How B2B Completes ERP – Part 2
Mark Morley, Industry Marketing Director
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ERP B2B CRM
CIOs Are Embracing the Cloud
“Our strategy will be one of simplification, standardization and
modernization. Where I can deem services and technology as being
commodity I will seek to externalise, outsource or place them in the
cloud” - Jeremy Vincent, CIO JLR
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B2B Integration is Moving to the Cloud...
Business Applications
ApplicationInfrastructure
Compute & Storage
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GXS Trading Grid® Provides a Single Integration Point Into Your Enterprise
Plant 1
HQ
Plant 2
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Benefits of Cloud Based B2B Integration
Global Accessibility
Scalability
Consistent User Experience
Low Cost
Easy to Maintain
Rapid Deployment
Flexibility
Central Authentication
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B2B Outsourcing Experience
Areas of Expertise• Infrastructure• Operations
• Implementation• Support
• Number One Transaction Outsourcing Vendor
– Over 600 customers utilizing GXS’s B2B outsourcing services today
• Extensive Transformation Capabilities– Capacity to develop 10,000 maps
annually– Over 30,000 maps and 200 document
types currently in production
• Areas of Expertise:– Program management– Global network infrastructure– e-Commerce operations management– 24x7 support, visibility and alerts
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B2B Outsourcing Environment
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Benefits of Using B2B Outsourcing for ERP B2B Integration Projects
• Ensures projects remain on time and under
budget with scalable resourcing and ERP
best practices
• Achieves faster ROI from new modules and
transaction types with rapid on-boarding of
trading partners
• Less risk of connectivity loss impacting
manufacturing operations with high
availability architecture
• Improves data quality for 1/3 of externally
originated information via ERP firewall
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ERPApps
SplitOrders
ConsolidateInvoices
ConfirmRequired
Fields
Translate Customer
Data
ConfirmValid Data
Split by Payment
Types
AggregateAccountBalances
Units ofMeasure
TransformCarrierCodes
Out ofSequence
Documents
Conforms toBusiness
Rules
Check within
Tolerances
ConfirmRequired
Fields
ConfirmValid Data
Customers and Distributors
Direct & Indirect Material Suppliers
Lo
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cial
In
stit
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Link Invoice
to Payment
B2B Helps to Establish an “ERP Firewall”
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How B2B Completes ERP
ERP/B2B integration
projects require numerous
document maps to be
created and maintained on
an on-going basis
Implementing Document Maps
Highly Available Platform
ERP systems need to be
able to receive information
from external trading
partners on a 24/7 basis
Trading Partner Connectivity
ERP systems need to be
connected to numerous
trading partners using
many different global
connectivity standards
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How B2B Completes ERP
Managing Trading Partner Communities
ERP/B2B integration
projects require fast
on-boarding of trading
partners, anywhere in
the world
Proactively Monitoring Data Quality
All external data needs to
be checked for accuracy
and conformance before
entering an ERP system
The complex nature of
ERP/B2B integration
projects requires skilled
resources to keep these
projects on schedule
Program Monitoring
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GXS, We Complete ERP
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For Further Information
www.b2bforsap.co.uk
www.b2bforsap.de
www.b2bforsap.com www.gxsinsights.eu
www.gxs.com/resources/insights/3rd_edition/
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