Trading Grid Radio

E-Invoicing Past & Present —Rochelle Cohen, GXS Senior Product Marketing Manager, discusses trends in the e-invoicing market over the past 10 years. Rochelle explains factors that have catalyzed the digitization of accounts payable functions such as dynamic discounting, EU regulations and corporate sustainability initiatives.

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SWIFT Corporate Access — Stacy Rosenthal, a Senior Business Manager with SWIFT, provides a brief overview of the cooperative's worldwide financial network which connects over 8000 financial institutions in over 200 countries. Stacy explains why so many non-banks are now joining SWIFT to communicate with their banks in order to gain better visibility into their cash positions.

SWIFT for Financial Institutions — Stacy Rosenthal, a Senior Business Manager with SWIFT, explains how financial institutions are expanding their use of SWIFT during the on-going recession. Stacy explains the different connectivity options such as service bureaus that banks which are new to SWIFT can use to get on the network.

Customer-Centric Investments for the Insurance Sector — Michael Schramm, Group Vice President for Business Development with IVANS, offers a perspective on the US Insurance industry’s response to the current financial crisis. Michael explains how customer-centric technology initiatives will be the top priority for funding amongst insurers in the coming year.

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Banking on Transactions in 2009 — Len Goodman of Innovative Banking Solutions, comments on how the financial crisis will impact the Transaction Banking product lines of major financial institutions. Len offers advice on how banks can accelerate time-to-revenue for new cash management customers and product releases.

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Tracking Parts — Mark Morley, GXS Director of Industry Marketing for Automotive, explains the challenges with tracking service parts through the supply chain. Mark offers advice for manufacturers on how to grow aftermarket service revenues using technology.

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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.

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Data Synchronization Past & Present — Melanie Ligons, GXS Senior Product Manager, offers a perspective on the evolution of data synchronization technologies over the past 10 years. She discusses the origin of catalogs in the apparel sector, the creation of UCCnet and the formation of GDSN. Melanie offers her opinions on what strategies the industry could have taken to accelerate adoption.

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GUSI comes to America — Bryan Larkin, GXS Director of Industry Marketing for Retail and Consumer Products, explains the Global Upstream Supplier Initiative, an XML based standard growing in popularity within the US consumer goods segment. Bryan talks about the applications of GUSI and business benefits supply chain partners can achieve.

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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.

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Introduction to ASNs —GXS Product Manager, Melanie Ligons, explains the ASN and how it is used in the retail supply chain. Melanie also explains the benefits of ASNs to warehouse receiving, cross-docking and inventory management, both the buyer and supplier perspectives.

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Data Quality & Best Practices for ASNs —GXS Product Manager, Melanie Ligons, explains some of the key challenges buyers and suppliers confront with implementing ASNs. Melanie suggests best practices for integrating ASNs with shipping and receiving processes such as pick/pack, carton labeling and cross-docking.

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The Future of B2B in Emerging Markets —Mark Morley, Director of Industry Marketing for GXS discusses what we can we expect for B2B e-Commerce in emerging markets over the next 10 years. Mark explains the key catalysts which will drive adoption of B2B in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries and other rapidly developing markets in the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia.

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EDI VANs Past and Present —Marco de Vries, GXS Director of Market Intelligence, discusses how both VAN services and VAN providers have evolved over the past 10 years. Marco highlights some of the key factors that enabled EDI networks to combat the threats of e-marketplaces, supplier portals and AS2 direct connections.

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B2B for SMBs — Tom Varghese, GXS Senior Product Manager, explains the various options small businesses have for B2B e-commerce. Tom offers specific examples of how large trading partner communities are being enabled using technologies such as web forms and Microsoft Excel adapters

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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.

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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.

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B2B e-Marketplaces — A Look Back 10 Years Later - Pradheep Sampath, GXS Director of Product Management and Bryan Larkin, Supply Chain Strategist for Digital Management recount their experiences at i2 and Commerce One during the B2B e-Marketplace era. The group debates which of the e-marketplace models was most successful and reflects upon the long term impacts the exchanges had to the supply chain.

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New Customer Management Organization — Brian Koepsell, GXS Director of Customer Management for North America, explains the roles and responsibilities of his new organization. Brian also outlines his priorities for 2009 and how is organization is partnering with customers to weather the economic climate.

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Microsoft Excel and the Supply Chain — Tom Varghese, GXS Product Manager, introduces GXS new Trading Grid for Excel offering. Tom explains how SMBs can achieve new levels of efficiency by initiating B2B transactions directly from Microsoft Office.

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GXS launches TeamBook — Lori Kohne, GXS Senior Product Manager, explains the new TeamBook platform GXS is offering for collaboration with its customers. Lori explains the major features and benefits clients can expect including sharing map specifications and tracking change requests.

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TCO Advantage — Marco de Vries, GXS Director of Market Intelligence, explains the new TCO Advantage tool launched by GXS. Marco explains the techniques companies can use to quickly gain insights into the cost savings available from B2B outsourcing.

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GXS Grows in Brazil — Jamie Morvis, Director of Corporate Development at GXS, comments on the recent acquisition of Interchange in Brazil. Jamie discusses the rationale for the deal and long term growth prospects for GXS in the fast-growing Brazilian market.

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B2B Integration for Microsoft Dynamics — GXS Product Manager, Brian Greenberg, describes the various B2B integration options available Microsoft Dynamics AX users. Brian compares Microsoft’s integration strategy to other vendors such as Oracle and SAP. He also offers a preview of a new GXS service designed for Dynamics users.

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SAP and B2B Connectivity — John Radko, GXS Chief Technology Strategist, suggest best practices for how to connect an outsourced or in-house B2B gateway to SAP’s ERP applications. John discusses the pros and cons of Netweaver XI/PI, ALE and FTP-based connectivity approaches in different use case scenarios.

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Keeping ERP Projects On Schedule and Under Budget with B2B Integration — Ryan Kraudel, GXS Director of Product Management, explains the interrelationships between ERP and B2B Integration. Ryan offers examples of how mapping, testing, data quality and trading partner on-boarding activities can potentially delay an ERP consolidation, upgrade or extension project.

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ERP Firewall — Pradheep Sampath, GXS Director of Product Management, introduces the concept of the ERP firewall for manufacturing companies. Pradheep explains how such a firewall can prevent bad data generated by external trading partners from polluting SAP and Oracle applications.

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ERP Extension Projects and B2B — Pradheep Sampath, GXS Director of Product Management, identifies challenges that manufacturing companies experience when extending ERP systems with new supply chain planning and execution modules. Pradheep comments on how poor data quality and slow trading partner on-boarding can reduce the expected ROI projected from ERP extension projects.

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Companies Turn to Outsourcing in Economic Downturn — Ryan Kraudel - The B2B outsourcing market will defy the cost-cutting trend and continue to grow as expected (18-20% YOY) because it can help companies not only cut costs, but also boost top line revenue, improve customer satisfaction, and enhance supply chain effectiveness, even in a down market.

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Social Media for the Supply Chain —Allison Tobin, GXS Director of Corporate Communications, discusses how social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs and podcasts are not just for consumers. Allison offers examples of how companies are using social media to create Groundswells within the customer communities. She also discusses early applications of these technologies in the supply chain sector such as Rollstream’s enterprise community management service.

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B2B on 4G —Mark Morley, Director of Industry Marketing for GXS discusses how new wireless technologies such as 100Mbps 4G networks and improved user interfaces from Apple will expand adoption of mobile computing in the coming years. Mark offers examples of how supply chain managers will be able to download logistics applications from a “Corporate App Store” in the near future.

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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.

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The Price of Carbon —Jamie OHalloran, Senior Solutions Consultant and Sustainability Director for GXS, comments on how the green movement and the price of carbon will impact consumer purchasing patterns and supply chain dynamics in the coming years. Jamie discusses new approaches to logistics such as “slow ocean transport” and nuclear-powered commercial freight.

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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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