Customer Success Stories
 
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Retail

 Dixons Group plc
One of Europe’s leading consumer electronic retailers, Dixons sought a means to improve communications, speed processes and increase efficiency in its dealings with suppliers.
 
 J.C. Penney Company, Inc.
One of the U.S’s largest department store, drugstore and catalog retailers, J.C. Penney turned to GXS to enable the retailer to track shipments using scanning technology, label shipments with barcodes and send Advance Ship Notices (ASNs).
 
 Ocado

Ocado a décidé d’externaliser l’ensemble de ses besoins de commerce électronique à GXS Managed Services, une suite complète de services qui permet à Ocado de s’adapter rapidement et d’acquérir efficacement un avantage concurrentiel important sur le marché du commerce électronique.


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Consumer Products

 Beef and Blooms
As supplier to one of the largest hardlines companies in the world, this Hawaiian nursery needed to implement a robust and affordable data synchronization solution.
 
 Eastman Kodak Company
This global leader in photography, imaging and scanning was searching for a solution that could provide a complete B2B integration solution combining services with fully SAP-certified products.
 
 Gaffney of Tiptree
When leading retailers asked this family-owned manufacturer of party novelties to use EDI, they saw it as a way to streamline business operations as well.
 
 King Innovation
This Missouri manufacturer develops innovative products for the irrigation and electrical industry. As a supplier to several of the largest hardlines companies in the world, King Innovation needed to synchronize their product data in a short timeframe.
 
 Liz Claiborne
 Liz Claiborne apparel and accessories are available at more than 22,000 different retail locations throughout the world. Whether supplier or customer, large or small, local or international, Liz Claiborne must communicate seamlessly with all its trading partners and maintain agility to continuously add new partners to its supply chain.
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Food & Beverage

 Bernard Matthews
Because this privately owned food processing business is both global and growing rapidly, it needed to improve efficiency through EDI communications with its customers.
 
 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.
 
 J.O.Sims
As a fresh produce importer, grower and food ingredient supplier, J.O. Sims serves major retailers, fresh produce markets and food manufacturers. The U.K. company needed a system that would automatically handle orders, but that would be easy to learn and use.
 
 Organic Farm Foods

With a policy of on-going investment in IT, and constant focus on ways to cut costs and improve efficiency across the supply chain, U.K. based Organic Farm Foods is a pioneer in technology initiatives within the fresh produce industry.


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Automotive

 DaimlerChrysler
Even though the automaker’s large suppliers were using EDI, it would take weeks to process some orders because small suppliers still relied on paper. Chrysler needed an inexpensive EDI solution for small, low-volume suppliers.
 
 EGR
EGR, a global manufacturer and supplier of automotive parts needed a way to improve the efficiency within its supply chain, especially the timing of production and deliveries.
 
 Honda
Intensifying pressure from overseas was pressuring Honda Foundry, a division of the Japanese automotive giant, to enhance the efficiency of its business transactions by eliminating manual processes and increasing its capacity to handle business documents.
 
 Mitsubishi
Mitsubishi Motors avait besoin d'un partenaire de commerce électronique interentreprises B2B qui puisse fournir un support global pour améliorer l'efficacité des opérations B2B de l'entreprise.
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High Tech & Manufacturing

 CS Thompson
Thomson a externalisé à GXS ses moyens de gestion des Echanges de Données Informatisées (EDI) et son site extranet avec l'objectif de permettre au géant de l'électronique d'épargner 5 millions de dollars au cours des quatre prochaines années.
 
 Duradiamond
A specialty tools and equipment manufacturer responded to a customer’s request for EDI—and found even more advantages in its own operations.
 
 EdgeCraft
This private manufacturer of kitchen and commercial products easily serves thousands of retail partners in 50 countries, each with their own requirements for e-commerce.
 
 G H Meiser & Co - Accu-Gage
Like other smaller companies, this manufacturer of precision gauges found its customer increasingly interested in receiving documents via EDI—yet each customer had unique requirements.
 
 Infineon
One of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers wanted to give their distributors the ability to provide end-customers with the latest inventory and shipping information.
 
 InFocus
InFocus communicates daily with hundreds of suppliers and customers around the world. This network includes contract manufacturers in low-cost markets; technology distributors such as Ingram Micro, TechData and CDW; as well as leading retailers such as Best Buy, Circuit City, Costco, Office Depot and Staples.
 
 Rohm & Haas
By automating end-to-end supplier invoicing process, specialty materials manufacturer's facilities around the globe can transact more easily with thousands of suppliers.
 
 Thomson Consumer Electronics
The America’s subsidiary of Thomson Multimedia is outsourcing its electronic data interchange (EDI) and an extranet site to GXS in an effort expected to save the electronics giant millions of dollars during the next four years.
 
Transportation

 FedEx
FedEx Corp, the premier global provider of transportation, e-commerce and supply chain management services, chose GXS to support more than 100 million electronic transactions and deliver nearly five million shipments every day.
 
 Royal Mail
Wholly owned by the UK Government, Royal Mail has annual sales in excess of 8 billion pounds and delivers some 82 million items to 27 million addresses each day. Integrated communications from GXS are key to its success.
 
 Schenker AG
Schenker AG est l´un des premiers prestataires mondiaux de services logistiques intégrés. Dans le cadre de sa collaboration de plus de dix ans avec GXS, Schenker AG a continuellement développé et amélioré son service aux clients et partenaires commerciaux avec les solutions GXS Trading Grid®, y compris GXS Trading Grid® Messaging Service et GXS B2B Gateway.
 
 TMF Operating
A provider of logistics management services and specialized transport and stock management services, TMF Operating had to develop faster and more efficient data transfer and synchronization capabilities to simplify its system with trading partners, while meeting the constantly changing needs of its burgeoning customer base.
 
 Transplace
An industry-leading logistics and transportation management company, Transplace works with 3,000 carriers around the world to offer customers almost unlimited transportation capacity. In a highly competitive marketplace, with millions of truckloads of freight to track and manage, Transplace needed a solution that would work right from the beginning.
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Life Sciences

 Becton Dickinson
Becton, Dickinson and Company is a global medical technology company providing a wide range of medical supplies, devices and lab equipment to healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, industry and the general public. BD turned to GXS for a solution to tightly integrate EDI with SAP and legacy applications.
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Public Sector & Utilities

 Cambodia - Ministry of Commerce
When this SE Asian nation started to experience problems with the textile quota levels negotiated with the US government, it turned to electronic communications from GXS to expedite trade.
 
 Bangladesh - Export Promotion
The government of this emerging south Asian nation needed to gain visibility and control over its exports of textiles into its largest market—the United States.
 
 PSE&G
The United States fifth largest electric utility, New Jersey-based PSE&G serves three-quarters of that state’s population. As deregulation opened markets to competition, it also required that utilities be able to exchange customer enrollment and billing transactions with alternative suppliers via EDI.
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Services

 Cardinal Health
Cardinal Health’s Medical Products and Services Group processes over 100,000 transactions per day with more than 3,000 global trading partners. Cardinal needed to provide one communication gateway through which it could connect all of its business partners and avoid creating a strain on the system.
 
 Royal Bank of Canada
The Automotive Finance Group at Royal Bank of Canada provides online access to automobile dealers, leasing and daily rental companies. A GXS solution helps RBC offer the manufacturer, the lender and the dealer real-time visibility into the status of the transaction.
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Small Business Customers

 Beef and Blooms
As supplier to one of the largest hardlines companies in the world, this Hawaiian nursery needed to implement a robust and affordable data synchronization solution.
 
 Duradiamond
A specialty tools and equipment manufacturer responded to a customer's request for EDI-and found even more advantages in its own operations.
 
 Edgecraft
This private manufacturer of kitchen and commercial products easily serves thousands of retail partners in 50 countries, each with their own requirements for e-commerce.
 
 Gaffney of Tiptree
When leading retailers asked this family-owned manufacturer of party novelties to use EDI, they saw it as a way to streamline business operations as well.
 
 G.H. Meiser
Like other smaller companies, this manufacturer of precision gauges found its customer increasingly interested in receiving documents via EDI-yet each customer had unique requirements.
 
 J.O. Sims
As a fresh produce importer, grower and food ingredient supplier, J.O. Sims serves major retailers, fresh produce markets and food manufacturers. The U.K. company needed a system that would automatically handle orders, but that would be easy to learn and use.
 
 King Innovation
This Missouri manufacturer develops innovative products for the irrigation and electrical industry. As a supplier to several of the largest hardlines companies in the world, King Innovation needed to synchronize their product data in a short timeframe.
 
 Organic Farm Foods
With a policy of on-going investment in IT, and constant focus on ways to cut costs and improve efficiency across the supply chain, U.K. based Organic Farm Foods is a pioneer in technology initiatives within the fresh produce industry.
 
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