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GXS First Annual Customer Awards Program Winners Announced
GXS is pleased to announce the winners from our first annual Customer Awards Program. The program recognizes those companies that are making innovative use of GXS’ business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solutions.
Serving the needs of both large enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the GXS Customer Awards Program recognizes the B2B accomplishments for companies of all sizes across multiple categories.
Nominees for the 2006 GXS Customer Awards were evaluated on a range of criteria by a panel of judges that included Ken Vollmer, senior analyst at Forrester Research, Clive Longbottom, senior director of research at QuoCirca and Rowland Archer, senior vice president of engineering and chief technology officer at GXS.
The 2006 Enterprise Customer Award Winners are:
- Nygard International
Category: Best Use of the GXS Trading Grid to Enhance Supply Chain Efficiency
Nygard International, a leading manufacturer of women’s fashion apparel, selected the GXS Trading Grid as a key component of its Web-based Retail Fashion Expert (RFX) order system. Employees at Nygard that put things down on paper risk a fine of a dollar per page. According to the Nygard Web site, handling paper is expensive and time consuming, especially when the use of electronic commerce is so much more transparent and immediate. As a result of its relationship with GXS and its deployment of e-commerce technology, Nygard has been able to reduce order processing lead times by eight days, reduce buyers’ workload by 75 percent and increase sales by more than 42 percent.
- Miller Brewing Company
Category: Best Efforts to Educate, Promote and Expand the Use of B2B e-Commerce
GXS is recognizing Miller Brewing, the second largest brewery in the United States, for its efforts to enable a network of 550 distributors to conduct business electronically with retailers. The distributors now are able to create advanced ship notices, UCC-128 bar code labels and invoices for use in expediting interactions with retailers including Wal-Mart, Food Lion, Duane Reade, Target, Wakefern and 7-11. As a result, Miller has seen a drop in average truckload delivery times from three hours to just 20 minutes.
InFocus Corporation
Category: Best Use of B2B Outsourcing to Accelerate Competitive Differentiation
InFocus, the industry pioneer and worldwide leader in the projection market, relies on GXS Managed Services as a strategic partner in supporting its B2B e-commerce needs. InFocus has daily interactions with hundreds of global suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and customers, and has found that relying on GXS Managed Services has proven to be more cost-effective than a software-based approach.
- Penske Logistics
Category: Best use of the GXS Trading Grid to Reduce IT Complexity in B2B e-Commerce
Penske Logistics, a leading operator of transportation, distribution, inventory and delivery systems, uses GXS’ Gateway solution to consolidate multiple communications methods required by customers including HTTP protocol over the ANX, Secure MIME, SOAP and XML. This consolidation reduced technical complexity and improved results for its customers.
- STMicroelectronics
Best Use of the GXS Trading Grid to Reduce Complexity in B2B e-Commerce in France
STMicroelectronics (ST) is a global independent semiconductor company based in France. ST leverages the GXS Trading Grid to connect to a wide range of trading partners worldwide, including a rapidly expanding trading network in the Asia Pacific region. Through use of the Trading Grid, 90 percent of ST’s trading partners are electronically enabled, allowing the company to focus on core competencies and customers, rather than on the maintenance and integrity of its trading network.
- Shenker AG
Best Use of the GXS Trading Grid to Enhance Supply Chain Efficiencies in Germany
Schenker AG, one of the world’s leading providers of integrated logistics services, received this award in recognition of the Schenker Worldwide Online Real Time Data Network (SWORD). Schenker AG, a long-time customer of GXS, has operated SWORD for more than 10 years and has worked closely with GXS to maintain and evolve SWORD which simplifies B2B e-commerce for its extensive customer base.
- Iceland Foods
Category: Best Use of the GXS Trading Grid to Enhance Supply Chain Efficiencies in the UK
Iceland Foods, a European food retailer, uses multiple GXS services to streamline supply chain operations and connect to broad array of trading partners of varying sizes and technological capabilities. By utilizing several GXS services including Global Messaging and hosted translation services, Iceland Foods can obtain critical business information from its trading partners without inconveniencing them or requiring additional investments in IT. As a result, Iceland Foods has achieved a stellar 98 percent adoption rate for the use of electronic documents within its trading partner community.
- Azertia
Best Contribution to Accelerating On-Demand Supply Chain Management
Azertia provides innovative, high-value IT solutions to multinational businesses in a variety of sectors including finance, public administration, utilities, telecommunications and industry. To serve the enterprise content management, business process outsourcing, digital strategy, security and data synchronization needs of its clients, the company developed a collaborative integration platform based on the GXS Trading Grid. This unique integration platform is tailored for customers and includes customized services and solutions based on each company’s unique requirements.
The 2006 SMB Customer Award Winners are:
- Herman Kay
Category: Best Use of the GXS Trading Grid to Reduce IT Complexity in B2B e-Commerce
Herman Kay is a distributor of outerwear and shoes for women, men and children. Through its use of the GXS Trading Grid, Herman Kay has significantly reduced the complexity of its B2B operations while simultaneously providing expanded capabilities to its trading partner community. It also received better visibility into its inbound and outbound transaction activity by using a single, consolidated service provider. In addition, through the use of the GXS Global Product Catalog, an electronic product catalogue for retailers and suppliers, Herman Kay has increased its trading partner reach and reduced transaction costs.
- Monarch Towel
Category: Best Use of the GXS Trading Grid to Enhance Supply Chain Efficiency
Monarch Towel is a distributor of high quality robes, towels and slippers, manufactured in Brazil and designed primarily for hotel use. Monarch came to GXS in response to a retailer mandate that required it to establish an electronic document exchange program in a very short period of time. Upon selecting the GXS Trading Grid to meet its imminent customer needs, Monarch was able to begin conducting B2B e-commerce with global trading partners in less than one day.
- Supply Direct
Category: Best Use of the GXS Trading Grid to Enhance Supply Chain Efficiency in the UK
Supply Direct provides complete catering management services to schools, hospitals, care homes and other such institutions. To electronically check the prices charged by its suppliers, Supply Direct implemented Application Integrator™. Now the company quickly realizes price and other discrepancies that may otherwise have remained unnoticed. Supply Direct has also been working with GXS to enable 100% electronic trading with all of its trading partners. Supply Direct is on track to reduce the amount of manual processes from 70 percent to just 30 percent by the end of 2006 and expects to be trading 100 percent electronically by spring 2007.
GXS is proud to recognize the outstanding B2B achievements of our customers. We created this program to recognize those companies that went above and beyond the traditional B2B e-commerce strategies and executed a truly innovative approach to supply chain management
If you’re a GXS customer using our products and services in innovative way, we encourage you to apply for the 2007 Customer Awards program. Please click here to apply online.
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