Case Studies

Automotive

 Chrysler
Working with GXS, Chrysler Group, LLC implemented an electronic data interchange (EDI) system to replace the paper-based communications once used to communicate with their smaller suppliers. Chrysler, an automotive giant, is now saving millions of dollars each year by streamlining their processes through GXS solutions.

 Honda
Honda Foundry, a division of Honda and one of the leaders in the Japanese auto parts sector, wanted to enhance the efficiency of their business transactions. With Application Integrator, GXS now enables the company to transfer business documents electronically between their back-office systems and between the company and their customers.

 Mitsubishi
Mitsubishi Motors, a leading automotive company, looked to GXS to provide global support to improve the efficiency of the company’s B2B e-commerce operations. The GXS Managed Services environment allows Mitsubishi and their global trading partners to share information seamlessly.

Consumer Products

 Anchor Blue
Anchor Blue Retail Group, a leader in the youth-oriented fashion market, needed to get product on store shelves faster and at less cost. To do this, it needed to get more in tune with vendors. Through BizManager™ from Inovis, a GXS company, Anchor Blue was able to get 100 percent of their trading partners communicating electronically making for a first-rate distribution process.

 Coca-Cola Amatil
Producing over 1,450 million litres of beverage products a year, Coca-Cola Amatil supplies around 114,000 customers from large supermarket chains to small corner stores. In order to provide better service, Coca-Cola Amatil turned to GXS for a fully outsourced e-commerce solution.

 Dole
As the world’s largest producer and marketer of high quality fresh fruits, vegetables and fresh-cut flowers, Dole needed a system that would connect global operations as well as support internal systems. Dole turned to Inovis, a GXS company, to handle its connectivity needs, improve warehouse efficiency and send automatic alerts through the robust data exchange solution BizManager™ BizLink™

 Kodak
Eastman Kodak Company, a global leader in imaging technology, wanted to streamline and connect a variety of business functions, including accounting, production and management, plant maintenance, sales and distribution, in addition to integrating their e-business systems with SAP products. GXS’s Enterprise Gateway provides Kodak with a single system for transactions and business processes.

 Liz Claiborne
Liz Claiborne Inc. a well-known designer and retailer of fashion apparel and accessories, has been a long-time customer of GXS. Over the years, they have implemented a number of GXS products to enhance operations and streamline their supply chain. Liz Claiborne has developed their e-business infrastructure from basic supplier transactions to what is now the most extensive application of B2B integration and EDI in the apparel industry, all with help from GXS.

 Herman Kay
Herman Kay Company Inc., a supplier of men’s and women’s outerwear, needed to enhance their electronic communications, streamline operations and improve the exchange of product information. By using GXS Trading Grid® Messaging Service and Global Product Catalogue, Herman Kay was able to lower transaction costs, speed communications and increase the number of trading partners with access to their style information.

 Tandy Brands Accessories
Tandy Brands Accessories, Inc. makes and markets fashion accessories for men, women and children. Tandy Brands had been successfully using the TrustedLink® iSeries solution for more than five years to trade EDI with over 80 retailers. But when Wal-Mart mandated that it use the Internet and AS2 standard to do business, it quickly needed new technology. The BizManager™ BizLink™ was the perfect choice to integrate with the current system and satisfy Wal-Mart’s requirements.

 The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, the world’s largest marketer of branded consumer lawn and garden products, needed a way to comply with new data requirements coming from their major retail customers. They chose GXS Product Information Management (PIM) Supplier Version, enabling them to import product information to create a centralized item master file, validate against industry standards and trading partner requirements, and publish via a GDSN-certified data pool.

Financial Services

 Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
RBC has grown to become the premier bank and largest financial institution in Canada. They needed real-time visibility of their transactions to free up work time and reduce costs. GXS Managed Services provides a secure, seamless and expertly-run e-commerce environment.

 Shinhan Bank
Shinhan Financial Group Co. Ltd. is Korea’s first financial holding company that delivers comprehensive financial solutions through a powerful One-Portal network. GXS Managed Services enables Shinhan Bank to introduce new services, such as global cash management and supply chain finance, to their customers.

High-Tech & Manufacturing

 BSteel
Bsteel is the IT business unit of Shanghai-based Baosteel Group, the largest iron and steel producer in China. They deploy and manage Baosteel’s global B2B e-commerce strategies. Using GXS Enterprise Gateway and Trading Grid Messaging Service solutions Bsteel provides a unified platform for integrating Baosteel’s internal business units, customers and suppliers around the world to support data gathering, translation and integration into their forecast to payment supply chain execution.

 Deluxe Media Services
Deluxe Media Services supplies big names in entertainment such as Fox, Universal and Warner Brothers, with solutions for the manufacturing and distribution of packaged media. Its use of multiple EDI providers and older VAN technology made supply chain communication time-consuming and difficult to manage. Deluxe consolidated all of its EDI traffic to the state of-the-art Inovisworks™ from Inovis, a GXS company. This enabled Deluxe to dramatically improve supply chain productivity and reduce costs across their European trading community.

 Exelon Corporation
Exelon Corporation is a major electricity generator and operates the largest fleet of nuclear plants in the United States. Partnering with Exelon, Inovis, a GXS company, developed a Web Portal solution that allows Exelon’s suppliers to send invoice data and supporting documents electronically. Paper and manual processing of supply chain transactions are drastically reduced or eliminated and data quality is significantly improved.

 InFocus
InFocus Corporation is a leading provider of digital projection technology and services. They selected GXS Managed Services to provide a comprehensive outsourced e-commerce solution—with a single touch point between InFocus’s customers and suppliers.

 Milwaukee Electric Tool
Milwaukee Electric Tool took an outsourced and expensive EDI solution in house with the award winning TrustedLink® transformation software solution from Inovis, a GXS company. The result was an easy to use system that significantly increased volume transactions while cutting out consultant and network service costs.

 Mission Rubber
Mission Rubber Company, a division of MCP Industries, Inc., needed a cost-effective EDI and document exchange functionality to meet growing demand from customers — the manufacturers’ representatives and distributors it sells through. Mission turned to the experience of Inovis, a GXS company, for a solution that would integrate well with its existing ERP system and found it with the TrustedLink® and Inovisworks™ applications.

 ON Semiconductor
Multiple customers using multiple systems across multiple industries were turning ON Semiconductor off. As a preferred supplier of power solutions, it needed a complete solution to work with different environments, including EDI and Rosetta Net. ON Semiconductors employed Inovis Managed Services to develop a state-of-the art network to seamlessly exchange data between the company and all of their business partners’ various technologies.

 Rohm and Haas
Rohm and Haas Company is a specialty materials company in the US owned by DOW, whose reported revenues are $57.5B. They wanted to eliminate the unnecessarily high operational costs and supplier management challenges within manual invoice processing. Their GXS solution provides their trading partners with a web-based, self-service portal for creating and managing electronic invoices.

 Vermont Information Processing, Inc.
Vermont Information Processing, Inc. (VIP) provides business enhancing software applications to approximately 400 beverage distributors. These applications manage distributor inventory, orders, sales reports and financials. To interact electronically with customers, VIP implemented a full suite of integrated solutions from Inovis, a GXS company. The solutions, including TrustedLink® and BizManager™ 400, enabled VIP to standardize its supply chain communications offerings and help its beverage distributors improve efficiencies and reduce costs.

Retail

 B2B Social Networks: Do you really know your trading partners?
Maintaining current contact information and details of suppliers can be a challenge. This case study examines how a $4 billion US discount retailer used the Inovis Social Network for trading partners to update and access contact information and company profiles. When there is an issue, the retailer can easily identify the right person who can help resolve the issue before it causes further delays in the supply chain. The Invois Social Network keeps the retailer on the pulse of their suppliers and supply chain communications.

 Best Buy
Best Buy Co., Inc. is North America’s leading specialty retailer of consumer electronics, personal computers, entertainment software and appliances. They chose GXS Product Data Quality to increase customer satisfaction and reduce data errors along their supply chain.

  Big Lots
Big Lots’ business is dependent on flexible inventory and efficient access to vendor overruns and closeouts. They turned to Partner Performance Management from Inovis, a GXS company to manage all aspects of the vendor relationship including transaction flow, shipping notices and compliance. The solution resulted in improved flow and communication throughout the supply chain and products getting into customer hands faster.

 DSGi
DSG international plc (DSGi), one of Europe’s leading electronic retailers, needed to streamline communications with hundreds of suppliers in order to keep up with customer demand. They turned to GXS to help improve communications, speed processes and increase efficiency in their dealings with suppliers.

 JCPenney
JCPenney is one of America’s largest department store and catalog retailers. The company turned to GXS to enable shipment packing using scanning technology, label shipments with barcodes, and send Advance Ship Notices (ASNs) through GXS’s EDI Express, ASN Plus and Global Product Catalogue.

 WHSmith
WHSmith is one of the UK’s largest retailers who has been a long-term user of a number of EDI translation and transmission solutions from GXS to deliver their e-business strategy. More recently, WHSmith also decided to consolidate their e-commerce activities using GXS Managed Services.

Trade & Transportation

 FedEx
FedEx Corp., a premier global transportation provider, wanted to provide a single gateway to support all of their e-commerce transactions. They implemented a customized GXS solution to enable data exchange between computers of any platform at any time using any communication protocol.

 Royal Mail
Royal Mail, Parcelforce Worldwide and the Post Office branches use GXS Enterprise Gateway to share product catalogs, customer details, invoices and parcel tracking data between its own systems and external trading partners. EDI and XML transactions are exchanged with over 1000 trading partners and the Royal Mail’s SAP and Siebel systems.

 Schenker
Schenker A/S is one of the world’s leading providers of integrated logistics services. The company has worked with GXS for over a decade, continually developing and improving their service to customers and trading partners. To address their new challenges, GXS can help them deliver new capabilities to market within short turnaround periods, which is of crucial importance to Schenker in terms of new business development.

 Yantian International Container Terminals
In the port facilities industry, a communications error can cause a shipment to travel around the globe to the wrong destination. Yantian International Container Terminals (YICT) needed a comprehensive transaction exchange platform for its China-based port facilities. Inovis, a GXS company, helped YICT meet its shipping communication needs with BizManager™ BizLink™. The solution is a simple “point-and-click” system used across a complex community of trading partners.