Last week GXS attended and exhibited at the NACHA PAYMENTS 2012 conference in Baltimore MD. There were many interesting educational sessions to choose from across several tracks. One session caught my eye in the Corporate Payments Solution track titled “The ERP Integration Cloud is Here!” presented by Rene Schuurman, Director and Product Manager Connectivity, from Citi [...]
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I have posted many blogs over the last couple of years on the subject of ERP B2B integration and how SAP projects for example can benefit from being integrated seamlessly to a B2B platform. I thought it would be worth exploring this subject further by expanding on the following statement, ERP systems are incomplete without [...]
Read More» Today’s ERP environments are at the centre of many enterprise IT infrastructures, from managing employee or customer related information through to delivering information required to run complex production systems. Many people often regard an ERP system as being internally focused, however without reliable connections to outside trading partners, for example banks, suppliers or logistics partners, [...]
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 [...]
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SAP announced this morning that it plans to fully acquire Crossgate. This is good news for the B2B integration sector as it acknowledges I trend that I have been discussing on the EDInomics blog for several years now. B2B integration is becoming increasingly strategic to large corporations. As more and more specialization and outsourcing occur [...]
Read More» The automotive industry has undergone immense change and restructuring over the past 24 months. The number one priority across the industry has been to reduce costs and we have seen a number of strategies implemented to try and achieve this, from reducing inventory levels, consolidating business and production systems through to exploring manufacturing and sourcing [...]
Read More» I caught up with Miguel on his first day at GXS, shortly after he’d found the coffee machine but before his Paris-inflicted jet-lag had worn off. At GXS, Miguel is taking on the roles of CTO and SVP Product Development, and makes his way to Washington DC via Paris (SAP/Business Objects) after stops at S1, [...]
Read More» Over the past few weeks I have been working on content for two new microsites which allows companies to find out more information concerning the benefits of using B2B outsourcing to manage the integration of SAP and B2B environments. Now I have discussed in a previous blog entry how B2B outsourcing and in particular GXS [...]
Read More» In an earlier blog entry I discussed the likely B2B trends in the Manufacturing industry in 2011 and in this particular blog entry I will expand on some of my thoughts relating to Tablet devices and how they are likely to impact the High Tech supply chain this year. 2011 will be the year of [...]
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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