Overview

podcastsTrading Grid Radio is a podcast series that explores the latest news and emerging trends in the B2B integration market. Hosted by Steve Keifer, GXS VP of Product and Industry Marketing and author of the EDInomics blog, Trading Grid Radio features a series of interviews with subject matter experts on a variety of topics such as:
  • Supply Chain Strategies – Demand Driven Supply Chains, Sustainability and Climate Change
  • Business Processes – Logistics and Transportation, Invoicing and Payment, Product Catalog
  • Vertical Industries – Automotive, High Tech, Consumer Products, Retail and Banking
  • Technology – B2B Standards, Cloud Computing, Software as a Service, Disaster Recovery and Security

Trading Grid Radio Channels

Channel WINV 81.0MHz — Invoicing and Spend Management

The Paper Trail – Rochelle Cohen, GXS Senior Product Marketing Manager, provides a view of the current level of automation and digitization in place for accounts payable processes. Rochelle discusses the key challenges and complexities preventing wider adoption of e-invoicing.
E-Invoicing Options for Small Businesses – Rochelle Cohen, GXS Senior Product Marketing Manager, outlines the various options for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses to send and receive electronic invoices. The discussion focuses on Web EDI and accounting package integration solutions for QuickBooks, Peachtree, MYOB and Sage.

Channel 2PAY 82.0MHz — Payments and Banking

Sounds of SIBOS Part 1 – Tracy Bramlet, GXS Industry Marketing Director for Financial Services, discusses her experience and takeaways at the 2008 SWIFT SIBOS Conference in Vienna, Austria. Highlights include SWIFT’s expansion into the Insurance sector, emerging markets and the small and medium business segment.
Sounds of SIBOS Part 2- – Mark Mixter, GXS Senior Product Manager and former banker, recounts his experiences at the 2008 SWIFT SIBOS Conference in Vienna, Austria. Highlights include SWIFT’s Corporate Access program and Microsoft’s adoption of ISO 20022 XML.

Channel CAR1 83.0MHz — Automotive Industry

India’s Automotive Market – Mark Morley, GXS Director of Industry Marketing for Automotive, provides an overview of the rapidly emerging automotive sector in India. Mark discusses challenges for growth and offers his opinion on how India will compete with China in the global market.
B2B e-Commerce in India’s Manufacturing Sector – Mark Morley, GXS Director of Industry Marketing for Automotive, offers insights on the use of technology in the nascent Indian manufacturing sector. Mark discusses how the use of B2B and EDI technology will spread from multi-national to local businesses.

Channel E–CAT 83.2MHz — Data Synchronization

GDSN in 2008 – Melanie Ligons, GXS Global Product Manager for Data Synchronization and Catalog, offers an update on the Global Data Synchronization Network. Topics include GS1 GDSN expansion into new geographic regions and vertical industries.
VICS EDI Catalog in 2008 – Melanie Ligons, GXS Global Product Manager for Data Synchronization and Catalog, compares the VICS EDI Catalog standard utilized in the US Department Store sector to the newer GDSN model. Additionally, Melanie highlights some of the new initiatives in the Catalog space.

Channel H1–TEC 85.0MHz — High Tech and Electronics

Standards Associations in the High Tech Industry – Bryan Larkin, GXS Director of Industry Marketing and member of the Board of Governors for EIDX, explains the role of standards organizations such as RosettaNet and OAG, and industry associations such as EIDX and EDIFICE that service the B2B community within high tech.
High Tech Initiatives in 2008 – Bryan Larkin, Director of Industry Marketing and member of the Board of Governors for EIDX, highlights a few of the major initiatives being pursued by the High Tech industry associations in 2008. Topics discussed include the Perfect Order and Small Business enablement.

Channel B2B–CPG 85.2MHz — Consumer Products and Retail

Entertainment Industry and the Demand Driven Supply Chain – Bryan Larkin, Director of Industry Marketing, provides insights on how the supply chain for movies, music and video games is transforming. Bryan discusses the migration towards demand-driven replenishment models in both the physical and digital value chain.
Perfect Order in the Entertainment Industry – Bryan Larkin, Director of Industry Marketing, demystifies the evolving retail performance metrics being implemented for entertainment suppliers. Bryan explains how suppliers can utilize B2B to improve Perfect Order metrics through automation and data quality.

Channel WASN 85.6MHz — Logistics and Transportation

Logistics Sector Challenges in 2008 – Pradheep Sampath, GXS Director of Supply Chain Visibility Products, offers his perspective on the impacts of rising energy costs, global sourcing risks and government regulation on the transportation industry.

Channel WEDI 99.7MHz— B2B Technologies and Standards

IP Communications – Bob Heidish, GXS Global Product Manager for Communications and Connectivity, offers his view points on the growing adoption of Internet-based transmission for B2B transactions. Bob discusses the most popular protocols being used on GXS Trading Grid.
AS3, AS4 and Beyond – Bob Heidish, GXS Global Product Manager for Communications and Connectivity, offers his viewpoints on the pros and cons of utilizing HTTPS, AS3 and MQ Series. Bob also offers his viewpoints on new standards under development such as AS4.

Radio GXS 100.0MHz — GXS Strategy and Vision

Managed Services – Ryan Kraudel, GXS Director of Product Management, explains the concept of Managed Services as well as the driving factors behind the rapidly growing demand for multi-national corporations to outsource B2B programs.

K–SaaS 110.0MHz — Emerging Technologies

Predictions for Cloud Computing – John Radko, GXS Chief Technology Strategist, offers his views on how cloud computing will evolve towards a more mainstream technology model in the coming years. Includes predictions on how the leading vendors (amazon.com, Google, IBM and Microsoft) will succeed or struggle in this new technology paradigm.
Cloud Computing and B2B – John Radko, GXS Chief Technology Strategist, explains how B2B technologies will profit from the new cloud computing models. John outlines a vision for how GXS Trading Grid will leverage cloud technologies moving forward.

LO–CO2 120.0MHz — Green Supply Chain

Saving 10 Million Trees – Jamie O’Halloran, GXS Senior Solutions Consultant, outlines several initiatives retailers and manufacturers can take to reduce the carbon footprint of their supply chains. He also explains the quantifiable benefits to the environment that could be achieved by removing all the paper from supply chain processes.
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