Supply Chain Integration

The need for optimized supply chain integration and B2B integration continues to grow as businesses become more competitive and profit margins decrease across the board. You can't afford any outages or hiccups in your network because even the briefest outage can disrupt the entire chain and potentially cost millions in lost revenue.

Seamless B2B supply chain integration requires the ability to move ever-increasing volumes of data and information instantly, delivering real-time visibility into inventory levels and communicating your sales and stock forecasts to every one of your partners, in accordance with existing processes and regardless of your partners' level of technical expertise.

Please contact a GXS representative to discuss how our comprehensive suite of services can provide optimal B2B supply chain integration to you and your trading partners.

GXS Trading Grid® for Optimal B2B Integration

Communication is the lifeblood of successful B2B supply chain integration. The GXS Trading Grid® provides access to one of the world's most extensive e-business communities, one that provides an intermediary between trading partners, allowing them to effectively communicate despite any differences in technology and process. The Trading Grid is a secure, centrally-hosted B2B integration platform through which businesses can address supply chain issues, disperse forecasts, coordinate supply with demand, and synchronize product information and pricing.

Regardless of the size of your business, the GXS Trading Grid can provide a B2B supply chain integration solution that suits your needs.

Seamless Supply Chain Integration- Five Integrated Components

To facilitate comprehensive B2B supply chain integration, the GXS Trading Grid is composed of five major components:

• Trading Grid Infrastructure Services comprise the Trading Grid's foundation and provide an online, centralized, Web-based portal for users throughout the supply chain.
• SMB (Small to Medium-Sized Business) Enablers and Enterprise Adaptors provide the means for all partners, regardless of size or technological prowess, to conduct e-commerce without changing existing business processes.
• Trading Grid Messaging Services allow for secure and reliable event-driven B2B communication, eliminating the need for continual close management of the supply chain.
• Trading Grid Intelligence Services allow businesses superior flexibility so they can respond quickly to changes in supply and demand. These B2B integration services also provide analytics for further insight and to increase a company's competitive edge.
• Trading Grid Application Services complement and extend a company's existing internal services, leveraging the other Trading Grid services to automate business processes conforming to the particular industry. With these services, small and medium-sized businesses can compete with larger companies in their industry.

These integrated components work in harmony to create a comprehensive, holistic solution to optimal B2B supply chain integration, eliminating roadblocks and facilitating e-communication throughout the entire partner network.

The Trading Grid adapts to fit your business and your needs, whether you're a multinational corporation firmly established overseas but interested in further B2B integration, or a small company just beginning to test the waters of e-commerce.

Contact us if you would like to know more about GXS Trading Grid and how these components work in coordination to provide seamless supply chain integration.

Small to Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs)

Complete supply chain integration relies on the ability to build and maintain global relationships. We unite trading partners with B2B integration solutions that provide a single communications platform, thus reducing costs, complexity, and risks. Our unparalleled network of partners can give your business, regardless of size, access to global opportunities and allow you to initiate and grow strategic relationships with partners worldwide.

GXS is an e-business service provider to more than 40,000 small to medium-sized businesses. We understand the challenges businesses face when they adopt e-commerce solutions. Our goal as an intermediary is to enable superior supply chain integration, allowing you to effectively communicate with all your business partners and grow your business in accordance.

Our comprehensive offering of hosted e-commerce services and solutions eliminates the prohibitive costs normally associated with e-commerce adoption—no need to allocate for additional hardware, software, or training.

B2B Supply Chain Integration for Today's Businesses

In today's business climate, companies—no matter what size—cannot afford wasted buffer inventory, stock outages, lost labor hours, or less than seamless real-time communication with their suppliers or business partners. GXS is the world's leading provider of B2B supply chain integration solutions and services. More than 75 percent of the Fortune 500 use the suite of services—the GXS Trading Grid—to seamlessly synchronize supply with demand and effectively respond to supply chain events in real time. For those considering taking all or part of your supply chain overseas, GXS can provide B2B integration for immediate access to qualified trading partners in over 65 countries.

For further information, or to discuss how we can enhance and grow your business with optimal supply chain integration, please contact a GXS representative today.