- 21. What’s In YOUR Bill?
- (EDI)
- ... service providers have combined to reduce the overall costs of transferring order transactions between trading partners. But has transfer pricing bottomed out yet? Of course you can’t really know if ...
- 22. The Rise of the Supply Chain Grid
- (News)
- The development of the 'supply chain grid' seems to be the natural response to the pressures of omnichannel customer growth. The days of the linear supply chain for retailers is coming to a close due to ...
- 23. Take it EDI Easy
- (EDI)
- Getting started with EDI may not seem to be the easiest venture a business could undertake. But regardless of the level of difficulty, it’s a necessity for a growing number of trading partners who want ...
- 24. Outsourcing EDI Is The Way To Go, Says Expert
- (Management)
- ... communications, it is imperative for trading partners to speak the same shipping language or hire an outside resource to communicate for them. “In the traditional supply chain configuration, technology ...
- 25. Monitoring Supply Chain Activity with Dashboards
- (Integration)
- ... know that compliance isn’t a black-and-white issue. Even after a trading partnership begins and EDI documents are tested and validated, you may modify them as your business needs change. Keeping up with ...
- 26. The Value Add Makes the VAN
- (EDI)
- ... information and documents between a company and its trading partners to a more robust service that includes not only the network but also a variety of services aimed at facilitating more effective commerce ...
- 27. Integrate Your Systems Now While Transaction Volume is Lower
- (Integration)
- Any company involved in supplying products through the retail channel already has two things — communication with their trading partners and a way to manage their finances and inventory. These are typically ...
- 28. Managing EDI Changes
- (EDI)
- ... matters. Business specifics typically decide the definition of incoming and outgoing documents for each retailer. Trading partners monitor document design via published EDI implementation guidelines; ...
- 29. ERP and EDI integration make for better everything
- (Integration)
- ... ERP that can communicate with the company’s various trading partners. That’s where EDI comes in. The impact of integrating ERP with EDI According to Darwin Porter, Network Operations Manager with Cerasis, ...
- 30. RFID and Visibility
- (News)
- Visibility is top-of-mind for many supply chain executives. RFID, a technology that's been around for awhile but has yet to achieve universal approval, seems to be capable of enabling processes that can ...
- 31. Omnichannel Marketing, Visibility, and the Perfect Order
- (Supply)
- ... the retailer automatically when some aspect of the order goes awry. The middleman – the EDI service provider – plays the key role in this process. When trading partners exchange EDI documents, the transfer ...
- 32. Direct Procurement Automation Challenges
- (News)
- Automating your direct procurement process is a worthy goal, but supply chain managers often take steps with technology that cause more problems than they solve. Bolt-ons are not the answer, according ...
- 33. The Unnecessary Costs Of EDI Document Errors
- (EDI)
- ... to notify their trading partners of the change. In either case, the transaction requires manual intervention such as a phone call or a retransmission via email or fax. That interruption can lead to delays ...
- 34. VANs Are Well Positioned to Support Logistics
- (Logistics)
- ... to providing connectivity) is to monitor the health of the network and communications between trading partners. When issues arise that impact those communications, the dedicated resources of the VAN kick ...
- 35. Enjoy Big Gains By Involving Your Smaller Vendors In Your EDI Process
- (Retail)
- ... in EDI transactions, electronic updates are automatically transmitted between the trading partners to advise of the order’s status. Dashboards automatically announce when an order has not progressed to ...
- 36. No Risk EDI
- (EDI)
- ... But they can be telling in and of themselves as they include information about your trading partners, your relationships with them, and what products are most important to your company. As single documents ...
- 37. Responsibility For Suppliers
- (News)
- Some well-documented recent business disasters, such as the airbag recalls by the car makers, vividly illustrate the need for manufacturers to take more ownership of their supply chain processes. The risks ...
- 38. Low B2B Integration Adoption for CPG
- (News)
- In a recent research study by IDC that's surprising to me, we discover that a vast majority of consumer package goods (CPG) companies are low adopters of B2B integration technology.Although there's universal ...
- 39. Making it Easy to Improve
- (News)
- Every organization wants to improve. According to Arun Samuga of Elemica, you can look to the 'e' words for ideas on how to better your supply chain.I'm usually a little wary about gimmicks like this, ...
- 40. Survey: Meetings with Your Trading Partners: How can they be improved?
- (Management)
- In our increasingly automated and digitized world it’s common for business relationships to thrive for years without having face to face meetings between the retailer and their suppliers. But there are ...
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