Business to Business EDI

In order for global business endeavors to be successful, companies require quick, reliable, and dependable information exchange. Whether you're sending a document or are waiting to receive one, a successful business transaction depends on steady communication channels and translators. GXS offers products and services designed specifically for business to business electronic data interchange (EDI) communications.

Facilitating partnerships using business to business (B2B) EDI is what we do. We've been doing it for more than 35 years. Why trust your important business relationships to anyone other than the company who transacts 75 percent of the Fortune 500 companies' business?

Successful B2B EDI Partnerships

B2B EDI is a service that allows your business to transfer data to and receive data from your trading partners. Buying, selling, contracting and forecasting are all done electronically, thus reducing the time it takes to complete these processes.

All companies in the value chain experience the advantages of the business to business EDI:

• Deliveries occur just in time
• Product supply and demand reflect one another
• Inventories are reduced
• Shipping patterns are optimized
• Partners receive their products when they need them

To ensure your B2B EDI strategy works, you need an enterprise that understands what it takes to be successful—one that works directly with suppliers and customers to create stronger supply chain management solutions and continues to work efficiently within this ever-changing global business climate.

Electronic Data Interchange: EDI Solutions

Choosing to partner with GXS for electronic data interchange services can benefit your company in many ways. First of all, GXS offers a variety of acceleration services that help speed the process of your outsourced EDI. You can access a broad spectrum of business to business EDI solutions from GXS that can help you move to an outsourced EDI system. These GXS services leverage the Internet to increase your business opportunities and integrate EDI transactions throughout your entire supply chain.

• Transaction Management Services
• EDI Services Information Exchange
• Gateways and Information Software
• Business Integration Services
• In-Network Translation
• Community Trading Services
• Community Enabling Service
• Customer Support

Each of these services are designed to enable GXS to offer you the most efficient B2B EDI system possible. By providing you with simplified and enhanced business process integration and collaboration, your partners will be happy and your business will flourish.

Business to Business EDI Solutions

To ensure our customers are provided with state-of-the-art technology, GXS has developed multiple software packages designed for EDI transactions. Each of these programs covers different portions of EDI and is not spread thinly over a variety of tasks. In this software group, most of the programs are considered "accelerators" and help with the transferring and translation of data as it comes in and leaves your system. There are programs, however, that are specific to the goals of EDI:

• Accounting Package Accelerator
• Desktop EDI™
• Edisoft® Merchant™
• Edisoft® Merchant Express™
• Intelligent Web Forms
• Network-Based Translation

Each of these EDI software programs is designed with specific goals in mind and works with the companies' needs to improve overall communication and B2B EDI. In particular, Desktop EDI™, Edisoft® Merchant™ and Edisoft® Merchant Express™ are EDI software programs that GXS developed to run the EDI plans of companies that want to improve communication over their entire supply chain.

Learn more about our outsourced B2B EDI solutions today.

Desktop EDI™: Business to Business EDI

• Do you want consistent and reliable communication with your trading partners?
• Do you want to launch your outsourced EDI program as quickly as possible?
• Do you want to expand your e-commerce activities to the betterment of your business?

If you answered "Yes" to any these questions, then your company is an excellent candidate for Desktop EDI™. This easy-to-use, full-featured, and affordable EDI solution is for the company wanting to expand their business and communications. While allowing you to create, send, print and manage EDI documents, this software also abides by common EDI standards. Contact us for more information about Desktop EDI™.

Edisoft® Merchant™ & Edisoft® Merchant Express™: Business to Business EDI

Edisoft® Merchant™ and Edisoft® Merchant Express™ are perfect for the businesses with a variety of EDI document levels. If your company is looking for an outsourced business-to-business EDI solution that easily integrates with any major ERP software and accounting systems, the Edisoft® Merchant™ or Edisoft® Merchant Express™ could be the right choice. These solutions provide a variety of business benefits, all important to a company that is currently receiving more data than their system can handle. These solutions provide:

• Elimination of redundant re-keying of data
• Reduction of errors, cycle time, and time to market
• Seamless integration into your current ERP or accounting system with no on-site programming
• No need to import and/or export data for the EDI system
• Reduction of EDI complexity
• Data accuracy improvement

Essentially, the Edisoft® Merchant™ and Edisoft® Merchant Express™ simplify the process, letting you spend more time on matters pertinent to your business. Whether you are looking for EDI consulting or a parter to handle your B2B EDI solutions and focus on your business requirements, look to GXS.

Contact us for more information on any of our business-to-business EDI products or keep reading about our outsourced e-commerce EDI solutions.