Using Excel to Simplify Business Network Enablement: Leveraging the EIDX Excel Workgroup Results to automate with SMB partners
Bryan Larkin Industry Marketing GXS June 5, 2012 Getting Started
®
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 2 June 5, 2012 Overview
. OAG as a basis for B2B . The business challenge of SMB . Impact of SMB during the last 10 years . The benefits of maturity . Trading Grid for Excel®
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 3 June 5, 2012 The Big Question
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 5 June 5, 2012 Standards Complexity OEM Supply and Demand Scenario
Reseller Small Retailer Distributor Large Retailer Automotive
Demand Chain OEM
Supply Chain XML SAP IDoc
Raw Materials Design House EMS/ODM Logistics Financial
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 6 June 5, 2012 Long Tail of B2B E-Commerce Standards
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 7 June 5, 2012 Value Chain Dynamics Inventory Outsourcing across the value chain Information
Contract Manufacturers Assembly & (CM, EMS, ODM) Testing Hon Hai, Flextronics, Sanmina-SCI, Selectron, Retailers Celestica, Jabil, Inventec, BenQ, Elcoteq, Wistron Amkor, ASAT, ASE Semiconductor Design Best Buy, Circuit Firms City, Dixons Group, Intel, AMD, TI, Samsung, Wal-Mart, Target Toshiba, ST Micro, Teleca, Cellon, Renasas, Qimonda, NXP, Simcom Freescale, NEC, Micron OEM Foundries Dell, HP, Lenovo, TSMC, UMC, Huawei, Cisco, Chartered, Tower Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, Fabless Semi SonyEricsson
Avago, Nvidia, SanDisk, Qualcomm, Broadcom, LSI Logic, Xilinx, Marvell, Resellers National Semi Ingram Micro, Raw Tech Data Materials Distributors
Silicon, Plastics, Avnet, Arrow, Future Electronics, Bell Micro, TTI Components
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 8 June 5, 2012 Typical Trading Partner Adoption Dynamics Large TPs ramp quickly, but SMBs & less sophisticated partners are challenging
Typical Hub Small, mid-sized and B2B Ramp unsophisticated trading partners Most Are Not ramped
Large & Sophisticated Trading Partners
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 9 June 5, 2012 How Some Solve the Trading Partner “Gap” Manual portals spread from SMB to machine2machine partners
P O RO Typical Hub Small, mid-sized and B2B Ramp unsophisticated T trading partners R Most Are A Not ramped LT A Large & Sophisticated Trading Partners L
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 10 June 5, 2012 What is Most Important in 2009?
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 11 June 5, 2012 Maturity
. Increased maturity means increased benefits . Reduced costs . Increased revenue . Improved cost to serve . Happier customers . Defining Maturity . More trading partners . More message types . Greater accuracy
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 12 June 5, 2012 Supply Chain Impact of B2B Optimal B2B Maturity Curve
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 13 June 5, 2012 Typical Trading Partner Adoption Dynamics Large TPs ramp quickly, but SMBs & less sophisticated partners are challenging
Typical Hub Small, mid-sized and B2B Ramp unsophisticated trading partners Most Are Not ramped
Large & Sophisticated Trading Partners
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 16 June 5, 2012 Traditional Spreadsheet Automation with E-Mail Inefficient, Error-Prone, Labor Intensive, not secure
Email + Re-keying Template + E-Mail + Integration
Trading Partner You re-key into back- You provide Excel You download and sends Excel office application spreadsheet template; forward template for spreadsheet via Trading Partner sends automated spreadsheet via e-mail. e-mail. processing
Trading Partners change Re-Keying slows the process templates, introducing errors. and introduces errors Templates hard to maintain, require redistribution
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 17 June 5, 2012 GXS Trading Grid for Excel
®
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 18 June 5, 2012 GXS Trading Grid for Excel B2B Service Solution for EXCEL-Based Trading Partners
Creation of Documents within ABC Corporation EXCEL 2007
. Customized Excel Templates . Built-in Validation Rules . Click to login to GXS Trading Grid and Send Centralized B2B Dashboard on Trading Grid Online
. Intelligent document search by trading partner, date, order . On-demand customer support . Real-time alerts and notifications Personalized Experience
. Register online in minutes Leveraging one of the most . No paper contracts widely-used applications to . Flexible payment options . Multiple user roles and privileges ramp your trading partner . Multi-lingual capabilities community. . Configurable User interface
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 19 June 5, 2012 GXS Trading Grid for Excel Process Flow
EXCEL-Based GXS Trading Grid Trading Partner Supplier or Customer System
From within Excel: GXS Trading Grid: Accounting/ERP System:
1. Logs in to GXS Trading 4. Translates from Excel format to 5. Receives Invoice or Purchase Grid trading partner format Order directly into system 2. Creates Invoice or 5. Forwards Invoice or Purchase Order Purchase Order using customized template 3. Sends Invoice or Purchase Order
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 20 June 5, 2012 GXS Trading Grid® for Excel How it Works
Excel User GXS Trading Grid® Your System Excel Template Trading Grid for Excel Template Repository
1. Client creates a new document GXS Shared Message Gateway in Excel using an TG for Excel template that Excel retrieves from (SMG) GXS Trading Grid ® & clicks “Send” OAG 3. OAG Document is received by GXS-SMG, and sent for translation to GXS Trading Grid ® Excel Doc OAG Doc Translation Service
GXS Trading Grid® Translation 5. The translated document is delivered to Send to Service Translate the partner via TGMS Validate GXS via into OAG Document Web format EDI 4. GXS TG Translation Service converts Services from OAG to the partner’s AIF format EDI 2. Document is validated for GXS Trading Grid® Messaging correctness and completeness, translated into OAG format and sent via Service (TGMS) web services to GXS
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 21 June 5, 2012 GXS Trading Grid for Excel
Features
®
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 22 June 5, 2012 Simple Registration and Installation
GXS Trading Grid Simple Registration for Excel Tab . Register online – no paperwork Added to Microsoft to sign Ribbon Bar . Billing through credit card, direct debit, or paper checks
Simple Startup
. Wizard Installation . New tab on Microsoft Excel 2007 Ribbon Bar – “GXS Click “Login” to login to GXS Trading Grid for Excel” Trading Grid for Excel, Register and . Login to download Partner- Download Custom Template specific spreadsheet template
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 23 June 5, 2012 Creating Documents With Customized Spreadsheet Template
1. Select Trading Partner and Document type 2. Complete template 1 - using familiar EXCEL functionality - Built-in business rules ensure clean data 3. Click “Send” to send to Trading Partner 4. Receive Confirmation of 3 Completed Send
2
4
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 24 June 5, 2012 Obtaining Support Self-Help; Online Chat
Support On-Demand
. 24x7 . Phone, email and live chat with Context-Sensitive Help routing to Global Help Desk centers . Multi-lingual, context-sensitive help integrated Centralized Portal
. Dashboard to provide up-to-the minute event notifications Online Assistance . Real-time alerts and notifications . Single source for all operations functions
Intelligent Search
. Search by trading partner Live Chat Option . Search for Order, Invoice, Ship Notice, Remittance Advice, etc. . Search by date or status of order
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 25 June 5, 2012 Configurable, Personalized Experience Trading Grid Online Account Manager
Highly Configurable
. Empower multiple users within your business . Configure user roles and privileges online . Restrict access to functionality for different user classes
Multi-Lingual Capabilities
. English, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese
Personalized Interface
. Configure contents, sequence, and appearance of screen . Personalize Operations Center and Document Manager
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 26 June 5, 2012 Thank You
Using Excel to Enable Business Communities Slide 27 June 5, 2012