- 21. Looking for Drop Ship Enlightenment? Start here.
- (Retail)
- ... shipping and order fulfillment, which can either be done in house, outsourced, or a combination of the two. Whatever the outcome, it’s important to note that the decision to begin drop shipments – and ...
- 22. Hosting a 'Burn the EDI Manuals' Party
- (EDI)
- ... generally look to outsource when the work isn’t a ‘core’ competency, when there’s a cost advantage, or to address a spike in workload that is temporary. As have many companies, my previous employer outsourced ...
- 23. Seven Keys to Managing Outsourced Mapping Services
- (Management)
- Finding process efficiency in business is no longer on the wish list, but a mandatory responsibility of management. Even with the great gains that we as an EDI department give to the organization, the ...
- 24. Effectively Managing an Outsourced Mapping Department
- (Management)
- ... reduced, and are all great, but managing new trading partners or changes to existing partner EDI specifications can be a bit tricky in practice. Oftentimes utilizing an outsourced mapping team means ...
- 25. Broaden Your Thinking
- (Retail)
- ... to support activities beyond X.12 EDI, or you could even have some or all of your processes outsourced. Many teams are in that scenario and they’re right in thinking they already have all they can handle. ...
- 26. SaaS vs Managed Services; The ARE Different
- (Technology)
- ... they are likely to talk about Outsourced Services. In my definition of Outsourcing we're talking about not needing the EDI software. Rather, those services are provided by a Service Provider. There are ...
- 27. Which Tool Belt Do I Need?
- (EDI)
- ... will need less technical expertise and more experience with business process. That being said, rarely are there absolutes in the real world and most EDI environments are a hybrid utilizing some outsourced ...
- 28. To Outsource or not Outsource... That is The Question
- (Management)
- ... make sense. · Another area of interest for an outsourced function is through Transportation Management Systems, and there are several reasons for this growing interest. One of the trends is that ...
- 29. What’s on Your Horizon?
- (Management)
- ... commerce/EDI processes. If you’re with a small manufacturer with a limited number of partners and transactions, or if you’ve outsourced your processes, you may be insulated from the sea changes we’ve seen ...
- 30. To Outsource, or Not…..
- (Management)
- ... role, but other parts of the company did. As in most large organizations, we outsourced a number of non-core processes and over time we became pretty inured to the concept. Mostly, outsourcing succeeded ...
- 31. Preparing for your new EDI Implementation
- (EDI)
- ... that have outsourced their EDI infrastructure to a provider, they are so use to that resource being there, that they become part of the company (staff) and then forget that they too need to assign resources ...
- 32. Supply Chain Automation Advocate or Foe
- (Supply)
- ... be done in-house. I’ve worked with companies that have the core business processes handled with in-house staff but have outsourced other pieces. For example, maybe PO’s, ASN’s and Invoices are direct through ...
- 33. Project Pitfalls
- (Management)
- ... to support, we outsourced testing for new partners to a third party, our business side folks handled any non-EDI issues with the partners, and our part was mainly just getting them set up in SAP and monitoring ...
- 34. Information-sharing Through Integration is Vital to Successful Relationships With 3PLs
- (Integration)
- ... have made the systems integration much easier. Whether logistics is outsourced or not, back-end integration that enables the seamless sharing of information across an organization, from its manufacturing ...
- 35. What is my Supply Chain
- (Supply)
- ... it looking something like this using an example of cans of chunky soup - Campbell's may have outsourced the production of process with another company branded for them so that supply chain looks lik ...
- 36. Cecil's Night Ou
- (Management)
- ... in attendance by newer, smaller companies providing online services. Some of them call their products SaaS, while others just call them outsourced services. As I spoke with several of you in the exhibits ...
- 37. Cecil's (out)Sourc
- (Management)
- ... using TIECommerce's software to connect with its trading partners, exchanging 18 different document types. The company expects the transition from its internally managed and hosted system to its outsourced ...
- 38. Cecil Strikes a Nerve
- (Management)
- ... Testing Experience "We too have had recent dealings with SPSCommerce. Last month we became certified with a customer we had been trading EDI with for more than five years. Now because SPS is their "outsourced" ...
- 39. Cecil's Changing Scener
- (Management)
- ... the conversation I overheard between a couple of Kroger EDI staff members when it was announced that some or all of their jobs were being outsourced to an India based company. This week I heard that "the ...
- 40. From the Top - GXS
- (EDI)
- ... that outsourced managed services increased customer satisfaction by an average of 52%, and delivered a 250% ROI over a one year term. Customers are moving toward SaaS alternatives. They are saying that ...
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