Klone Labs laces up with B2BGateway

Klone Lab, owners of Ipath Footwear, and licensee to big name brands like New Balance, recruits the fully-integrated EDI support services of B2BGateway to sell to major retailers like Amazon, DSW, and Zappos.

As a licensee of New Balance Athletic Shoes, Klone Lab is the authorized developer and distributor of all open toed footwear under the New Balance brand. Klone Lab also acquired the skateboard and lifestyle brand Ipath Footwear 16 months ago. So what’s the work environment like for this booming Boston-based company? Business is flourishing at their Boston headquarters and employees are working round-the-clock during peak season at all offices including those in Asia and on the West Coast. However, it is not all work and no play at Klone Lab as the staff sneaks in surf and skate sessions throughout the day, and encourages a family friendly work environment that includes bringing dogs to work and regular home cooked pot lucks. Hmmm wouldn't mind tasting some of those home cooked pot lucks here at B2BGateway!

P.S. Best of luck to everyone running in the Boston Marathon.

Have lunch on us!

B2BGateway will be sponsoring lunch on Monday May 14, 2012 at the CDC Ross Enterprise SIG conference.
This year’s CDC Ross Enterprise SIG User Conference will take place at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, LA, May 14-17, 2012. The Hotel Monteleone is a historical landmark hotel located in the heart of the French Quarter.
The annual CDC Ross Enterprise SIG User Conference offers Ross users a unique opportunity to network with other Ross users, learn best practices through customer presentations, gain insight into the Ross product roadmap, and meet with Ross product experts and third party solution providers.
As well as sponsoring lunch at this years event, B2BGateway will be presenting on the advantages of EDI in the Supply Chain and will have a booth in the main hall.

B2BGateway to attend NetSuite’s SuiteWorld conference in San Francisco, May 14-17 2012.

As in previous years’, B2BGateway’s sales and marketing team will be heading west this May for NetSuite’s annual client and partner convention, SuiteWorld, which takes place in San Francisco, CA from May 14th to 17th.

SuiteWorld is NetSuite's annual conference for customers, users, partners, media and industry analysts. The conference offers breakout sessions, numerous networking opportunities and an expo floor where you can meet NetSuite’s partners and system integrators. B2BGateway will have an exhibition stand on the expo floor where NetSuite users and/or potential NetSuite users can meet our team and learn more about B2BGateway’s cloud based, fully integrated EDI solutions for NetSuite.

B2BGateway has been providing fully integrated EDI solutions to NetSuite users since 2001. B2BGateway’s cloud based EDI solutions can help simplify your organization’s supply chain process by not only connecting with your vendors and suppliers, but also by offering full integration with your 3PL and eCommerce site.

B2BGateway and 3dcart Combine Forces to Provide Clients with the Most Robust, User-Friendly eCommerce Platform on the Market

B2BGateway will partner with 3dcart, a leading eCommerce platform provider, to deliver the most efficient, automated and streamlined eCommerce solutions to organizations who wish to have an online storefront.

B2BGateway, a GS1 Accredited Solution Provider, has been providing award winning, cloud-based EDI and Data Integration solutions worldwide since 1999. In recent years B2BGateway has noticed that many clients have developed eCommerce online stores to complement their existing brick and mortar stores or just as a standalone venture. “As the world of eCommerce continues to expand and grow, more clients are asking B2BGateway to recommend a good eCommerce platform provider, one who could take the pain out of setting up an online storefront and advise on the best, secure payment options,” stated B2BGateway’s Marketing & Sales Director, Louisa Gooding. “B2BGateway has had a good look at the market and decided to partner with 3dcart due to its reputation for innovation, service and simplicity.”

B2BGateway’s EDI and eCommerce solutions automate the flow of orders directly from the clients’ 3dcart site to their Accounting/ERP software package. Outgoing documents such as shipping notices and acknowledgements are mapped and imported direct to the 3dcart system. This removes the need to re-key data, free-up labor resources and ensures accurate data everytime. B2BGateway’s fully-integrated 3dcart solutions can also connect clients to their 3PL’s, manufacturers and distributors.

3dcart is a leading eCommerce software developer whose solutions allow clients to market and sell products online. Thousands of companies worldwide trust 3dcart to build and maintain their successful online stores. Their solutions include all the features necessary to build and edit an online storefront, allowing clients to manage their store over the web, control online and offline payment options, setup real-time shipping options, contact customers, manage inventory, and much, much more.

“B2BGateway is a premier EDI partner and valued addition to 3dcart online services,” said Jimmy Rodriguez, chief technology officer at 3DCart. “We’re proud to have direct integration to B2BGateway from the 3dcart platform for EDI Integration. Best of all, B2BGateway can automate business processes for online merchants currently using Quickbooks, NetSuite, Sage Peachtree, Interprise Suite and others. Our relationship with B2BGateway will benefit both our companies as well as the many merchants currently using ERP and Accounting packages that can now use 3dcart for the online business and gain access to features like Autoship, Daily and Group Deals, Autoresponders, 3dFeedback, Mobile Commerce, Facebook Store and more.”

Feedback Sports Gears up with B2BGateway to Expand Trading Partner Base

Back Country joins the ranks of other major retailers to carry Feedback Sports equipment.

Feedback Sports, maker of premium work stands, versatile bicycle storage and precision measurement tools enlists the help of B2BGateway to add Back Country to their growing list of trading partners. With B2BGateway’s fully-integrated EDI, Feedback Sports is able to trade EDI purchase orders, invoices and inventory inquiries with major retailers such as REI.

B2BGateway seamlessly integrates with Feedback Sports warehouse/3PL, ODW Logistics. B2BGateway extracts Sales Orders from Feedback Sports’ Quickbooks, translates those and creates warehouse shipping orders (940’s) which transmit to ODW. ODW then fulfills the order and sends back an EDI ‘945’ shipping confirmation to B2BGateway, which is again translated and automatically imported into Feedbacks’ Quickbooks as an invoice. The invoice import also ties back to the Sales Order, closing the loop making it hands-free, completely automated and super efficient.

“Feedback Sports has had an excellent working relationship with B2BGateway for four years,” says General Manager, Kent Fuller. “B2BGateway has provided good service and customer support for us. We run QuickBooks enterprise software and recently started communicating order information and ship confirmations with our 3PL warehouse via EDI through B2BGateway. We have been able to automate the creation of customer invoices through exporting the shipping information directly into QuickBooks.”

About Feedback Sports: Based in Golden, Colorado, Feedback Sports was started by avid cyclist and engineer Doug Hudson in 2004 with his development of the Alpine Digital Scale to weigh bicycles.  Eight years later, Feedback Sports has a complete biking accessories line; everything from work stands, apparel, squirt lube to measurement tools and more. For more information, please log on to http://feedbacksports.com or connect with them via www.twitter.com/feedbacksports or www.facebook.com/feedbacksports?ref=ts

About B2BGateway: B2BGateway is a leading global EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) solution provider with offices in North America, Europe, Scandinavia and Australia. B2BGateway is a GS1 Accredited solution provider and offers 24/7 dedicated customer support with each client assigned their own designated Support Engineer. B2BGateway EDI solutions are simple to use, competitively priced, highly effective and can increase profitability by reducing costs associated with manual data entry. Our EDI solutions are flexible and adaptable, catering to any organization from the sole trader to the multinational corporation. For further information, please call +1 (401) 491 9595, log onto www.B2BGateway.Net or connect with us via www.twitter.com/B2BGateway or www.facebook.com/B2BGateway

What is PEPPOL?

B2BGateway has recently been selected by the Irish Government to partner with the National Procurement Service (NPS) and Office of Public Works (OPW) in delivering a pilot e-Invoice project as part of the overall EU PEPPOL project. But what is PEPPOL?

Initiated in 2008, the Pan-European Public Procurement Online (PEPPOL) project has been developing and implementing the technology standards to align business processes for electronic procurement across all governments within Europe, aiming to expand market connectivity and interoperability between eProcurement communities.

PEPPOL enables access to its standards-based IT transport infrastructure through access points, and provides services for eProcurement with standardised electronic document formats (based on UBL and CEN/BII) PEPPOL’s vision is to enable businesses to communicate electronically with any European government institution in the procurement process, increasing efficiencies and reducing costs.

Through agreement on specifications for cross-border procurement processes, the European Commission’s pilot project PEPPOL has contributed to the development of a pan-European, standards-based IT infrastructure. PEPPOL has not replaced, but built upon, the existing strengths of national eProcurement systems by using information and communication technologies to enable them to connect with each other.

PEPPOL does not compete with IT service and solution providers. In fact, IT companies will be the key enablers of PEPPOL's connectivity, offering new, value added services and solutions to their clients.

As an open standardised platform, PEPPOL's infrastructure has been designed to interconnect existing networks and bridge individual eBusiness islands in Europe. PEPPOL increases business opportunities for participants and supports interoperability across borders. It facilitates electronic communication among European companies and government institutions.

For further information on e-Invoicing for suppliers of government/public sector departments please email Sales@B2BGateway.Net or call B2BGateway's EU offices on +353 61 708533 

B2BGateway hits 600lb Gorillas sweet tooth!

600lb Gorillas, manufacturers of all natural, premium frozen desserts, selected B2BGateway as their EDI solutions provider to trade business documents such as purchase orders, invoices and shipping notices to major retailers such as BJs, Costco and Stop & Shop. With ready-to-bake Cookie Dough and ice cream sandwiches so good, 600lb Gorillas pride themselves on blurring the distinction between homemade and store bought, all while using the highest quality, natural ingredients.

CEO and Founder, Paula White, might not allude to where the name 600lb Gorillas came from, but she will elaborate on her experience with B2BGateway’s fully-integrated EDI solution. “Prior to using B2BGateway, I was spending a minimum of 20 hours a week processing invoices, now I literally spend less than 5 minutes,” said White. “In addition, B2BGateway has eliminated errors due to manual data entry, saving our company $1000s each year. An added bonus is our ability to monitor inventory on a day to day basis due to the timely manner in which our invoices are now being processed.”

What started as a business run from her kitchen, White’s delicious treats now grace the freezer section of major retailers nationwide. “Even though we have distribution nationally with some very BIG customers, we are still a small business,” said the CEO. “B2BGateway lets us interact with the BIG guys the way they prefer, via EDI, so they don't have to make any exceptions for us. I would highly recommend B2BGateway. I can't emphasize enough the positive impact B2BGateway and has had on my time, my bookkeeping and ultimately our bottom line!”