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Webinar: EDI for Xero users in the APAC region

Hello There! The sales team at B2BGateway would like to invite you to our "EDI for Xero" webinar.

During this webinar B2BGateway will take you through a brief explanation of what EDI is and how it fits into today's modern marketplace. We'll speak about Third Party Logistics (3PL), popular Box Stores, Online Retailers and eCommerce Shopping Carts powered by Magento, Shopify, 3dcart, Bicommerce, etc. We'll then jump into popular market verticals and explain how B2BGateway integrates with Xero and cover some aspects of the B2BGateway Client Portal and reporting features. Finally we'll review how much it costs and cover some basic fact finding information about B2BGateway. We'll close it out with a Q&A at the end.

B2BGateway, a GS1 Accredited solution provider, is a leading global EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) provider with offices in North America, Europe and Australia. B2BGateway is an official Xero Add-On, making sure that your organization can meet your trading partners requirements. B2BGateway offers 24/7 customer support with each client assigned a designated setup team.

Title: EDI for Xero Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 Time: 12-1pm Sydney / 10-11am Singapore

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar. Space is limited! Register today! For registration and full details click here or the image below.

B2BGateway's EDI Connect App Brings Maclaren's Customer Communications Into the 21st Century!

Iconic baby stroller company uses newly developed B2BGateway EDI Connect App to manage all customer accounts with backend NetSuite ERP while on the go!

Maclaren, the company which introduced the world’s first lightweight aluminum baby stroller over fifty years ago, has announced that it has implemented B2BGateway’s EDI Connect App to help staff monitor all EDI customer accounts while on the move.

In order to improve supply chain efficiencies, comply with customer requirements and to scale for rapid growth, Maclaren enlisted the help of B2BGateway to integrate EDI with their NetSuite ERP system. Having a fully integrated, cloud based EDI solution allows Maclaren to automate the sending and receiving of standard business documents such as purchase orders, invoices and advanced shipping notifications (ASN) with global customers such as Amazon, Bed Bath & Beyond, John Lewis, Saks and Target to name but a few. Having B2BGateway’s EDI solution fully integrated with Maclaren’s NetSuite system removes the need for the Maclaren staff to manually re-key data; this in turn leads to reduced errors, lower labor costs and faster payments from their customers.

B2BGateway have made further improvements to their solutions offered to all clients by recently introducing the B2BGateway EDI Connect App. The App supports both iOS and Android platforms and is available to download for free on the Apple iTunes and Google Play app stores. While the existing B2BGateway platform allows users to manage their full EDI accounts, clients can now use the B2BGateway EDI Connect App on their Android and Apple devices to oversee trading partner relationships, daily EDI transactions and contact support 24/7. 

“B2BGateways’s cloud based, fully integrated EDI solution for NetSuite has greatly improved our overall supply chain efficiencies and customer communications,” states James Ramsey ICT Manager at Maclaren,” Now with this new wonderful B2BGateway EDI Connect App, I can catch up on where new trading partner setups stand on my walk into the office, or get a complete overview of all the day’s EDI transactions while watching my son’s soccer game.”

Louisa Gooding, Director of Sales & Strategic Relationships at B2BGateway adds “Our technologies are innovative because they meet the specific needs of business people around the world. Regardless of where they are, our clients will now have full access to all their EDI transactions thru the B2BGateway EDI Connect App. Our goal is to help clients increase productivity, generate greater market share and improve relationships with their customers. By downloading the B2BGateway EDI Connect App the user will now have instantaneous, up to date information regardless of geographical location or time zone.”  

There's an App for that - B2BGateway launches new EDI Connect App

Once users sign up for a B2BGateway EDI account, they can electronically exchange business documents such as purchase orders, invoices, shipping notices, etc., with trading partners without having to re-key any data. B2BGateway's EDI solutions are cloud based and fully integrate with the majority of ERP's as well as Warehouse and Inventory Management systems.

While the existing B2BGateway platform allows businesses to manage their full EDI accounts, clients can now use the B2BGateway EDI Connect app on their Android and Apple devices to oversee trading partner relationships, daily EDI transactions and contact their support engineers 24/7. 

B2BGateway is doing business without barriers, running regardless of geographical location, thanks to Internet connectivity, which allows for monitoring of processes in real time and keeping clients in touch with support engineers 24/7. For over 16 years B2BGateway focused on dynamic solutions in modernizing and transforming business processes. Today we manage the largest community of users in the EDI market, including over 4600 trading partners.

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For further information on B2BGateway's EDI solutions please visit www.B2BGateway.Net or email Sales@B2BGateway.Net

B2BGateway offers organizations complete integration for all their supply chain communication needs.

B2BGateway’s cloud based EDI and automated supply chain solutions offer organizations complete integration with all their trading partners and business tools, regardless of market vertical served. Using B2BGateway’s cloud based EDI and data exchange technologies provides growing organizations with a complete ‘one stop shop’ approach to fulfilling all their communication needs.

B2BGateway offers complete supply chain automation solutions by providing full integration from the customers’ ERP solutions to Online Shopping Carts (Magento, Bigcommerce, 3dcart…), 3PL’s (Third Party Logistics), Online Marketplace (Amazon, Rakuten, Zappos...), Box Store Retailers (Walmart, CVS, Target…), Inventory Software Solutions (ACCTivate, Numbercruncher, Fishbowl), Manufacturers (Apple, Ford, Caterpillar…), Government and Financial Institutions.

To learn more about how B2BGateway’s complete communications solution removes the need for today’s modern organizations to have many, many separate solutions and touch points, please visit www.B2BGateway.Net or email Sales@B2BGateway.Net

Retail giant Target to crack down on suppliers.

Retail giant Target is cracking down on suppliers as part of a multi-billion-dollar overhaul to speed up its supply chain and better compete with rivals including Walmart and Amazon.

The sixth-largest U.S. retailer by sales plans to tighten deadlines for deliveries to its warehouses, hike fines for late deliveries, and could institute penalties of up to $10,000 for inaccuracies in product information, according to a letter sent to suppliers recently.

The new rules and penalties are detailed in a letter sent to suppliers. They will start to take effect on May 30 and will be rolled out over the next 60-90 days. In the letter to suppliers, Target said the goal was to keep products stocked to help eliminate out of stock situations and therefore missed sales. The new rules, detailed in the letter, call for domestic suppliers to give a single-day arrival date for shipments to Target's warehouses. Domestic suppliers constitute the majority of Target's vendor base.

These suppliers will no longer have a "grace period" to ship a few days after the promised date without penalties, the letter says. Suppliers said the current grace period for shipments is two to 12 days depending on product category. Target will also hike fines on late shipments to 5 percent of the order cost, according to the letter, which adds that the retailer is considering "escalating charges of $5,000-$10,000" for suppliers who fail to provide complete and accurate product information.

Household, paper, pet products and center-store grocery suppliers have to comply with the rules in June; health and beauty vendors in July and divisions including apparel, home and electronics in August.

If your organization would like help to meet Target’s new rules and deadlines, please contact B2BGateway today on +1 401 491 9595 or email Sales@B2BGateway.Net

To Move, or Not To Move (Your ERP to the Cloud)........That is the Question!

According to a recent article by Forbes, PwC is predicting that by 2016, investment in SaaS or Cloud Based ERP solutions will more than double to $78 billion while investment in traditional on premise ERP systems will decline over 30% to less than $15 billion. Their recent analysis of Cloud ERP adoption shows that net new license revenues for traditional ERP systems have been declining since 2013 to a level that has already been surpassed by global revenue from cloud-based SaaS ERP solutions.

The report by PwC, Beyond ERP: New technology, New Options also states that Leading Cloud ERP providers including Acumatica, FinancialForce, Intacct, Kenandy, NetSuite, Plex Systems, Workday are all increasingly being integrated into Hybrid ERP and two-tier ERP system architectures as their customers shift gears into new business models. To support new business models, enterprises are integrating cloud-based and legacy ERP applications, creating Hybrid ERP systems that can scale to new customer demands.

PwC is seeing enterprises opt for Cloud-based ERP systems and applications that can scale across human resources, supplier management, e-commerce, customer relationship management, selling, service and many other areas. Hybrid ERP systems are enabling enterprises to make the most of their legacy, on premise ERP systems while scaling their IT strategies to align with and accelerate current and future customer-driven business models. Hybrid ERP systems are especially valuable for manufacturers who rely on diverse sourcing, supply chain, production and service operations as they can unify a company across diverse locations. Multisite ERP support has challenged legacy on premise ERP providers in the past, yet the current generation of Cloud ERP providers are looking to capitalize on this requirement.

Another report by Hitachi Solutions Europe has found that over 31% of organizations have already moved part or all of their ERP solutions to the cloud. Looking at the responses from larger organizations (those with over 500 employees) suggests that it is no longer just smaller organizations taking a Cloud-based approach to ERP. In fact, almost a third of larger organizations surveyed said they have moved all or part of their ERP to the Cloud, or are in the process.

Those who have moved say the main benefits include easier access to information, reduced operating cost and ERP performance. Eighty per cent rated their experience of using cloud-based ERP as excellent or good.

B2BGateway has been providing cloud-based, fully integrated EDI solutions to ERP users across the globe since 1999. For further details on B2BGateway's fully integrated EDI solutions for cloud based ERP systems please visit http://www.b2bgateway.net or email Sales@B2BGateway.Net