HONG KONG - November 8, 2006 — GXS, a leading provider of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solutions, today announced the launch of GXS Managed Services and GXS Supply Chain Visibility Solutions across Hong Kong and China. By combining GXS Managed Services and GXS Supply Chain Visibility Solutions, companies achieve greater electronic integration with customers and suppliers, gain end-to-end visibility into business processes and have greater insight into supplier performance. GXS provides the people, processes and technology, including day-to-day management of the B2B infrastructure, operations and community ramping support, to bring greater integration and automation to Chinese global trading partner networks.

GXS has greater than 35 years' experience in managing full-service B2B e-commerce and hub/supplier integration programmes for companies in a variety of industries, including retail, consumer packaged goods, automotive, financial services and high-technology manufacturing, where business success often is driven by the effective deployment of e-commerce transactions. GXS Managed Services offers the technical infrastructure to conduct a global B2B program, including transaction management, data translation, systems administration and supplier performance reporting capabilities. In addition, GXS Managed Services provides customers with the B2B expertise to deliver world-class B2B programme management, trading community management, and customer support.

As a component of GXS Managed Services, GXS Supply Chain Visibility services enable businesses to sense changes in supply and demand across extended value chains and gain real-time business insights. This enables customers to streamline operational activities, capture new market opportunities and mitigate potential supply chain disruptions before they become exposures.

"IT development in China has continued to evolve over the last few decades, from solutions aimed at driving internal efficiency to solutions beyond the firewall that streamline and automate external transactions and integration," said Raymond Teh, vice president of AsiaPacific at GXS. "With the globalisation trend on the rise, companies that are optimising and streamlining their global supply and demand chains now will enjoy a strategic advantage over those that delay. GXS Managed Services is a prime solution for Chinese companies that wish to enjoy this strategic advantage without making major internal investments to support it."

Based on the GXS Trading Grid platform, GXS Managed Services is a comprehensive B2B business process management service that enables companies to automate transactions with their trading communities while shielding them from rapidly changing standards, eliminating manual and duplicative efforts, and enabling a higher level of process integration and business intelligence. GXS Supply Chain Visibility Solutions, a component of GXS Managed Services, give companies access to timely demand and supply information from all tiers of suppliers and customers. With GXS Supply Chain Visibility Solutions, customers are able to reduce inventory and transportation costs through more accurate and timely demand information; increase customer satisfaction through more timely response to orders; and improve internal productivity by minimising manual interactions. By combining GXS Managed Services and GXS Visibility Solutions, companies can optimise their supply chains through GXS' comprehensive, one-stop B2B integration outsourcing solution, while offering end-to-end visibility into customers' global supply and demand chains.

"With a competitive global market necessitating a move towards low-cost global sourcing, manufacturing and retailing operations are seeking actionable visibility and control of their supply and demand chains," said Nick Marchetti, vice president of Trading Grid and integration solutions at GXS. "At the same time, they want to be shielded from the complexities of establishing, operating and maintaining global trading partner communities and technologies that are prerequisites to global B2B visibility. GXS Managed Services meets both of these objectives for both enterprise corporations as well as for small-and-medium-sized business suppliers."

For customers of GXS Managed Services, GXS performs all of the day-to-day management of the technical infrastructure, including systems health monitoring, data back-up, network management, systems administration, database management and application support. GXS professionals also manage all data-mapping and translation tasks, perform change management and issue resolution with trading partners and pro-actively troubleshoot and reprocess document errors. Hundreds of companies use GXS Managed Services around the world, including Actaris, Bank of Montreal, BB&T, Eight O'Clock Coffee, Exel Consolidated Services, Miller Brewing Company, National Instruments, Royal Bank of Canada, Super Cheap Auto and Thomson Consumer Electronics.

The GXS Trading Grid is GXS' unique global integration platform that enables and streamlines cross-enterprise business processes and is used by more than 40,000 trading partners every day to exchange goods and services. Companies using GXS Managed Services connect to the global trading community at large via the GXS Trading Grid which supports all popular standards, including EDI (ANSI and EDIFACT), Internet EDI (AS2), RosettaNet and XML.

About GXS

GXS is a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions that simplify and enhance business process integration, synchronisation and collaboration among trading partners. Organisations worldwide, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500, leverage the GXS Trading Grid to extend supply networks, optimise product launches, automate warehouse receiving, manage electronic payments and gain supply chain visibility. With an unmatched global presence, proven trading partner management and B2B outsourcing services, GXS' on-demand solutions maximise the benefits of integration for businesses.   

Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS' extensive global network serves customers throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa and Asia Pacific regions. GXS can be found on the Web at www.gxs.com.