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Cyber Monday – How EDI increasingly powers Online Shopping
Cyber Monday is here! Although Monday is the official kickoff of the online holiday shopping season it certainly did not…
Read more »Upgrading Your Treasury Management System? Five Questions to Consider about Bank Connectivity
Are you in the process of upgrading your Treasury Management System (TMS)? So are many other Global 1000 organizations. At…
Read more »How do you go about expanding your B2B platform into a new market? – Part2
In this blog I would like to discuss some of the more technical considerations that have to be taken into…
Read more »E-Invoicing and EDI – What we can Learn from the French
Electronic invoicing isn’t new; it has been around for over 20 years in the shape of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).…
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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…
Read more » B2B Integration will play a critical role in the Second Economy
Earlier this month W. Brian Arthur published an excellent article in the McKinsey Quarterly about “The Second Economy.” By the…
Read more »EDI, XML and the Metric System
When people learn that I work in the B2B e-commerce sector one of the questions they always ask me is…
Read more »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…
Read more »All the Technology Giants are Investing in B2B Integration
SAP announced this morning that it plans to fully acquire Crossgate. This is good news for the B2B integration sector…
Read more »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…
Read more »Understanding the Basics of Cloud Computing
Earlier in the year I posted a blog entry discussing why manufacturing companies should consider using cloud based environments. One…
Read more »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…
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