Internet EDI Solutions

GXS Internet EDI

Add Web-Based EDI to Your Lineup

In order for your business to be successful, an efficient, consistent, and reliable way to communicate with trading partners must be in place. Internet EDI is one of the ways GXS makes it possible for your company to communicate electronically with your partners via the Internet. When Internet-based EDI is implemented, your company is able to take advantage of every bit of time and money your supply-chain delivers. GXS can assist you in your endeavors to expand your reach, efficiency, and integration of your supply chain.

If you are interested in Web-based EDI communication but are unsure of how to implement it, GXS can help. Our experts have been working with supply-chain and B2B EDI communications for more than 35 years and have earned the business of 75 percent of Fortune 500 companies. If you are interested in how GXS Internet-based EDI Services can help your company, contact us and speak with a knowledgeable GXS representative about Internet EDI today.

Internet Based EDI: Electronic EDI Services

When your company employs Internet-based EDI, you can expect expanded communication with a majority of your community members. Opening up these communication channels and exchanging information over them efficiently is the heart of our EDI Services.

GXS Internet EDI solutions allow your company to exchange data with various trading partners who may be using different computer systems and a different EDI format. Because each company is unique and has specific needs, we work to address these requirements with a variety of options for Information Exchange, including interface software to enable your community to become active as quickly as possible.

GXS is committed to making our customers' use of Internet EDI as streamlined as possible. We work continually to enhance the benefits of using such a system. Employing GXS's Internet EDI services gives you the following advantages:

• Reliable and secure Internet communication solutions
• Integration of legacy systems
• End-to-end data transfer and translation capabilities

GXS also provides administrative services, distribution lists, archiving, event-driven EDI, acknowledgements, and error recovery. Additionally, to help with timing and scheduling difficulties, GXS offers our specialized electronic mailbox. This assists in translating differing systems and data formats and it allows for convenient message retrieval and reduced communication costs. By having the computer process data only when prompted, it means that it is not exclusively committed to the communications function.

Business Exchange Services

Quick implementation of your Internet-based EDI solution is very important. With GXS, you are assured the seamless and inexpensive execution of your B2B communication strategy. Formerly an IBM solution, GXS's Business Exchange Services is delivered to you as a utility with both a month-by-month subscription fee for the transport of data and a separate bill for the data conversion services you need. The process is simple: as your need for more trading partners grows, you simply enter to a new subscription level. Additionally, you will have access to supplementary capacity as your business experiences any unexpected surge in activity.

Because GXS is interested in moving the process along to get you involved as quickly as possible, we offer you simple and easy Internet EDI implementation and affordable start-up costs, as well at helpful EDI consulting along the way. By simplifying the overall Internet EDI solution, GXS feels that your company will experience priceless benefits. Our Internet Transfer services are the data transport element of the GXS Business Exchange Services. Because Internet Transfer can deliver to a variety of supported protocol and connectivity options, your data transfer is simplified and dependable. Along with this obvious advantage, GXS also provides an abundance of management services that are extremely advantageous to your company:

• Profile Management
• Communications Management
• Security Management
• Delivery Management
• Trading Community Management

Web-Based EDI: Community Link^SM

GXS is always looking for ways to improve the services we offer our customers. We know that your current business responsibilities are a lot to handle so we have found a way to help you devise your web-based EDI communications. Community Link^SM is an outsourcing tool that enables companies to connect with global partners. Because you are busy enough, GXS offers this tool to you without the responsibility of managing it. It is important to us that you are not weighed down with complicated, technical issues during your upgrade to Internet EDI.

Community Link is an outsourcing option offered by GXS to allow for a more effective Internet EDI by working with the major trading community networks and recognizing a variety of proven IP protocols including FTP, HTTP, AS2, AS3, and ebXML. By easily translating these languages, Community Link makes it possible to for your community to communicate with multiple trading partners. Up and running in a matter of minutes, Community Link is pre-configured for many trading partners, which in turn reduces the operator training time.

To make the Internet EDI set-up even easier, Community Link can be easily integrated with a variety of EDI software packages including:

• GXS Desktop EDI™
• GXS Application Integrator™
• Emanio's Trading Partner Desktop
• Inovis's TrustedLink™ (Windows, AS/400)
• Sterling's Gentran: Director (Windows, UNIX, and AS/400)
• And many others

In addition to the advanced technical support and exchange management, our software compatible services are designed to mature along with you. As your company develops, you will see more benefits of Community Link. With a majority of your trading partners in full participation, your company will experience decreased supply chain and procurement costs, enhanced invoice tracking, less manual work, improved employee productivity, and increased communication effectiveness.

If you are interested in discovering if any of GXS's Internet EDI Services, such as Community Link, are right for you, please contact us or visit our Community Link^SM section of this Web site to learn more today.