- 1. Have You Connected the Dots Yet?
- (Management)
- Let’s have some fun with math. What EDI translator does your company use? For that matter, what ERP, 3PL, or other service is on your short list? Next, how many trading partners do you have? And finally, ...
- 2. OpenText Plans
- (News)
- OpenText, a well-known software company in the ecommerce and B2B integration space, continues to evolve. Bob Ferrarri attended their recent conference and came away with a wealth of information about where ...
- 3. Your EDI App
- (EDI)
- ... and the changes that need to be incorporated into translators to make processes flow properly. For most EDI practitioners, their roles are fairly well defined and fit well with established concepts. But ...
- 4. Integration in the B2B World
- (Integration)
- Let’s have some fun with math. What EDI translator does your company use? For that matter, what ERP, 3PL, or other service is on your short list? Next, how many trading partners do you have? And finally, ...
- 5. Your EDI Payments - Exposed
- (EDI)
- ... selling floor improves substantially. Integration through an EDI translator or through one of these 3rd Party EDI providers is the best for all parties to share in the costs of EDI exchanges as you may ...
- 6. Outsourcing EDI Is The Way To Go, Says Expert
- (Management)
- ... supply chain known as EDI, outsourcing those efforts is the most economical way of doing business, says Davis. “Computers can’t read EDI. They require a translator or an intermediary piece of software ...
- 7. EDI Modifications and Updates
- (EDI)
- ... to be out of compliance. The IT department’s biggest tasks after installing EDI, therefore, are to properly install and maintain EDI translator programs that fits the customers’ setups. It must also ...
- 8. What's Visibility Mean to You
- (Blogs)
- ... beginning to end. For example, for an outbound document we’d want to see it tracked from the ERP module, through our interface, into our translator, in its interchange on the way to the VAN, at the VAN, ...
- 9. Bigger is Not Always Better – Exploring EDI Solutions
- (EDI)
- ... decision for the short and long term. EDI solutions today include the traditional translator/software ownership, sourcing to a third party to translate or using a web based application. This just conveys ...
- 10. BOTS - An Open Source EDI Tool
- (EDI)
- ... I am truly impressed. I have worked with nearly all the “Big Five” EDI translators (IBM Data Interchange, Gentran (many flavors), GXS, TrustedLink Enterprise (when it was Harbinger) and Mercator) and ...
- 11. A Kill Switch for X12
- (EDI)
- ... that the costs are relatively minor. But most commercial translator vendors, or those larger entities that create and maintain their own applications, purchase the table data for as much as $19,000. Those ...
- 12. Focus on Functionality
- (Technology)
- ... storage won’t eliminate the need to address changes in volume, but it makes it much easier and more cost effective to do so. Or maybe you’ve outgrown your on-premises EDI translator. Rather than putting ...
- 13. Is the Battle Over?
- (Blogs)
- ... dominant partner. Software vendors peddle integration tools that are truly any-to-any, meaning translator limitations based on document format are things of the past. A major technology trend that may ...
- 14. Automate to Reduce Your Supply Chain Costs
- (Blogs)
- ... up resources? An obvious approach for this problem is to identify the error types and use the capabilities of your technical staff and translator (if you do on-premises EDI) or your technology partner ...
- 15. Think About Making a Change
- (News)
- Navdeep Sidhu has an idea about another resolution you ought to consider for your 2013 list.Could it finally be the year you'll do something about those old systems running your B2B transactions? Read ...
- 16. EDI’s Arch-Nemeses
- (EDI)
- ... process, it is likely that they will also need to install custom code in their translator, maps, ERP, or all of the above. Since telling the new customer that they are violating EDI standards may be a ...
- 17. B2B Platform Options
- (News)
- There's a nice discussion on the GXS blog site by Matthew Walker about the various cloud and on-premises options available for deployment of B2B platforms. It appears it doesn't have to be one or the other. ...
- 18. Build, Buy, or Wait? (Part 2)
- (Technology)
- ... it should be part of the base translator package and ought to be included in a future release. What’s your next step? Well, this is actually a tricky part of your entire decision process since you ...
- 19. Build, Buy, or Wait? (Part 1)
- (Technology)
- You spent big bucks a few years ago on a translator, faithfully paid yearly maintenance fees, and applied upgrades. There's still something you need the software to do that it can’t. What’s there to ...
- 20. Upgrade Surprises
- (Management)
- ... after a translator upgrade a few years ago. It’s not that there weren’t some cool new features and improved processing speed. It was just that it didn’t do some things we thought it should do, some things ...
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