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Accounting Today
Software and Hardware: EDI acceleration
Author
September 18, 2006

GXS' Accounting Package Accelerators lets users of all sizes integrate e-commerce transactions with their back-office accounting software. Supporting 37 different accounting packages, APA removes the need to re-key data, making EDI and accounting processes faster and more accurate.

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AMI Semiconductor Improves Communications With Trading Partners
A conversation with Roland Smith, supply chain director at AMI Semiconductor, Pocatello, Idaho
Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies
Jean V. Murphy
September, 2006

AMI Semiconductor (AMIS) is a leader in the design and manufacture of application-specific, mixed-signal integrated circuits, which combine analog and digital circuits on the same circuit board. AMIS products are used in applications in a variety of industries, including automotive, medical, industrial, communications, computing, defense and consumer products. Last year the company generated $500m in revenue from global operations. In order to streamline and improve communications and collaboration with its customers and suppliers, the company recently implemented Trading Grid, a solution from GXS, Gaithersburg, Md.

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Meeting the Needs of Small and Midsized Suppliers
RFID Journal
By Steve Keifer
Aug. 7, 2006

The majority of RFID pilot programs in the retail supply chain have explored the benefits of the technology for large businesses. These pilot programs have tested merchandise manufactured by large apparel and consumer packaged goods (CPG) suppliers destined for the distribution centers and stores of large retailers. However, little analysis has been performed regarding the benefits of radio frequency identification technology for small and medium businesses (SMBs). Approximately 80 percent of manufacturers in the retail supply chain are SMBs, and RFID adoption is a critical factor to their long-term success. After all, both large and small suppliers have to face challenges associated with obsolescence, counterfeiting, shrinkage, new product introductions, promotions and out-of-stocks.

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Microsoft and GXS Form Strategic B2B Alliance to Speed and Simplify Global Business Collaboration
Supply Chain Manufacturing & Logistics
By David L. Andrews
May 11, 2006

Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, WA) and GXS (Gaithersburg, MD), a provider of Business-to-Business (B2B) e-commerce solutions, have signed a strategic alliance to market new solutions to get companies big and small to be able to connect and conduct global trade. The alliance focuses on technologies and platforms from the two companies that enable B2B integration initiatives, including Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006, SQL Server 2005, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and GXS’s Trading Grid, which is a global integration platform/electronic community that GXS says is used by more than 40,000 customers to exchange goods and services.




Nothing But the Truth
Supply & Demand Chain Executive
By Larry Rushing
May 2006

Organizations across the globe have begun to embark on a journey that, in some ways, has caught them by surprise. Interestingly, some may not even yet realize that they are already on this journey, but they will follow it based on their increasing needs to better manage information about products. Today product information management is about the strategic benefits of data alignment across many internal systems and data sources. It involves several departments and focuses on the repurposing of key item data across multiple channels to optimize external trading partner collaboration.

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Microsoft, GXS Ally on B2B Integration Initiative
Supply & Demand Chain Executive

May 10, 2006

B2B connectivity specialist GXS has formed an alliance with Microsoft to market solutions to speed and simplify integration between trading partners worldwide, with a focus on enabling integration initiatives across organizations' global supply chains.

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Microsoft and GXS Form Strategic Alliance to Speed, Simplify Global Business Collaboration
Chain Store Age
By Connie Gentry
May 9, 2006

Microsoft Corp. and B2B e-commerce solution GXS announced a strategic alliance to market innovative solutions to speed and simplify integration between trading partners worldwide. The alliance focuses on enabling B2B integration initiatives across organizations' global supply chains through a combination of software and services that includes Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006, SQL Server 2005, the 2007 Microsoft Office system and GXS Trading Grid.



Microsoft, GXS Announce Partnership
eWeek
By Renee Boucher Ferguson
May 8, 2006

After years of wrangling, business-to-business software companies are still working toward a key goal: to connect smaller suppliers with their global, often much larger, supply chain partners.

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Local Briefing
The Washington Post

May 8, 2006

GXS of Gaithersburg, which provides business-to-business e-commerce services, and Microsoft plan to announce today a new alliance to integrate their software for use in global supply chains. GXS will use Microsoft technology in its GXS Trading Grid, and Microsoft will recommend the e-commerce system for use with its BizTalk Server.

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Dairy Farm Automates Collaboration
Chain Store Age
By Ken Mark
May 1, 2006

In faraway Hong Kong, The Dairy Farm Co. Ltd., an established pan-Asian retailer, is taking the lead in deploying GDS (global data synchronization) to improve customer satisfaction. GDS will further ensure end-to-end supply chain data accuracy, enabling trading partners, including our organization, to streamline collaborative commerce and roll out new products faster to meet market demands, said John Shelton, the retailer's Hong Kong-based North Asia IT director.



Global View: Lowering the Cost of EDI
RIS News
By Carly Bohach
April 2006

With its EDI, Electronic Data Interchange, service contract up for renewal, Hudson's Bay (Hbc), Canada's largest department store retailer and oldest corporation, jumped at the chance to lower costs and improve communication with its 3,500 trading partners in North America. "The EDI market costs have been coming down, and we wanted to make sure we benefited from the cost decrease over the market," says Mark Warren, general manager, information services for Oracle ERP and HR systems.

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On-Demand Value of The Supply Chain
internetnews.com
By Michael Hickins
March 30, 2006

The use of software-as-a-service (SaaS) for supply chain management (SCM) is gaining traction, and early adopters are reaping the rewards of faster implementation times, quicker returns on investment and lower costs.

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Linking Partners and Suppliers
Managing Automation
By Hallie Forcinio
March 27, 2006

Today's global supply chains extend across multiple companies, systems, cultures, and time zones, making collaboration and communication among trading partners a formidable challenge. Ever-increasing compliance requirements also are driving manufacturers to find ways to collect information from and send data to a myriad of sources both within and outside the four walls.

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GXS, China Entercom Partner for B2B Hub
eWeek
By Renee Boucher Ferguson
March 13, 2006

Business-to-business integration provider GXS announced a partnership March 13 with China Enterprise Communications Limited, a Beijing-based telecommunications provider, to bring process sharing capabilities to Chinese automotive manufacturers.

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GXS Plans Web Venture for Chinese Auto Industry
The Washington Post
By Larry Liebert
March 13, 2006

China's government has a well-documented ambivalence toward the Web as a medium for the masses, demonstrated by its censorship of blogs and search engines. Authorities evidently have more enthusiasm for business-to-business Internet ventures.

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Outsourcing: BB&T Taps Firm to Aid In Treasury Management; Complex corporate transactions are often global. That means working with multiple payment formats.
US Banker
By John Adams
February 2006

PWhen a multinational corporation's looking for a financial institution to handle payments or wire transfers for a newly launched Asian subsidiary, the last thing the company wants to hear is that its bank can't work on the same electronic format as that new Asian outpost or its customers.


Supply Chain Blind Spots; Uncovering the holes in your global supply chain.
Computerworld
By Gary Anthes
February 20, 2006

U.S. companies are increasingly extending their operations overseas, looking for new markets, lower labor costs and better access to raw materials. Such expansion can bring advantages, but it can also introduce critical blind spots into supply chains as business and IT managers try to monitor activities thousands of miles away.

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Outsourcing: BB&T Gets Help In Tapping New Markets
Bank Technology News
John Adams
January 2006

When a multinational corporation's looking for a financial institution to handle payments or wire transfers for a newly launched Asian subsidiary, the last thing the company wants to hear is that its bank can't work on the same electronic format as that new Asian outpost or its customers.

That means institutions wishing to grab or maintain a large chunk of the treasury management market need to make sure technical potholes that can crop up because of different core systems, file formats or even currencies, get paved over. For BB&T, part of the answer is coming from outsourcing. "BB&T's got a lot of people who are sharp in bank technology, but may not necessarily know how a company that makes chemicals or computers utilizes technology. Our company does, so we can make it transparent," says Steve Keifer, a vp at GXS, the firm BB&T hired to manage treasury management IT. GXS offers an array of software and services that makes it easier for the financial institution to converse and interact with corporate customers, regardless of which applications are operating behind the corporation's firewall.

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GXS Targets Small, Midsize Businesses with Packaged Data Synchronization and RFID Solution
Supply & Demand Chain Executive
January 18, 2006

B2B connectivity specialist GXS has introduced what it said is the first automated, off-the-shelf, packaged data synchronization and radio frequency identification (RFID) solution, targeting the small and midsize enterprise market with an offering intended to reduce barriers to compliance with RFID mandates.

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Foreign Trade Initiative, Hudson Bay Company Enhances EDI Capabilities to Manage its Supply Chain
STORES
By Dan Hall
January 2006

Given Hudson's Bay Company's position as Canada's oldest corporation and largest department store retailer, it isn't surprising that it has more than 3,500 trading partners.

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Piggly Wiggly Carolina Eyes RFID; With the aid of data synch firm GXS, the 113-store franchise of the Piggly Wiggly grocery chain is getting ready to accept RFID-tagged shipments.
RFID Journal
By Mary Catherine O'Connor
January 17, 2006

Rachel Bolt, the assistant director of information systems for the Piggly Wiggly Carolina Co., has a message for those retailers who don't count themselves among giants like Wal-Mart and Target: RFID is going to help you.

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