B2B Inventory Control Management

The key to optimal inventory control management is ensuring that effective communication is in place throughout the entire supply chain of your retail business. GXS knows that the most successful businesses are the ones who make use of cutting-edge, real-time electronic collaboration tools with their trading partners.

Not only are we enabling improved levels of trading information exchange every day, but we're also enabling real-time communication between both large businesses and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). All of our services are available as on-demand applications that we host for you. This means that companies no longer need to worry about costly up-front investments in hardware or software inventory control management tools.

With the ability of the Internet to bring together businesses within a hosted, on-demand environment, GXS can help a broad range of companies construct comprehensive, yet scalable, solutions for supply chain and inventory control management. If GXS inventory control management services sound like a good fit for your company, contact GXS, your complete e-business solution provider today.

Supply Chain Management (SCM) in today's competitive market needs to be intelligent, collaborative, and real-time. To achieve accurate inventory control management, suppliers and retailers need complete e-business solutions with visibility across the entire supply chain.

What can On-Demand Supply Chain Management from GXS deliver to you? Global access to current inventory stock levels, purchase orders, real-time order tracking, coordinating promotional efforts, and more. Contact GXS today to explore how we can take your supply chain and inventory control management processes to the next level.

On-Demand Supply Chain Management—Complete e-Business Solutions

GXS solutions can help you integrate all areas of your supply chain: order lifecycle, inventory status, invoices, payments, manufacturing processes and more. From warehouse inventory control management to extending supply networks into Asia, On-Demand Supply Chain Management from GXS offers complete e-business solutions. Now you can:

• Extend Supply Networks – GXS can help you extend your supply networks through a variety of inventory control management services, helping to enable partners in emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia, India and China. With our extensive experience, staff, and infrastructure, GXS can create e-commerce initiatives for your trading partners, no matter what their size, location, or technical capability.
• Optimize Product Launches – Did you know that the typical product launch is delayed by an average of two to four weeks, due to inefficient workflow and communication? With product and inventory control management services from GXS, you can simplify product launches and synchronize new item information with all of your supply chain participants. Our scalable systems help track product availability, control promotions, share forecasts, and monitor product replenishment and sales activities.
• Manage & Receive Warehouse Inventory – From ASNs (Advanced Shipment Notices) to RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), GXS warehouse inventory control management solutions help suppliers relay essential product status information to customers. Instead of chasing paper, GXS enables retailers to plan their entire warehouse activity based on real-time product information. You can electronically track shipments, synchronize product data, prevent unanticipated shortages or overages, and more. RFID services take warehouse inventory management to a level far beyond basic barcodes, helping you capture and manage products more efficiently than ever before.
• End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility – Achieve true supply chain visibility with next-generation visibility solutions from GXS. Improve the production process and gain insight into customer service issues, inventory control management, transportation costs, and more with our Order-to-Invoice Visibility Solutions. Or, take advantage of Global Shipment Tracking services to manage your global sourcing-related activities. And especially useful in terms of inventory control management are our Inventory Monitoring services, which provide real-time vendor product availability information across multiple channels.
• Manage Payments & Cash Flow – GXS offers complete e-business solutions that use real-time information exchange to obtain a clear, accurate, and global view of cash activity. We'll help you electronically share payment processing information, as well as wholesale/retail lockbox, cash concentration, account reconciliation, and more. We can also provide straight-through processing for payables and receivables, eliminating costly paper trails and inefficient export processes.

The GXS Trading Grid®—Streamlining B2B Integration

The GXS Trading Grid® is our proprietary suite of next-generation B2B integration products and services. One of the world's largest electronic trading communities, the GXS Trading Grid accelerates the exchange of information between businesses worldwide and supports our unique goal of No Trading Partner Left Behind. Expanding boundaries in this way extends benefits to the global market as a whole, providing opportunities for businesses both large and small to join an integrated trading network. Scalable and cost-effective, our Trading Grid services allow businesses to solve critical issues such as product data synchronization, inventory control management, and demand forecasting.

The GXS Trading Grid has the following major integrated components:

• Global Messaging – Our global messaging services offer everything from connectivity options to interchange services for exchanging EDI and XML documents. You can connect with trading partners around the world through an integrated platform, compatible with many different connectivity types and message formats.
• B2B Gateways – Connect your critical business and inventory control management systems in real-time to those of your business partners. Synchronize key supply chain activities such as forecasts, orders, shipments, payments, and more, regardless of your ERP system. GXS also provides any-to-any document translation through our Application Integrator™ tools.
• Accelerators – These simple B2B enablement solutions provide fast and easy integration with trading partners through EDI and more, allowing you to stay on top of everything from accounting integration to inventory control management.
• Data Synchronization – GXS solutions help you with internal product inventory control management as well as synchronizing this crucial data with all of your trading partners. We even offer a hosted catalog designed specifically for apparel and footwear manufacturers.
• Visibility Solutions – From gaining insight into in-progress orders throughout your supply chain (including international shipments) to effective inventory control management through our inventory visibility solutions, GXS provides the real-time data your business needs to stay in the game.

Inventory Control Management for Retailers

In order to help retailers create customer loyalty by ensuring products are on the shelves when they are in demand, our inventory control management solutions for retailers will effectively and efficiently meet the unique needs of your business.

If you are interested in learning more about how GXS's proven solutions can help your company, please contact us today.