Webinars

Thought Leadership and Educational

• Which Communications Protocol Is Best for B2B Integration? Comparing AS2, FTP and Other Popular B2B e-Commerce Standards
  In this one-hour webinar, John Radko, GXS Chief Technology Strategist, describes the communications protocols available, discusses the key attributes of each, and explains how they work. Solutions for connectivity are also reviewed. This information will help you determine the right choice for your business needs.
• Beyond the Basics—Advance Ship Notice Best Practices Webinar
  Discover how to understand the real value behind the ASN for both the supplier and the retailer—improved receiving, distribution capabilities, cost reduction, and accurate auditing.
• AS2 or FTP: What’s Best for Your Company
  This webinar describes the most popular communications options, including the new AS2 Optional Profiles for AS2 Reliability and AS2 Restart.
• AS2—What Are My Implementation Options Webinar
  This webinar provides an overview of AS2 implementation challenges and the right approach for your company featuring GXS thought leaders John Radko, Chief Technology Strategist and Bob Heidish, Global Product Manager.
• Automating Supplier Information Management & Registration, featuring Comcast
  This webinar will demonstrate how Comcast successfully executed a paperless vendor registration process using GXS RollStream registration workflow for new trading partners.
• B2B Community Enablement – GXS Intelligent Web Forms
  During this 30-minute webinar you will learn about the options you have to maximize the efficiency of your supply chain by B2B-enabling your domestic and global small and mid-sized suppliers and customers.
• B2B Managed Services: What Is It, Really – And Will It Work for Me?
  B2B Managed Services promises to reduce the complexity, cost, and risk in your B2B operations.
• Client Lifecycle Management: The New Core Competency in Treasury & Transaction Management
  In less than one hour, Patricia Hines, director of financial services industry marketing at GXS, and Nick Parnaby, VP extended enterprise solutions at GXS, discuss how to reduce complexity of bank-to-business integration, automate manually intensive on-boarding processes, accelerate client implementation time frames, minimize incomplete or inaccurate client information, and decrease the difficultly in migrating customers when consolidating systems. Third-party research and financial services case studies are included.
• Driving Business Value Through B2B Outsourcing
  Learn how companies just like yours are generating significant business and technical value through B2B outsourcing.
• EDI + e-Invoicing = Compliance
  Electronic invoicing with regulatory compliance may not be as complex and challenging as you have been led to believe. View this 30-minute webinar during which Nigel Taylor, Marketing Director, e-Invoicing at GXS outlines the different forms of e-invoicing compliance, including tax data, authenticity, integrity and archiving and other related topics.
• Enhancing Customer-Centric Supply Chains
  In June of this year SCM World and Martin Christopher, Emeritus Professor of Marketing and Logistics at Cranfield School of Management, conducted a global survey of 819 cross-industry senior executives to gain an understanding of how organizations are exploiting the opportunities for collaborative working through adopting B2B e-commerce solutions.
• The Basics of Electronic Invoicing
  Electronic invoicing enables you to eliminate inefficiencies, cut costs, improve cash management and much more. And the benefits of e-invoicing apply to both the buyer’s accounts payable (AP) organization and the supplier’s accounts receivable (AR) team.
• e-Invoicing Outlook
  The role of governments, service providers, and global users in e-invoicing are discussed during this webinar.
• Enable your Excel-Based Trading Partners
  Learn how you can exchange critical business documents electronically throughout the world by leveraging Microsoft Excel.
• Implementing the Advance Ship Notice
  This case study is presented by Michelle Fader, director of vendor compliance, PUMA North America; Tim Bolton, EDI manager, Genesco, Inc.; and Melanie Nuce, GXS director of retail industry marketing. During this 45-minute session, you will discover why the advance ship notice is critical for B2B supply chain relationships and learn how to maximize the benefits of implementation within the enterprise and across trading partnerships.
• Improving Logistics Process with an “ERP Firewall” and Real-Time Visibility
  Discover how a major retailer has gained real-time visibility and 98% data accuracy in import logistics.
• Improve Warehouse Automation Success with ASNs and Data Quality Management – Featuring Macy’s
  During this one-hour session, Carol Wall, technology group director at Macy’s, discusses the success of their cross-docking program and floor-ready merchandise initiatives through the strategic implementation of technology and enhanced processes. Melanie Nuce, director retail industry marketing at GXS offers ways to increasing trading partner participation, explains why data accuracy and visibility are so important—and ways to improve both, presents best practices for overseeing large scale trading partner rollouts, and shares industry success stories.
• Introduction to EDI
  This 30-minute webinar provides an introduction to Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and EDI standards.
• 2012 Gartner Supply Chain Top 25: Live Q&A with Debra Hofman & Stan Aronow
  The results of this year’s Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 report have been released—who has made it into the Supply Chain Top 25, and who has been crowned supply chain leaders for 2012? View this webcast, where Debra Hoffman presents the 2012 rankings and discusses the best practices and achievements that have enabled each of the winners to be a Top 25 supply chain company.
• Key Technology Initiatives for Commercial Banking and Payments 2012
  In this webinar, Leo Lipis and Steve Murphy of CEB TowerGroup join GXS’s Patricia Hines to present the key business dynamics driving technology priorities in 2012, including SaaS and cloud computing. The webinar explores the movement towards standards and real-time payments, how banks are reviewing and improving the end-to-end client lifecycle management systems and processes and the consolidation and integration of existing technology.
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• Understanding Your Internet-Based Communication Options
  Discover how to decide on the right approach for your company and the variety of service options from GXS, including AS2, to help you implement according to your needs and timetable.
• Maximize the Benefits of an Advanced Ship Notice Implementation: Four Things You Need To Remember
  This one-hour webinar, presented by Melanie Nuce, Director Retail Industry Marketing at GXS, offers four key takeaways that will ensure your ASN initiative is wildly successful!
• Marks & Spencer Case Study — Achieving 100% Electronic Invoicing – A GXS Webinar
  During this one-hour session, Michael Brady, Program & Change Manager, Marks & Spencer describes how M&S achieved 100% success in their electronic invoicing program with 2,000 small- and medium-sized suppliers in just one year.
• OFTP2 – A New Communications Protocol for the Automotive Industry
  This on-demand webinar provides an overview of the GXS OFTP2 service and how it will be deployed to companies across the automotive industry. It is presented by Mark Morley, Industry Marketing Director, and Bob Heidish, Global Product Manager.
• A Primer on Data Synchronization
  During this one-hour session, Melanie Nuce, GXS director of retail industry marketing, provides an overview of data synchronization. You will learn: The importance of internal data synchronization, the most widely adopted standards and methods for exchanging product and price information with trading partners, and implementation considerations to take into account during the planning phase of a data synchronization project.
• Ralph Lauren Case Study: Electronic Invoicing with 2,000+ Small- and Medium-Sized Customers
  Ralph Lauren Corporation has successfully overcome the challenge of automating their invoicing and shipping processes with more than 2,000 of their small- and medium-sized customers. View this this one-hour session to see how you can make 100% paperless invoicing a reality at your company. Presented by Samantha Cooke, Ralph Lauren EDI manager and a B2B Heroes in the Cloud winner, describes the challenges Ralph Lauren faced, how they overcame the barriers, lessons learned, and results.
• How to Receive Electronic Orders from 100% of Your SMB Customers
  Learn why companies should strive to achieve 100% participation of trading partners in B2B programs, and how it can be accomplished—even for small- and medium-size customers.
• Importance of Supply Chain Collaboration in the New Normal
  The agility required for the New Normal economy demands new types of collaborative relationships between buyers and suppliers.
• The Role of IT Governance in the Xaas World—A Motorola Case Study with GXS
  This webinar will provide an overview of how Motorola Solutions tackled the various facets of IT governance that SaaS and Cloud providers imposed on their organization.
• Reporting on B2B Transactions with GXS Trading Grid®
  Get the most out of your Trading Grid Messaging Service reporting tools on Trading Grid Online. This webinar covers tips for data tracking workflow, personalizing report settings and performing common tasks to find and resolve transactional problems efficiently.
• The Basics: An Overview of GXS Managed Services with Case New Holland (CNH) America’s E-Commerce Manager, Sundar Nagarajan
  This webinar showcases how GXS customer, CNH America, has used GXS Managed Services to minimize costs while optimizing and extending B2B capabilities.
• Reduce Risk Through Supplier Compliance
  This one-hour session discusses how companies can provide clear guidance to suppliers on social compliance initiatives and reduce supply chain risks using GXS’s Community Intelligence solution powered by RollStream®.
• SAP-B2B Integration: Your Secret Weapon for Business Benefits and ROI
  In this 45-minute session, Mark Morley presents our best practice approach gained from over 80 SAP B2B integration projects.
• SWIFT and Corporate—Partnering to Grow
  Discover how this new service creates the world’s largest “B2Bank” business network by establishing interoperability between the largest networks for financial transactions and B2B e-commerce across all continents, giving companies a single way to connect with banks, suppliers and customers.
• Three Keys for Automating and Managing Your Supplier Community
  By automating and managing your supplier community, you can accelerate payables, reduce your debt, improve cycle times,provide better customer service and more.
• Trends in Supply Chain Visibility
  Learn how to use supply chain visibility tools to lower costs, find new revenue opportunities and improve collaboration with trading partners worldwide.
• Understanding VAT Compliance
  During this webinar, Christiaan van der Valk, CEO of TrustWeaver, explains what’s at stake for governments and why that matters for your business, the components of VAT compliance