Technologies
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How Digital Certificates Help Ensure the Security of EDI Data
When you exchange EDI documents via the Internet, the security of your data is of vital importance. It is critical…
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EIM Success Stories: Turning Information into Innovation
A major natural gas company is experiencing a higher level of internal control over its procure-to-pay process and an 85…
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Improving Transmittal Management: Three Things Document Controllers Want to Know
One of the most important topics that my Energy and Engineering customers want to talk about is transmittal management. The flow…
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What’s the difference between the 4 types of EDI acknowledgments?
When you send a document electronically to your business partner it is critical that you know for sure whether or…
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The Most Popular B2B Protocols As Chosen By You
We had a “standing room only” crowd at our recent GXS webinar, “How to Determine the Best Communications Protocol for…
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Which is Best for Your EDI Program? FTP, SFTP, FTPS, or AS2?
In my last blog, 5 Considerations When Deciding on Internet Communications Protocols, I highlighted the key factors you should consider…
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The Secret Sauce of the Document Migration Process
What does it take to migrate a document from one ECM (Enterprise Content Management) system to another? Careful planning, the…
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5 Considerations When Deciding on Internet Communications Protocols
In order for two computers to exchange files (internally or across the Internet) you will need file-handling software that follows…
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The Importance of Being Accurate
I was forwarded an article the other week that highlighted an important area of the order-to-pay process: data accuracy. It…
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A Sample EDI Document Flow in an ERS Program in the Automotive Industry
As promised in my last blog, How EDI ASNs Enable Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS), here’s a look at the wider…
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How EDI ASNs Enable Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS)
Just as with the Cross-Docking, Drop-Shipping and the Direct Store Delivery processes described in earlier posts, the ASN document is…
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German Automotive Industry to Move From VDA to Global EDIFACT Messages
The global automotive industry has grown around a collection of regional B2B standards, primarily covering documents and communication protocols. The…
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SME e-Invoicing Adoption in Europe – Part 3 The Role of Government
Many governments have, or are considering, mandating electronic invoicing and any company doing business with the public sector will be…
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Supply Chain Management Transformation: Technology Shifts the Focus from Process Efficiency to Adding Strategic Value
Cost shedding and process optimization are the typical drivers of supply chain technology purchases. No surprise there. However, according to…
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Creating a “Tabbed” HTML Report Design
I responded to a forum post the other day about having a “tabbed” output so that the user could choose…
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Marketplaces and The New Sell Side of Retail
Not every retailer is enjoying high levels of success with online sales. In fact, many are abandoning their storefronts altogether…
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How EDI ASNs Enable Warehouse Cross-Docking
The ASN is a useful document if you are looking to support cost-saving business processes like Cross-Docking. Cross-Docking is a…
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The Advance Ship Notice (ASN) — 20/20 Vision
While hindsight may be 20/20, when applied to an enterprise supply chain, it’s not as impactful as foresight. In order…
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Use JSON as a Scripted Data Set
I was doing some work with JSON this weekend and I thought it might be fun to build a scripted…
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NACHA Global Payments Forum 2013 – a GXS Waltz in Vienna
In a recent announcement GXS highlighted the reasons behind our new membership to the National Automated Clearing House Association’s Global…
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