Driven by a growing internet business, Lamps Plus needed to evolve its processes from manual (all purchase orders were done via fax) to automated. Today, Lamps Plus has achieved its goal with more than 90% of orders placed, received and invoices electronically processed with its suppliers.

Shippers, freight forwarders and delivery service companies use Datatrac's flagship shipment tracking product, eTrac to track package location and movement in real-time. Adding, connecting, and integrating new clients such as shippers and other customers required custom programming. Whether they were using such standards as EDI and FTP, were providing data in their own format, or needed a new protocol that Datatrac had not implemented, the company had work to do for every connection.

The e-Commerce Team is a newly developed group at ADM, created by combining the company's EDI team with its e-ADM Team. The mission of this new group is to provide the company's business partners with efficient methods in which to conduct business. These value-added electronic services make it more convenient and profitable to do business with ADM.

This week eC-BP.org hosted its Second Annual Best Practices Awards Dinner. The ceremony was an invitation-only event held on Tuesday evening at the Oak Tavern in the Opryland hotel. It was held during the UConnect conference, making it convenient for many of the nominees who were attending UConnect this week.