Did you know that Amazon will be launching its full retail services in Australia in late 2017/early 2018?

To date Amazon has only offered its Kindle and AWS services to the Australian market, however that is soon about to change as Amazon prepares to launch its full range of retail services in Australia by late this year or early 2018. Amazon recently released this statement, “Amazon Web Services launched an Australian region in 2012, we launched a Kindle Store on Amazon.com.au in 2013, and we now have almost 1,000 employees in the country. The next step is to bring a retail offering to Australia, and we are making those plans now. We are excited to bring thousands of new jobs to Australia, millions of dollars in additional investment, and to empower small Australian businesses through Amazon Marketplace. We are optimistic that by focusing on the things we believe customers value most – low prices, vast selection, and fast delivery – over time we’ll earn the business of Australian customers.”

Here are some facts and figures that B2BGateway has uncovered regarding Amazon offering full retail services in the Australian Marketplace

·         Amazon, the US headquartered online retail giant is actively looking for a warehouse to become a fulfillment centre, the first of many in Australia, with floor space of up to 93,000 square metres.

·         Based on its track record in other countries, Amazon will spend hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few years to establish its services in Australia.

·         56% of Australian adults told Nielsen in February they will buy from Amazon when it lands.

·         In Australia, Amazon is already selling entertainment, including ebooks and Amazon Prime streaming of television series and movies. The next stage is local ordering and local delivery of goods from and within Australia.

·         The initial focus for Australia will be consumer and home electronics — the market currently dominated by JB Hi-Fi and Harvey Norman — the type of goods which can be held without spoilage and can easily be shifted to a consumer in a box.

·         First, and most obviously, Amazon is going to take a gigantic bite out of local retail revenues. One analyst briefed by Amazon’s management team last year told news.com.au that Australia’s high prices were the main reason for its entry into this country.

·         The combination of lower prices and the attraction of Amazon’s efficient delivery model already sees Australians spend about $1 billion a year at Amazon. But that figure is expected to quadruple over the next five years as Amazon grows its local presence and cheaper delivery costs. Those $3bn in additional sales have to come at the cost of existing retailers and as the expected September launch date for Amazon’s local delivery approaches, every major retailer in the country is, as we speak, preparing to lose market share while talking tough in the local media.

As an EDI provider, B2BGateway has been helping Amazon vendors automate their supply chain processes for many years. B2BGateway supports Amazon vendors in all categories including Amazon Vendor Central, Amazon Seller Central and a variety of country specific sites. If you would like to know more on how B2BGateway can help your organization be ready for the Amazon revolution in Australia please email Sales@B2BGateway.Net or call +61 28003 7584

3 Key Takeaways from SuiteWorld17

As you may be aware, NetSuite’s annual conference SuiteWorld took place last week in Las Vegas, NV. There was a new look and feel to this year’s conference with the new Oracle branding on all signage and Jim McGeever replaced Zach Nelson to deliver the main keynote address. It was during this keynote that Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle, confirmed that oracle would continue to run NetSuite as a global business unit within Oracle and would help the world’s number 1 cloud based ERP system to grow and dominate its market share.

From Jim McGeever’s opening address to the NetSuite partners on Monday April 24^th, here are my 3 key takeaways:

1.       NetSuite is Going Global 

With the help and support of Oracle, NetSuite is going to put a huge push on growing and dominating the worldwide Cloud ERP marketplace. This year NetSuite has plans to expand into 30 more countries including Germany, the Benelux countries and Scandinavia to name a few.

2.       NetSuite is now a complete Unified Suite

With the introduction of SuitePeople, NetSuite adds HCM to its existing portfolio of ERP, CRM, eCommerce (SuiteCommerce) and Omni-Channel solutions. Adding a HCM solution now gives NetSuite a complete suite of business software solutions to all organizations.

3.       SuiteSuccess

SuiteSuccess was the big buzzword at SuiteWorld17. According to NetSuite ‘SuiteSuccess is the culmination of a multi-year transformation effort to combine the NetSuite unified suite, 20 years of industry leading practices, a new customer engagement model and business optimization methods into a unified, industry cloud solution. SuiteSuccess is engineered to solve unique industry challenges that historically have limited a company’s ability to grow, scale and adapt to change.’ Also, according to NetSuite, following the best business practices of SuiteSuccess, new customer implementations should go live within the first 100 days.

B2BGateway, a Built for NetSuite solution, has been NetSuite’s EDI partner for over 15 years and provides cloud based, fully integrated EDI solutions to NetSuite users across the globe. If you would like to know more on how B2BGateway’s EDI for NetSuite solutions can help your organization please join our free webinar on May 10^th, 2017 at 1pm EST. Details and registration here http://bit.ly/2qtx2Lh

Kitchen Food Company

See how B2BGateway.Net helped Kitchen Foood Company to fully integrate EDI with their new NetSuite ERP system for seamless communications with customers such as Coles, General Mills and Woolworths Supermarkets https://goo.gl/91zsqY

MYOB appoints JCurve Solutions to sell and implement MYOB Advanced ERP in Australia.

Sydney's JCurve Solutions has partnered with MYOB to sell, implement and support the Australian accounting software vendor's MYOB Advanced cloud ERP software for large businesses.

MYOB Advanced offers clients control over inventory, sales, distribution, CRM, finance and payroll.

JCurve chief executive Stephen Canning said Advanced would offer new opportunities for tailored customer solutions.

"With Advanced we now feel JCS is better placed to provide customers with a choice of their preferred cloud ERP platform to best suit their specific business requirements," he said.

Carolyn Luey, MYOB's general manager of enterprise solutions, added: "MYOB is delighted to have JCurve Solutions working with us to distribute MYOB Advanced. JCurve Solutions is one of the most experienced implementers of cloud ERP solutions in the market today and will make a valuable addition to MYOB's network of local business partners in the mid-market."

JCurve is also a 5-star NetSuite solution provider and has implemented 550 ERP solutions across Australian businesses.

B2BGateway, which has partnerships with both MYOB and JCurve Solutions to deliver cloud based, fully integrated EDI solutions to their clients, is delighted with this latest announcement. According to Dante Dell’Agnese, Director of Sales APAC at B2BGateway, “Up to now B2BGateway has been supporting both MYOB and JCurve Solutions over different channels and ERP solutions, now with this agreement between MYOB and JCurve we will be able to support the end users EDI needs all from the one ERP platform.”

You can learn more about EDI and how it can improve the MYOB Advanced users supply chain processes here B2BGateway EDI for MYOB Advanced.

Want to improve your Amazon Operations?

B2BGateway, a global EDI solution provider, and Lean Channel Management, an organization of Amazon alumni, announced today a partnership that will deliver top sales potential and greater supply chain efficiencies to vendors who trade on the Amazon Marketplaces.

Representing organizations in the Automotive, Beauty, Electronics, Home, Kitchen, Outdoors, Pets, Sports, and Tools verticals B2BGateway and Lean Channel Management will combine solutions to help vendors achieve accelerated sales growth through world class marketing, business analytics and integrated EDI solutions.

Lean Channel Management will use their Amazon expertize to provide clients with pricing strategies, online catalog optimization, forecasting, merchandising and shipment management, while B2BGateway will optimize the clients exchange of business documentation (PO’s, Purchase Order Acknowledgments, Invoices, Shipping Notices, Routing Requests, etc.) with Amazon through cloud based EDI technology.

"B2BGateway is proud to partner with Lean Channel Management”, states Roger Leyden, Director of Global Business Development at B2BGateway, “Amazon has become one of our fastest growing Trading Partner relationships and we have many clients selling through a host of Amazon divisions and country specific marketplaces including Amazon Vendor Central and Amazon Seller Central. We are very excited to team up with leading Amazon experts Lean Channel Management who will be able to advise our mutual clients on best business practice and how to dominate their relevant channels on the Amazon Marketplaces they subscribe to.”

"Lean Channel Management is excited to partner with B2BGateway in order to provide a comprehensive vendor service offering that will now include B2B's stellar supply chain management,” added David McLean, Senior Partner at Lean Channel Management. “We find that vendors and sellers often struggle to adapt as Amazon pushes them to rapidly change the way they do business. It's refreshing to have found an EDI provider that understands these challenges and can help vendors and sellers improve their supply chain at the pace of Amazon.”

Chargebacks is an ugly 11 letter word

Join B2BGateway and DSI on February 16^th for a webinar to learn how your organization can be better prepared to avoid the dreaded chargeback!

In the 1970’s there was a huge rise in the large retail chain marketplace. Retailers like Walmart, Target, Best Buy and others recognized that their future success would depend largely on moving large volumes of inventory through their supply chains with maximum efficiency. So, these box-store groups began to invest heavily in automated warehouse and sophisticated systems that allowed the product flow from supplier to store to consumer with minimal human intervention.

When a non-compliant shipment comes in from a supplier, let’s say boxes with labels that cannot be scanned correctly, it becomes an exception that requires the manual intervention of the retailers staff and naturally added cost to the retailer to sort out.

Chargebacks became the retailers answer to controlling these exceptions and keeping their supply chains running as efficiently and smoothly as possible. When a supplier does not meet the terms of a retailer’s contract and the correct procedures are not followed, retailers can issue a charge back to cover the cost of the inefficiencies caused by an out-of-compliance-shipment. These chargebacks can be as much as 15% to 20% of an invoice.

To learn how you can put best business practice in place and avoid costly chargebacks which could be detrimental to your business join B2BGateway and DSI for a webinar on February 16^th at 1pm EST. Full details and registration here

Combining Retail Software and EDI to Reduce Errors and Increase Efficiencies (Webinar March 7th).

B2BGateway and Brightpearl have partnered to give online retailers and distributors a cutting edge in today’s modern world of omni-channel commerce. Combining B2BGateway’s award winning, cloud based EDI technology with Brightpearl’s class leading retail management software suite benefits the end user by:

§  Eliminating the need to re-key data which in turn reduces errors and cuts down on labor costs associated with manual data entry.

§  Can handle all international EDI file standards including X12, EDIFACT, Eancom, Tradacoms, PEPPOL, oioUBL, etc.

§  EDI is widely used in Box Store Retail (Tesco, Walmart, Boots, etc.), the Online Marketplaces (Amazon, Jet.com), Logistics, Government and Finance.

§  Can handle all communication protocols required VAN, AS2, FTP, sFTP, etc.

§  Compliant with all trading partner requirements and regulations

§  Full integration to Third Party Logistics Provider (3PL)

§  Supports Drop Shippers

§  GS1-128 Label and Packing Slip capabilities

To highlight the benefits of the combined solutions, B2BGateway and Brightpearl will co-host a webinar on Tuesday, March 7^th at 5pm GMT (9am PST). For further details and to register to attend please visit http://bit.ly/2kWbM0t

B2BGateway to be Gold Sponsor at Acumatica Summit

B2BGateway, a leading global EDI solution provider and Acumatica certified partner, announced today that it will be a gold sponsor of Acumatica Summit 2017 which takes place January 29 – February 03, 2017 in San Diego, CA.

The Acumatica Summit is the premier invitation-only event where the entire Acumatica partner and customer ecosystem gathers to hear the latest about Acumatica’s products and solutions, get product certifications, and collaborate on accelerating success in the cloud.

EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) has become best business practice in the transfer of standard electronic business documents such as Purchase Orders, Invoices, Advanced Shipping Notices (ASNs), Inventory updates etc., between trading partners and is highly popular in market verticals such as Wholesale Distribution, Retail, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Automotive and Finance.

By integrating with B2BGateway’s cloud based EDI solution the Acumatica user can be compliant in all internationally recognized EDI standards and communication protocols such as ANSI X12, EDIFACT, Tradacoms, oioUBL, PEPPOL, VAN, AS2, etc. Full integration also removes the need for the Acumatica user to re-key data when exchanging electronic business documents with trading partners, leading to greater accuracy, increased labor efficiencies and expediting the order-to-payment cash cycle with customers.

At this year’s Acumatica Summit, B2BGateway will also demonstrate how they are part of Acumatica’s ‘Modern Distribution Solution’ – a grouping together of Acumatica’s leading add-on WD partners to give customers in Wholesale Distribution verticals a cutting edge in dominating their fields. By combining the strengths of B2BGateway (EDI), Kensium (eCommerce), Savant (WMS), Aaeon (Mobile Hardware Devices) with Acumatica ERP, the Acumatica client can get a certified one-stop solution that will help them fully automate their solutions, reduce errors and lower ongoing costs.

According to Norman Bentley, Manager of Information Systems at Soundcast, LLC, “Soundcast needed to setup newer technology to be more competitive, we looked at several EDI solutions, and after careful decisions we decided to go with B2BGateway.  B2BGateway EDI runs flawlessly with Acumatica, the implementation was quick and painless, we haven’t had any problems. B2BGateway and Acumatica are our founding stepping stones for success.”

“B2BGateway is excited to be a gold sponsor of Acumatica Summit 2017 in San Diego”, states Roger Leyden, Director of Global Business Development at B2BGateway, “At the Summit we will demonstrate to Acumatica end users and partners how B2BGateway’s cloud based, fully integrated EDI for Acumatica can tighten and improve the Acumatica users supply chain by reducing errors, cutting costs and improving overall efficiencies.”

B2BGateway client Picasso Foods wins Woolworths Food Company Supplier of the Year!

Picasso Foods Australia Pty Ltd. is an Australian food manufacturer of fresh-prepared food. Its products include prepared meals, pizzas, craft breads, pasta sauces, antipasto, chargrills and marinated olives. The company differentiates itself through innovation, new product development and delivering fresh products to supermarkets across Australia. Last month Picasso Foods won the Woolworths Supermarkets Food Company Supplier of the Year!

Woolworths Supermarkets is a large grocery/supermarket chain store in Australia owned by Woolworths Ltd. The Woolworth’s Supplier of the Year program is based on the simple objectives of providing scoring criteria aligned with Woolworth’s key business objectives and scoring suppliers on this. Through their Supplier Partner Program Woolworths is seeking a cycle of continuous improvement to facilitate mutual growth of both the retailer and its suppliers.

Jim Laftsidis, General Manager at Picasso Foods recently wrote, “On Tuesday night we attended the Woolworths Supplier of the Year awards night and are very proud to announce that Picasso Foods was awarded the Woolworths Food Co Supplier of the Year Award!! This award is another crucial step in fulfilling our positioning strategy, but our ongoing relationships with companies such as B2BGateway is at the heart of us having the capability to deliver. We certainly look forward to continuing to build and working with the B2BGateway team, and capturing future opportunities for both our businesses.”

B2BGateway would like to wish Jim and all the team at Picasso Foods a very hearty congratulations and we look forward to supporting their rapid growth for many years to come.

If you would like to know more about how B2BGateway can support and help grow your manufacturing and wholesale distribution business, please visit www.B2BGateway.Net or email Sales@B2BGateway.Net 

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays from all at B2BGateway!

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'Tis The Season To Sell Online!

Did you know that B2BGateway integrates with Magento, Shopify, 3dcart, Bigcommerce, WooCommerce and a host of other eCommerce Online Shopping Platforms?

Do you sell your goods and services on your own in-house shopping cart powered by Magento, Shopify, 3dcart, Bigcommerce, WooCommerce, Volusion or others? Through EDI/API technology and full integration with your Accounting Software / ERP solution (e.g. QuickBooks, Xero, SAP, Sage, NetSuite, Acumatica…….), B2BGateway can help you maximize your eCommerce activities in the following ways:

1.       Pull orders from your eCommerce shopping cart and place them directly into your Accounting Software / ERP solution as Sales Orders. There is no need to re-key data.

2.       Send Inventory Updates to your eCommerce sites so that you never sell out of stock items.

3.       B2BGateway can automatically send new orders from your shopping cart to your 3PL, Warehouse or Drop Ship Vendor.

4.       B2BGateway can help update your site with shipping and tracking information.

Having a fully integrated B2BGateway solution between your online shopping cart and back end ERP/Accounting Software solution means that there is no need to re-key the data – this drastically cuts down on errors, reduces manual labor costs and speeds up your entire process!

B2BGateway’s eCommerce EDI solutions will also help your organization to send orders directly from your eCommerce site to your 3PL (third party logistics provider), warehouse or drop-ship vendor for fulfillment.

To learn more on how B2BGateway’s fully integrated EDI solutions for eCommerce platforms can improve your organization’s supply chain please email our sales team at Sales@B2BGateway.Net

B2BGateway at UK Logistics & Supply Chain Excellence Awards

The B2BGateway and Maclaren team who attended the recent UK Logistics & Supply Chain Excellence Awards in the Park Lane Hilton Hotel in London. B2BGateway was shortlisted as a Finalist in the Technology Awards Category.

B2BGateway to attend Exact Live 2016 in Utrecht

B2BGateway, the leading, global EDI and automated supply chain solution provider will be attending this years Exact Live tradeshow in Utrecht, The Netherlands from November 8-9.

Exact Live 2016 is a two day event which will take place this year in Utrecht. Day one is focused on bringing the eco-system of Exact, its partners and third party add-on providers together to discuss overall solutions and to provide 'one stop' seamless solutions to the end user. Day two opens up the event to Exact clients and prospects who can hear from many great speakers as well as learn about new updates and 3rd party software providers who can enhance the users existing system, depending on their unique requirements.

B2BGateway provides cloud based, fully integrated EDI solutions for Exact Online users which remove the need to re-key data when exchanging standard business documents such as purchase orders, invoices, shipping notices, inventory updates, etc., with trading partners. Roger Leyden, Director of Global Business Development at B2BGateway will be attending Exact Live 2016 in Utrecht. If you would like to meet with Roger during the event, please email Sales@B2BGateway.Net  

The Simple #Hashtag - The 21st Century’s Most Important Communications and PR Tool?

As our team prepares to attend Intuit’s QuickBooks Connect, yet another valuable trade show on the B2BGateway yearly calendar, we get an email from the organizers, Intuit, encouraging our team to use the #qbconnect in all our correspondence and social media postings. As a marketer I am very au fait with the use of hashtags in our messaging, but Intuit’s recent show correspondence got me thinking. What exactly has the simple hashtag symbol # become and how has it influenced modern communications?

The hashtag or sometimes called the pound sign in North America was often used in information technology to highlight a special meaning. In 1970 the pound sign was used to denote immediate address mode in the assembly language of the PDP-11 when placed next to a symbol or a number.

The pound sign then appeared and was used within IRC networks (internet relay chat) to label groups and topics. Channels or topics that are available across an entire IRC network are prefixed with a hash symbol. The use of the pound sign in IRC inspired Chris Messina to propose a similar system to be used on Twitter to tag topics of interest on the microblogging network. He posted the first hashtag on Twitter in 2007:

How do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]?

— Chris Messina, (@factoryjoe), August 23, 2007

It was after a series of forest fires in San Diego in 2007 that the use of the hashtag in Twitter first, and then other social media platforms, became popular. According to Messin

the intention behind the hashtag was to make it easy for users to search for content and find specific updates that are relevant without the technological knowledge to navigate the site. Therefore, the hashtag “was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages. In the world of the Super Information Highway, where all this happens in an internet minute,

that Marketers, communication specialists and organizations with a specific message, needed a tool to be seen, heard or at least somewhat searchable over all the noise created. Hence the simple hashtag has become one of the 21^st centuries most important communication or PR symbols. Simply by pacing the # symbol in place of a word or key phrase, the author can highlight the key points of his or her communication. Likewise the reader can use the # symbol for research and up to date feeds on any particular topic that may be of interest.

On social networking sites such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Google+, etc., hashtags can be inserted anywhere within a sentence, either preceding it, following it as a postscript, or being included as a word within the sentence, example (sorry for shameless plug) – ‘B2BGateway #EDI for QuickBooks’.

The quantity of hashtags used in a post or tweet is just as important as the types of hashtags used. It is currently considered acceptable to tag a post once when contributing to a specific conversation. Two hashtags are considered acceptable when adding a location to the conversation. Three hashtags are seen by some as the ‘absolute maximum’, and any contribution exceeding this risks raising the ire of other users.

So, besides search-ability, what additional benefits does the hashtag offer the 21^st century marketer and PR guru?

·         Improve brand awareness by using hashtags related to service or product.

·         Use trending hashtags where relevant to drive additional traffic to your site.

·         Encourage interaction with customers, prospects and partners.

·         Create a brand hashtag that is unique to your business and use as a signature tag.

·         Unique hashtags are ideal for new campaign or product launches.

B2BGateway to sponsor Intuit QuickBooks QB Connect in San Jose

B2BGateway, a leading global EDI solution provider and Intuit QuickBooks partner, announced today that it will be sponsoring QB Connect which takes place October 24-26 in the San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA.

QB Connect is the annual trade show gathering for Intuit QuickBooks Online customers, accounting professionals, advisors and third party developers. During the event attendees will learn about new developments and functionality to the QuickBooks Online solutions, be able to visit QuickBooks Online add-on partners and listen to guest speakers such as Eva Longoria, Michael Phelps, Malcolm Gladwell and Shaquille O’Neal.

B2BGateway, a QuickBooks Gold Developer, has been providing cloud based, fully integrated EDI solutions to QuickBooks desktop users since 2002 and in recent years has developed a full integrated EDI solution for all QuickBooks Online users. EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) has become best business practice in the transfer of electronic business documents such as Purchase Orders, Invoices, Advanced Shipping Notices (ASNs), Inventory Updates, etc., between trading partners and is highly popular in market verticals such as Wholesale Distribution, Retail, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Automotive and Finance.

By integrating with B2BGateway’s cloud based EDI solution the QuickBooks Online user can be compliant in all internationally recognized EDI standards and communication protocols such ANSI X12, EDIFACT, Tradacoms, PEPPOL, VAN, AS2, etc. The cloud based B2BGateway EDI solution offers full integration to QuickBooks Online which removes the need for the user to re-key data when exchanging electronic business documents, thus leading to greater accuracy, increased labor efficiencies and expediting the ‘order-to-payment’ cash cycle of the QuickBooks Online user with their customers.

The B2BGateway EDI App is the available on the Intuit Apps.com store accruing the highest customer satisfaction rating of all EDI providers.

“B2BGateway is delighted to yet again sponsor Intuit’s QB Connect,” states Louisa Gooding, Director of Sales and Strategic Partnerships at B2BGateway, “At the conference we will demonstrate how B2BGateway’s cloud based, fully integrated QuickBooks Online EDI solution can tighten and improve the end users supply chain by reducing errors, cutting costs and improving overall efficiencies. We will also be co-sponsoring with Webgility the ‘We Will Rock You’ after show party. If you are attending this year’s conference in San Jose, make sure to drop by the B2BGateway booth.”

B2BGateway to sponsor NetSuite SuiteConnect EMEA in London

B2BGateway will be sponsoring SuiteConnect EMEA which takes place on October 11^th in the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel in London.

SuiteConnect EMEA is a NetSuite conference for clients and partners located in the European, Middle East and African regions. The conference promises to give attendees insights from NetSuite’s seventeen years of delivering cloud solutions to over 30,000 organizations globally, learn how to stay current with new trends and findings from Frost & Sullivan and to network with over 800 attendees. Guests will also be able to attend dedicated industry vertical breakout sessions as well as visit the exhibition hall to meet with NetSuite partners and their solutions. The keynote address will be delivered by NetSuite CEO, Zach Nelson, who will speak on how modern global companies are thriving in the cloud economy.

EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) has become best business practice in the transfer of electronic business documents such as Purchase Orders, Invoices, Advanced Shipping Notices (ASNs), Inventory Updates, etc., between trading partners and is highly popular in market verticals such as Wholesale Distribution, Retail, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Automotive and Finance.

By integrating with B2BGateway’s cloud based EDI solution the NetSuite user can be compliant in all internationally recognized EDI standards and communication protocols such as EDIFACT, Eancom, Tradacoms, ANSI X12, oioUBL, PEPPOL, VAN, AS2, etc. The B2BGateway EDI solution is built into the NetSuite dashboard and full integration removes the need for the user to re-key data when exchanging electronic business documents with trading partners, leading to greater accuracy, increased labour efficiencies and expediting the ‘order-to-payment’ cash cycle with customers.

For further information on B2BGateway's cloud based, fully integrated EDI solutions for NetSuite please visit https://www.b2bgateway.net/edi-for-netsuite/

B2BGateway to attend Natural Products Expo East in Baltimore

B2BGateway, the leading global EDI solution provider will be attending the Natural Products Expo East trade fair which takes place in the Baltimore Convention Center from September 22-24, 2016.

Natural Products Expo East is the East Coast’s Largest natural, organic, and healthy products event with over 22,000 attendees and 1,800 exhibitors. Each year Natural Products Expo East draws top retail buyers from independent stores, natural market chains and big box retailers – all with the mission to find the newest and hottest products shaping the future of the healthy living marketplace. Market categories represented at Expo East include natural and specialty food and beverages, supplements, pet, natural living and beauty. New emerging trends include:

·         Foods and beverages with floral ingredients such as hibiscus, elderflower and chamomile.

·         Coffee fruit, the refreshing and flavorful anti-oxidant rich and anti-inflammatory fruit.

·         Snacks using avocado oil, which has always been GMO free and is paleo friendly.

The majority of large scale box store retailers and natural markets chains require all suppliers to become EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) compliant for the exchange of electronic business documents such as Purchase Orders (EDI 850), Purchase Order Acknowledgements (EDI 855), Advance Shipment Notifications (EDI 856) and Invoices (EDI 856). Suppliers can also use the EDI for seamless communication with their 3PL’s for Warehouse Ship Orders (EDI 940) and Warehouse Ship Advice (EDI 945).

By using B2BGateway’s cloud based EDI solutions the supplier can integrate with all relevant parties in their supply chain. Full integration removes the need for the supplier to re-key data when exchanging electronic business documents with trading partners, leading to greater accuracy, increased labor efficiencies and expediting the order-to-payment cash cycle with customers.

If you would like to meet with the B2BGateway team attending this year’s Natural Products Expo East, please email Sales@B2BGateway.Net 

B2BGateway and Maclaren Shortlisted for a UK Supply Chain Excellence Award

B2BGateway, a leading global EDI solution provider and Maclaren, the company which introduced the world's first lightweight aluminum baby stroller over fifty years ago, have been shortlisted for a UK Supply Chain Excellence Award 2016 for developing a mobile EDI Connect App in the Technology Awards Category.

B2BGateway provides cloud based EDI solutions to Maclaren which fully integrate with Maclaren's NetSuite ERP system. The B2BGateway EDI solution allows Maclaren to exchange electronic business documents such as orders, invoices and shipping notices, etc., with customers such as Target and Amazon and removes the need for the Maclaren staff to re-key data.

This summer B2BGateway developed a mobile EDI Connect App that lets Maclaren executives check EDI orders from anywhere on their mobile devices, ensuring EDI documents are transmitting properly and that all orders are fulfilled in a timely fashion. Some of Maclaren’s EDI customers include retailers like Bed Bath & Beyond, John Lewis and Saks.The B2BGateway EDI Connect App works with the majority of ERP systems and is available on both iOS and Android platforms to B2BGateway clients.

The winners of the UK Supply Chain Excellence Awards will be announced in London on November 14, 2016. You can see a full list of all the organizations that are shortlisted for this year's awards here.

B2BGateway EDI Application Certified By Acumatica

B2BGateway's cloud based, fully integrated EDI solution is now an Acumatica Certified and Customer Validated Application. You can read the full press release here http://bit.ly/2crSRns