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 [...]
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 [...]
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Many of today’s IT departments have been relatively slow to embrace cloud computing. Cloud computing is not just hype and it is not something that can be ignored especially with so many analysts getting behind how this technology can help companies become more efficient with how they manage IT infrastructures. Now you can’t tell me [...]
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» Toyota has suffered one of its toughest years in its history, the Japanese earthquake back in March severely affected Toyota’s global production capacity for many months and is only now starting to get back to some form of normality. Toyota was obviously not the only company to be impacted by the earthquake and they, like [...]
Read More» Yesterday, SAP announced they would be acquiring Crossgate to help improve the way in which companies connect to trading partners outside of the enterprise. Over the years, SAP has grown into one of the largest providers of enterprise solutions. Many GXS customers use SAP to manage production processes, HR/Payroll systems, transportation and warehouse environments. The B2B [...]
Read More» Earlier in the year I posted a blog entry discussing why manufacturing companies should consider using cloud based environments. One thing I didn’t do in that particular post was to discuss exactly what a cloud computing environment is made up of and what benefits companies can expect to receive by adopting such services. There are [...]
Read More» B2B Managed Services promises to reduce the complexity, cost, and risk in your B2B operations. But what, exactly, is it? And how does it do that? Consider this thought-provoking fact, for the third year in a row, GXS experienced strong customer growth in its B2B Managed Services offering (a 60 percent increase over last year). [...]
Read More» The manufacturing sector has been through a tough period but in the second half of 2010 production levels in many countries started to rise to the levels seen just before the most recent economic downturn. Investment in ICT and B2B infrastructures was one of the first casualties of the economic downturn but now that production [...]
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