Day: July 26, 2007

On 19 July 2007, OB10 and GXS announced a partnership to build an integrated e-invoicing solution. Few years ago, perhaps this would not have happened. XML was going to rule the world – EDI was dead, they said. Today, the level of market penetration by both EDI and XML combined is still very small. Paper continues to rule the world. Hence the realisation that we all need to work together whilst safe guarding competitiveness at bid level. Take Causeway’s Tradex for an instance; it has the capability to convert paper to/from data as well as XML to/from EDI. Tradex links with…

According to the press release today, OB10 has announced a partnership with Abbey UK Corporate Banking, part of Santander Group. The emphasis is on cash flow benefits and processing cost savings to businesses in the UK, Europe and internationally. According to the press release: The new service, Supplier Payments, is aimed at large corporates, mid-corporates and public sector entities who wish to make their supply chains more competitive by improving working capital management and cutting the costs of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable processing. Nothing new here! According to David Goucher, Managing Director of Abbey UK Corporate Banking ?Supplier Payments…

  OpenCoffee Manchester 5th event was held on past Tuesday at the same venue. Here are some pictures: Attendees Stewart Townsend – Sun Microsystems – Stewart and I are collaborating on number of initiatives Aldo De Leonibus – Director of Inventya. He also brought two of his colleagues Siobhan Clarke – MBA Student from Manchester Business School Khurshid Valli – Halliwells – He is interested in working with start ups as well as those companies who wants to do business in India Paul Rouke – PRWD– Paul may take up office space at Daresbury Innovation Centre A new face who…

Andrew K. Reese and Sarah Murray recently published a comprehensive article on Supply Demand Chain Executive honoring the Supply Chain leaders of 2007. If you are interested in the Supply Chain, I recommend you to read the full article here. As you very well know, Supply Chain continues to have a significant presence within the Board Room environment. CEOs, CFOs and CPOs around the world now have better tools and Knowledge Workers to help them steer towards Supply Chain Excellence, delivering both bottom and top line results, as well as helping those companies who understand the subject well to achieve…