Having just spent a few days in Germany at the EDIFICE High Technology conference, I’ve concluded strange things are happening in the world of supply chain management. Indeed so profound are these changes that it’s turning established thought and practice upside down. Reliable For the last twenty or more years supply chain has been based [...]
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Earlier today I presented the keynote presentation at the 116th EDIFICE conference in Frankfurt, Germany. The EDIFICE association is an industry body that looks after the B2B related interests of companies operating across the high tech industry. This presentation was very timely as I have recently returned from a business trip to the East Coast [...]
Read More» It’s been tough, but I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking recently. And I’ve been thinking about risk in the supply chain. My mind has been focussed on this partly because it’s become increasingly important but also because we are giving presentations this week at the EDIFICE event on “Risk and Resilience” in the [...]
Read More» If you’ve been following you’ll recall I got a little distracted by a webinar featuring Marks and Spencer, how they engaged with their supplier community and automatically processed millions of invoices. As I pointed out, (before I got distracted), it surprised me to discover that there are over 500 companies across the globe who use [...]
Read More» For those of you to whom this delightful English slang word is unfamiliar it describes what happens when someone out bids you for a house, or indeed anything else. I’ve just been “Gazumped” in the B2B benefit stakes by a gentleman called Michael Brady. I was about to share with you a number of reasons [...]
Read More» In January 2012, GXS’ VP of Global Marketing, Steve Keifer, had a meeting with a UK Government Minister at the Houses of Parliament in London. It was a very productive meeting where GXS’ Head of eInvoicing Nigel Taylor provided an update on why companies should think about moving away from paper based invoicing to eInvoicing. [...]
Read More» As I am currently on a business trip in India I thought it would be a good time to provide an update on what is currently going on in the automotive industry in the country at the moment. I was fortunate enough to experience what it is like to travel on India’s roads when I [...]
Read More» In my previous blog entry I described how GXS had nominated Santa Claus to win a B2B Heroes in the Cloud Award for 2011. I then went on to discuss how Santa had implemented his cloud based B2B environment over the last three years. You can find out more information about how Santa’s B2B platform [...]
Read More» GXS recently announced the winners of its 2011 B2B Heroes in the Cloud Awards. These awards were presented to 20 individuals who had made a significant impact on how B2B was used within their company. Nearing the end of 2011, GXS felt that there was one other individual who should be recognised for his contributions to [...]
Read More» Over the past twelve months I have posted a number of blog entries relating to cloud based B2B integration and I will summarise these posts in a followup blog. In the meantime I thought it might be useful to try and highlight some of the more general things that need to be taken into consideration [...]
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