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Eight Ways to Mitigate Operational Risk in the Cloud for Financial Services
GXS recently sponsored a webinar titled “Compliance in the Cloud: Raising the Bar in Financial Services.” CEB TowerGroup Senior Research…
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How B2B Integration Automates the Procure-to-Pay Cycle for Manufacturing Companies
Large companies in the aerospace, automotive, high tech and industrial manufacturing sector purchase trillions of dollars of goods every year. …
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Benefits of using ASNs (Advanced Shipment Notices)
I continue to be surprised by at how many companies are still not requiring Advanced Shipment Notices (ASNs) from their…
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What Are The 4 Best B2B Models For Your Business?
When your company exchanges business documents electronically with your trading partners – your customers, suppliers, logistics providers and/or banks –…
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To Drop Ship or Not to Drop Ship? That is the Question (to ask Your Suppliers)
For retailers, meeting customer demand no longer relies on how much free space is in your back room. Online shopping…
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EDI Invoices are e-Invoices. Right..?
It probably goes without saying that electronic invoicing has been around for some time now, but for different reasons it…
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Top 5 Tips for Successfully Deploying ERP/B2B Integration Projects
Today’s ERP environments are at the centre of many enterprise IT infrastructures, from managing employee or customer related information through…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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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