…
Read more »Ring of Fire: Time for G2G Standards
Last week, German Chancellor, Angela Merkel seemed to echo the sentiments of John Donne when she said; “if the euro…
Read more »EBICS – The Standard for Corporate-to-Bank Communication?
2010 is an exciting time in the world of B2B integration standards for the European banking sector. In this case,…
Read more »Managing Transformative Insurance Reform
Earlier today, US President Barack Obama signed into law a healthcare reform bill that will mandate major fundamental change in…
Read more »80% of Manufacturers Experience 1% or Greater Error Processing for Supply Chain Transactions
In 2009 we conducted a study on the inter-relationships of B2B e-commerce deployments and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects. One…
Read more »Could Community Source be a Better Approach for Supply Chain Applications?
In my last post I described the relatively small number of B2B integration vendors which have embraced open source. I…
Read more »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…
Read more »Modernization vs. Innovation: Getting Ahead in the Era of the New Normal
For the past 18 months (or there about), analysts, journalists, bloggers and sometimes people who are all three rolled into…
Read more »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…
Read more »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,…
Read more »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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