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

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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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Thank You

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