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Written by Marlow Atticus
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
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2010 appears to be the year of Global expansion into new retail markets. With that outreach comes new trading issues, different divisions, and net new trading partners. If you’re in this mode, there are several things that you’ll need to consider when looking at Electronic trading. There are different EDI standards, different EDI transactions, different needs with regard to data content, and trading partners that may not have been asked in the past to support different order models when trading electronically. Who a supplier is trading with may determine what EDI standards you may need to support. In some cases, the partners are willing to support X12 EDI standards, in other cases this could be one of several EDIFACT standards like Tradacom, EANCOM or other flavors/versions of EDIFACT.
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Written by Marlow Atticus
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Monday, 08 February 2010 |
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With the number of Retailers, Distributors and suppliers I work with it amazes to me that with the tough economic times we are experiencing, companies still do not know the cost of doing business. The use of EDI can not be utilized to its fullist potential within an organization without having some understanding of the expense of each process/step within a supply chain. Let’s take a look at the 3 common EDI transactions; The Purchase Order, Advance Ship Notice and the Invoice.
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Written by Marlow Atticus
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Monday, 11 January 2010 |
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By now most of you have reported the success of the past holiday selling season. For many of you, 2009 was better than 2008. However in reviewing post-season operations, you may have realized that you had less inventory than your customers wanted, your suppliers were not able to satisfy all of your orders, you had the wrong merchandise mix, or the right merchandise but in the wrong locations. And some of the orders barely made it to your customers in time. It's not too early to start looking at other options in preparation for next season. Maybe its time to look at different methods of distributing your products.
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Written by Marlow Atticus
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Monday, 07 December 2009 |
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Well, we are near the end of one of the most difficult economic years in decades, so with the writing of this month’s article I hope to find most of you hanging in there.
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Written by Marlow Atticus
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Monday, 05 October 2009 |
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Since writing in June on on-boarding your International Supply Chain, I’ve had quite a few questions regarding this process. There appears to be a misconception that suppliers outside of North America either are not able to support EDI programs (particularly the ASN) or, because of the use of Expeditor/Consolidators, do not need to support an EDI program. This assumption is incorrect.
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