'Built for NetSuite' is a new program for NetSuite SuiteCloud Developer Network (SDN) partners that provides them with information, resources and a method to verify that their applications and integrations...

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Winning Feels Good!
Congratulations to Russ Griffith of e2b teknologies, winner of our grand prize of a Hot Air Balloon Ride at last year's Sage Summit 2012. Russ had a great time and sent us these pictures with a brief note...

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What is eCommerce?: eCommerce has been described as being a virtual market place, whereby all the transactions that occur in the physical world are also available on computer systems via the Internet. The main act...

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In Real Estate we are always told the key to success is all about Location, Location, Location! I would like to try and bring this maxim to the world of Third Party Logistics (3PL), where I believe the key to success should be Automate, Automate, Automate...

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Question: Hi Roger, my retailer wants me to add Advance Ship Notices and GS1-128 barcode labels to our EDI process. Are there any advantages in doing this for our firm? Or is this all just for the retailer's benefit?

Answer: It is a common misconception that the addition of the ASN (Advance Ship Notice) and GS1-128 label will only be of benefit to your trading partner and ...

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Question: Hi Louisa, I have just landed a contract to supply Walmart (woohoo!) but they want me to do EDI by using something called AS2. Do you know what AS2 is?

Answer: Hi Jim, thanks for the question. Yes, AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) is a specification intended to ensure the proper level of security and reliability for data transmitted...

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Question: Hi Louisa, I work in the Healthcare Industry and have been recently asked by one of our trading partners if we can handle the EDI 837 and EDI 835 Transaction Sets. Do you know what these are?

Answer: Hi Stephanie, thanks for your question. I will answer separately on both the EDI 837 and EDI 835 as follows...

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Question: Hi Louisa, our customer (a large store retailer) wants us to do something called VMI and the EDI 852 document. Do you know what these mean?

Answer: Hi Todd, thanks for your question. Vendor-Managed inventory (VMI) is a business model in which the buyer of a product provides certain information to a vendor/supplier of that product and the supplier takes full responsibility for maintaining an agreed level of inventory, usually at the buyer's store.

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Question: Hi Roger, we recently got a contract to supply an organization in Germany which will require EDI. This would normally be no problem to us as we have been doing EDI with our North American trading partners for over four years; however, our new German contract requires us to use EDIFACT rather than X12 as their preferred EDI standard. Could you highlight the main differences between X12 and EDIFACT and suggest what I should do?

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B2BGateway.Net, specialists in global EDI and eCommerce Data Integration, have just announced that they have helped client's complete over 4,100,000 transactions during the Holiday Season 2012. This represents a 35% increase in completed transactions when compared to the same period in 2011.

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Question: Hi Louisa, I work for an automotive supplier and one of our customers recently stated that they wanted to start sending us an EDI 830 document. Would you be able to explain more about what an EDI 830 is and its purpose?

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In 2010, GS1 UK commissioned Professor Richard Wilding of the Cranfield School of Business Management to carry out a report on EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) with regard to the UK retail sector. Professor Wilding and his team performed exhaustive research and highlighted in great detail all the advantages that are normally associated with EDI: It's faster, data is more accurate, improved process efficiencies, cost savings and it eliminates paper...

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