Last week I spoke with Joel Leetzow, a Practice Partner of Agile Network,  a company on the forefront of extending the reach of EDI into the realm of logistics and supply chain visibility. Visibility is one of the hot topics on the agendas of many VANs. If you aren't already familiar with the concept, it provides much more highly detailed information about the status and contents of orders as they progress through the order /shipping / delivery / receipt process. Typical EDI transactions are manually generated and only provide limited details that include the order, shipping notification and invoicing. What's missing is the conjoining of order data with carrier tracking and shipment data (in transit status). Read more...

This week I spoke with Tycho Howle, Chairman and CEO of nuBridges, a provider of EDI services based in Atlanta, Ga. Howle was behind industry leading Harbinger, an Internet-bubble era company that went public in 1995, and eventually had 40,000 customers and 1,000 employees

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Here's an interview with SPS Commerce  CEO and President Archie Black. Read more...