Sage moves into the cloud with Sage 200 Online

 

Sage UK and Ireland has gone into the cloud, launching the first online version of its Sage 200 ERP suite on Microsoft's Azure platform.

The ERP software, named Sage 200 Online, is aimed at small to mid-sized businesses with 20 to 200 employees, and will give customers access to the same financial management features as the existing on-premise Sage 200 ERP. Users will also be able to add additional modules to the suite as part of a pay-for-use model.

Sage 200 Online will be available on a 'pay as you go' basis, with customers able to choose modules that are relevant to them, not paying for what they don't use, and to add and remove users to respond to fluctuations in demand. Customers who prefer to continue using the existing on-premise solution can continue to do so and will not be forced by Sage to switch to the new Sage 200 Online product.

B2BGateway will continue to provide industry leading cloud-based, fully integrated solutions for all Sage products. For further information on B2BGateway’s fully integrated EDI solutions for the Sage 200 ERP suite of products please visit B2BGateway Sage 200 EDI or call +353 61 708533.

EDI - Get In the Game!

Did you know?

 

·         The majority of the world’s leading retailers Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Carrefour, Tesco, Boots, CVS and thousands more will not offer your organization a supplier contract until your business is EDI enabled.

·         Fully integrated EDI solutions remove the need to re-key data, thus saving your organization time, money and greatly reducing costly errors and chargebacks.

·         You can use EDI to communicate effectively and efficiently with your Third Party Logistics Provider (3PL) or outsourced warehouse. Leading 3PL providers such as Kuehne+Nagel, Motivational Fulfillment & Logistics Services, Team Logistics, Kamino and many, many more use EDI to connect directly with your organization and your trading partners.

·         EDI is rapidly becoming best business practice in eCommerce and online retail (Amazon, Buy.com). Your organization can also use EDI to connect your shopping cart platform (3dcart, Magento, Volusion) to your back end business software.

·         By automating your organizations business document flow thru EDI you can speed up payment and greatly reduce your organizations ‘order to payment’ cash cycle.

·         Cloud based EDI solutions are extremely cost efficient and do not require your organization to invest in additional hardware, software or personnel. 

Be prepared to grow your business – Get In the Game with EDI! For further details on B2BGateway.Net’s cloud based, fully integrated EDI solutions please visit www.B2BGateway.Net, email Sales@B2BGateway.Net or call +1 (401) 491 9595.

B2BGateway EDI Order Portals – Receive your orders faster and error free!

 

Question: Are many of your customers still calling in, faxing or emailing their orders to you? Does this put a strain on your staff resources, create errors and confusion, and generally make your supply chain processes less efficient? If the answer is yes to any of the above, it is time that you considered introducing a B2BGateway Order Portal to allow efficient communications between your organization and your customers. Having a B2BGateway Order Portal will allow your organization to:

·         Display all your products on a drop down menu allowing your customers to choose which products and quantity that they would like to order electronically.

·         Eliminate paper, phone calls and email orders. Have one simple solution for your organizations order taking.

·         Import orders (EDI 850) from your customers direct to your back end Accounting/ERP software system. Full seamless, cloud based integration with no need to re-key data.

·         The B2BGateway Order Portal will be fully customized with your organizations, branding, colors and logos.

·         Reduce costs, errors and labor associated with manual data entry.

·         Add or delete customers as the need arises.

·         Communicate special offers, end of product lines, events or trade information.

·         Be compliant with all global EDI standards including ANSI X12, UN/EDIFACT, EANCOM, Tradacoms, Odette, XML etc.

What are the benefits for your customers?

·         As the solution is web based your customers will not need to invest in additional hardware or software systems – all they will require is a computer and an internet connection.

·         Your customers will be able to create, send, save and edit all orders that they send to your organization.

·         Past orders can be copied to create a new order in order to facilitate easy ordering.

·         There is an on screen record of all transactions and your customers will have the ability to edit their own company information and login passwords.

·         It helps speed up the ‘Order to Payment’ cash cycle and streamline the overall supply chain process.

For further information on B2BGateway’s Order Portal and how it can help you achive great overall supply chain efficiencies between your organization and your customers please click here or email Sales@B2BGateway.Net

 

 

B2BGateway’s EDI solutions achieve ‘Built for NetSuite’ verification.

‘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, built using the NetSuite SuiteCloud Computing Platform, meet new NetSuite standards and best practices. The ‘Built for NetSuite’ program is designed to give NetSuite customers additional confidence that SuiteApps have been built to meet these standards.

To participate in ‘Built for NetSuite’, B2BGateway a long term NetSuite EDI partner since 2001,  was required to review its NetSuite EDI SuiteApp solution against NetSuite's standards and submit to NetSuite a verification of compliance with the documented practices for architecture, development, privacy and security. The ‘Built for NetSuite’ review team also required B2BGateway to provide a demonstration of its fully integrated EDI solution for NetSuite as well as positive customer references. B2BGateway will repeat the verification semi-annually in sync with the NetSuite product release cycle in order to maintain its ‘Built for NetSuite’ badge.

 

For more information on B2BGateway's EDI solutions for NetSuite please visit www.B2BGateway.Net

Congratulations to Russ Griffith of e2b teknologies - Winner of our Hot Air Balloon Ride at Sage Summit!

Congratulations to Russ Griffith of e2b technologies, winner of our grand prize of a Hot Air Balloon Ride at last year’s Sage Summit. Russ had a great time travelling over some spectacular scenery and sent us these pictures with a brief note: “I wanted to let you (B2BGateway.Net) know that we were able to take our balloon ride over this past weekend.  We flew on Sunday morning and it was absolutely great!  I wanted to say thank you again!  My sister and I had a great time on the flight and we got a few pictures that I wanted to share with you”. We are so glad that you enjoyed it Russ and we look forward to meeting you and all the Sage partners and clients again at this years Sage Summit which takes place at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center | National Harbor, MD (near Washington, DC) from July 21-26, 2013.

To learn more about B2BGateway.Net's cloud based, fully integrated EDI solutions for Sage please visit www.B2BGateway.Net

Webinar: 4 Reasons ERP Software Experts Prefer EDI by B2BGateway

 

 

 

Click on the above image to register for our latest webinar in association with ERP VAR: 4 Reasons ERP Software Experts Prefer EDI by B2BGateway.

Call +1 (401) 491 9595 or email Sales@B2BGateway.Net for further details.

What is AS2?

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 over the Internet. Security is achieved by using digital certificates and encryption. In short AS2 is a secure way to exchange data over the internet, in this case the exchange of PO’s, Invoices and ASNs (Advance Ship Notices) between your organization and Walmart.

Document exchange requires more than just moving data over a wire. Because business documents are the basis not only of business planning and operations, but also the legal obligations between companies, the documents must be transferred securely, processed quickly and delivered reliably. AS2 is one of a small number of emerging standards that addresses these requirements and is becoming a very popular communication protocol used in EDI today. Walmart has been one of the great advocates of the adoption of AS2 in the EDI marketplace and many more have followed since.

If you would like to learn more about AS2 or indeed any other EDI communication protocol such as VAN, FTP, FTPs, HTTP, etc please email Sales@B2BGateway.Net or call (401) 491 9595 for further details.

Louisa Gooding is Director of Sales & Marketing at B2BGateway.Net