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 

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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

Blockchain and its potential benefits to the Supply Chain

What is Blockchain?

According to Wikipedia a blockchain is a distributed database that maintains a continuously-growing list of records called blocks. Each block contains a timestamp and a link to a previous block. The data in a block cannot be altered retrospectively.

The first blockchain was conceptualized by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 and implemented the following year as a core component of the digital currency bitcoin, where it serves as the public ledger for all transactions. Through the use of a peer-to-peer network and a distributed timestamping server, a blockchain database is managed autonomously.

Think of it like this: If the entire blockchain were the history of banking transactions, an individual bank statement would be a single “block” in the chain. Unlike most banking systems, however, there is no single organization that controls these transactions. It can only be updated through consensus of a majority of participants in the system. In short, blockchain is a record-keeping mechanism that makes it easier and safer for businesses to work together over the internet.

Benefits of Blockchain to the Supply Chain

Many commentators agree that blockchain technology has far greater potential than just supporting a digital currency such as bitcoin. The potential for improvements in the Supply Chain are limitless. Imagine a scenario where every time a product changes hands, the transaction could be documented, creating a permanent history of a product, from manufacture to sale. This could dramatically reduce time delays, added costs, and human error that plague transactions today. The benefits for pharmaceutical manufacturers (all stage product lifecycle track and trace) and OEM’s (product recalls), to name just two industries off hand, are enormous.

According to an article by Jon-Amerin Vorabutra the advantages blockchain technology brings to the supply chain community could be listed as follows:

·         Enhanced Transparency. Documenting a product’s journey across the supply chain reveals its true origin and touchpoints, which increases trust and helps eliminate the bias found in today’s opaque supply chains. Manufacturers can also reduce recalls by sharing logs with OEMs and regulators.

·         Greater Scalability. Virtually any number of participants, accessing from any number of touchpoints, is possible.

·         Better Security. A shared, indelible ledger with codified rules could potentially eliminate the audits required by internal systems and processes. 

·         Increased Innovation. Opportunities abound to create new, specialized uses for the technology as a result of the decentralized architecture.