Community Link offers best-in-class trading partner enablement, technical support and change management. As you approach 100% trading partner participation supply chain business processes become fully automated.  As a result, you will experience improved productivity in various functional areas such as:

• Procurement – Less time spent manually tracking the status of purchase orders with suppliers
• Receiving – No need to check paper packing lists enabling faster acceptance of inbound shipments 
• Account Payables – No need to manually key-in invoices enabling accelerated processing of invoices
  
  

Product Overview

Community Link enables you to quickly and successfully launch nearly any e-commerce program using GXS's unbeatable combination of proven tools and experience ramping and managing global trading communities. Community Link can help accelerate onboarding of trading partners for various programs including EDI, data synchronization, AS2, global supply chain visibility and VAN migrations.

Methodology

GXS follows a five phased process for community onboarding:

• Rollout Strategy & Planning - GXS Community Link implementation specialists work with you to understand your business’ requirements, define goals and objectives, agree on timelines and develop project plans.

• Inform and Educate - GXS develops and distributes a series of communications on your behalf which include customized educational materials to speed supplier adoption and free webinars to address trading partner questions and concerns.

• Organize - The actual rollout of your e-commerce program begins when GXS provides your trading community with your specific program requirements and walks each trading partner through the on-boarding process in an easy-to-understand, step-by-step process.

• Enable & Test - Dedicated implementation specialists continue to reach out to your trading community and provide you with weekly reporting and performance scorecards—so you know which suppliers are participating in the program and how many have been implemented.

• Change & Growth - Once your community is on-boarded, , GXS provides ongoing, 24x7 local language support to trading partners. During this phase, suppliers that are new to your company can be on-boarded to your program as well.