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.”

A baby stroller manufacturer rolls faster with electronic orders

By Phil Burgert on B2BeCommerce.com

Maclaren, a pioneer in strollers, is using a mobile app to check EDI orders as it also takes orders via its e-commerce site.

Maclaren is a manufacturer known for introducing 50 years ago lightweight, easy-to-use “umbrella” baby strollers made with aviation-grade aluminum. It’s continuing try new things today, including a more flexible means of managing its electronic orders from all sizes of customers.

Maclaren sells to retailers ranging from large corporations like Target Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. to smaller regional store chains and individual “mom-and-pop” stores. While the Targets and Amazons prefer to place most if not all of their orders via electronic data interchange, or EDI, many of the smaller merchants aren’t set up to exchange EDI documents and prefer to order via Maclaren’s e-commerce site, MaclarenBaby.com, which also takes orders from consumers.

In early 2015, Maclaren deployed NetSuite Inc.’s SuiteCommerce software suite, which includes Maclaren’s e-commerce platform and its enterprise resource planning, or ERP, business software applications for managing inventory, customer orders and financial records. As Maclaren receives e-commerce orders from customers across eight countries, it automatically updates data across the SuiteCommerce ERP applications.

But it can be difficult to monitor the flow of EDI orders, checking for transmission problems and ensuring enough inventory is on hand to fulfill the orders. Following the SuiteCommerce deployment, Maclaren worked with B2BGateway to also integrate its EDI orders with the SuiteCommerce ERP system, relieving the manufacturer of manually entering EDI order data into its ERP applications.

This summer, Maclaren took things up another notch by deploying B2BGateways’ EDI Connect App, a mobile app that lets Maclaren executives check EDI orders from anywhere, ensuring EDI documents are transmitting properly and that orders are fulfilled. EDI documents include customer purchase orders and Maclaren’s invoices and ship notices. Maclaren’s EDI customers also include retailers like Bed Bath & Beyond, John Lewis and Saks.

“We have an EDI team and they use the app to work with EDI transactions coming and going,” says James Ramsey, global head of technology for Maclaren, a unit of United Kingdom-based holding company Dory Ventures.

“All of our larger customers prefer to work through EDI so they don’t have to use our B2B e-commerce site and everything can be done through EDI with those customers,” he says. “That’s why we’re working with B2BGateway. They’ve been a great partner in getting EDI set up with all of these big accounts, which takes a lot of the load off our account executives and sales team for everything that comes in and goes back out again.”

Ramsey says considerable volume goes through EDI at Maclaren, and that that having the integration with SuiteCommerce and the mobile app make it far easier to keep it running smoothly. “The misconception with EDI is people think once it is put in place it just runs and everything is good in the world. But it never gets done, there’s always some issue that comes up,” he says.

Louisa Gooding, director of sales and strategic relationships at B2BGateway, says B2BGateway is continuing to add more of Maclaren’s trading partners into its EDI system. “We’re in the process of adding 40 more online trading partner relationships between now and December.”
Gooding described the B2BGateway EDI Connect App as primarily a reporting app. Ramsey, she says, “needs it because he wants to have a quick place to see what’s going on.”

Ramsey says he has been able to use the app to catch up on the status of trading partners while walking into the office or to get complete overviews of a day’s EDI transactions while watching his son’s soccer games.

B2BGateway launched the app last year on iOS platforms and added Android platforms earlier this year.

For further information on the B2BGateway EDI Connect App please visit www.B2BGateway.Net or email Sales@B2BGateway.Net

B2BGateway to sponsor launch of Acumatica 6

B2BGateway, the leading global EDI solution provider and Acumatica partner, will be sponsoring the launch of Acumatica 6 in Boston on September 8^th, 2016.

Acumatica 6 is the latest version of the award winning cloud based Acumatica ERP software suite. During the launch, John Roskill, CEO and Ali Jani, VP Partner Strategy, Product Management & Services at Acumatica will demonstrate to attendees how Acumatica 6 will help increase productivity and accelerate growth with new enhancements like the Universal Outlook Add-In, Dashboard and KPI widgets, greater drill down across generic inquiries, and so much more! There will also be a special guest attendance by Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame pitcher, Bill Lee and a partner expo.

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 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.

According to Eugene Chang, Acumatica user and Head of Logistics at the gamers provider company NZXT, “B2BGateway’s cloud based, fully integrated EDI solution for Acumatica provides the communications, data translation and mapping functionality required by NZXT to comply with all our trading partners’ EDI requirements. Taking into consideration that Acumatica is a relatively new product and the short time frame required for our EDI implementation, B2BGateway did a great job! Within a month we experienced the many benefits of a seamless, fully integrated EDI solution.”

“B2BGateway is excited to be sponsoring the launch of Acumatica 6 in Boston, states Louisa Gooding, Director of Sales & Strategic Relationships at B2BGateway, “At the launch 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. I’m also personally excited to meet with Bill Lee, being originally from the Boston area and huge Red Sox fan, Bill is one of my all-time favorites.”

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