Technologies
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. …
Read more »How B2B Outsourcing Can Help Keep ERP Projects on Schedule
In my previous blog entry I highlighted a number of business drivers that could lead a company to want to…
Read more »What are some of the key drivers for integrating ERP and B2B systems?
In my previous blog entry relating to ERP I discussed how the automotive industry has become so reliant on these…
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Where Supplier Portals Went Wrong
There is no dispute that portals have changed supply chains forever. However, as with many disruptive technologies, not only has…
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Benefits of Supplier Portals
Portals were one of the innovative new technologies introduced during the dot com era. But unlike marketplaces, exchanges and other…
Read more » Managing Cash–Visibility is Key
With Thanksgiving and Black Friday now behind us, the Holiday Season has officially kicked off in the States. For consumers,…
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It’s Not Easy—Green Banking Continues to Grow
“It’s not easy being green.” When this tune started floating around my head for this post, I thought Kermit the…
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What can Dominos Pizza Teach us About Supply Chain Visibility?
Last weekend we had some friends over to visit our house and rather than cooking we decided to place an…
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The Long Tail of B2B Standards
In July 2006 Chris Anderson published a book called The Long Tail which illustrated how new Internet business models from…
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