A. On average our EDI professionals have 8 years of experience in GXS / Inovis consulting across the organizations’ products, even more experience if time as an employee doing EDI in corporate America is considered. We have consultants that have worked with the product(s) since inception and typically our consultants have at least 2 years experience with a given product(s).

Q. What is the scale of your B2B integration services?

A. The scale of our GXS / Inovis services is from EDI mappers, to EDI spec writers, to EDI business analysts, to full spectrum integration professionals.  Within and across each of these roles we can ramp numbers, experience levels, and combinations of professionals according to project requirements.

Q. What kind of work do you normally do across GXS / Inovis engagements?

A. Approximately 55% EDI mapping / testing / implementation, 10% rapid community on-boarding, 10% EDI upgrades / conversions, 25% specification writing, project management, and program management.

Q. How long have you delivered EDI services to clients where these products are concerned?

A. We have assisted clients with consulting, training, managed services, and placement needs since 1994. A majority of GXS / Inovis services have been delivered direct to client, but also delivered as a services partner while in this program with the two organizations.

Q. Can you come in and troubleshoot problems, review our infrastructure, and make recommendations for improvements?

A. We have done system reviews for many companies over the years. At the direction of the client, some of these were very systematic and others were very problem specific.

Q. What is the history of the two organizations?

A. Existing previously as two separate companies, GXS acquired Inovis in 2010. GXS ( Global Exchange Services ) was formed out of a spin off from GEIS ( General Electric Information Services ). The GXS marquee on-premises software product is Application Integrator added to the solution suite many years ago through the acquisition of RMS and their OmniTrans product. The product has evolved to include the WorkBench and TradeGuide portion of the product.

Inovis, before being acquired by GXS, was formed from several acquisitions, spin-offs, and divestitures involving a number of eCommerce organizations. As Harbinger Corporation the organization began in the EDI industry with such products as TrustedLink Enterprise and TrustedLink Commerce. After acquiring Supply Tech such products as STX Windows, now TrustedLink Windows, and STX Mainframe were added to the portfolio. Harbinger then acquired Premenos Corporation subsequently placing EDI/400, now TrustedLink iSeries, in the portfolio. Harbinger Corporation was then acquired by Peregrine Systems.  With Peregrine came Power.Enterprise! and Power.Commerce!. Inovis was formed when spun off by Peregrine and since acquiried IPNet Solutions which added BizManager and BizConnect to the portfolio.

• AS2 Products Become Drummond Certified
• Success Story: Application Integrator Migration to GXS – Banking and Financial Services
• Success Story: TrustedLink Enterprise Upgrade – Book Distributor

BizManager  – Apparel Manufacturer

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BizManager Mapper training

CLIENT PROFILE
A major producer and marketer of sports apparel. A privately owned company with around $225M in annual revenue. It is a well known brand and uses other apparel brands to manufacture and supply.

• Industry: Branded Apparel Products
• Location: Kansas
• Products: Apparel
• Technical Environment: Hardware(and OS): UNIX, Software(and version): BizManager for EDI

SITUATION

• Company implemented BizManager a few years back and is currently struggling to provide some basic acknowledgment and reporting functionality. In addition, they have a project backlog.
• Company is looking for help to oversee some new transactions to be implemented, however, they must be comfortable with a person who can understand the business requirements as well as implement new requirements the proper/right way to maximize the utilization of software and ROI.
• Client is under pressure to implement a number of requirements due to the constantly changing market situation. Client has engaged a consultant and the EDI team is happy with the consultant, who seems to be good technically, but is unable to provide business solutions and knowledge transfer.

SOLUTION / DELIVERABLES

• Provided a BizManager consultant to oversee mapping, develop standards, and help employees to implement transactions.
• Provide technical help for basic acknowledgment consolidation setup and reporting functionality of BizManager.
• Provide technical and business expertise to point and choose a correct alternative integration solution to Oracle apps.
• Provide help to establish standards and procedures.
• A good, experienced person needed to work with employees to provide the right direction to projects while understanding business requirements and processes.

OUTCOME

• Overview of EDI including the importance and integration to ERP system covered.
• BizManager Mapper training has been provided to cover 850 inbound transactions using Oracle database at client’s last moment request. Also, an outbound 810 was covered.
• A day was spent to setup a new business document definition and map for NEXCOM using a newer set of tables. This has been a big learning curve and opportunity for the employees involved in training.
• Covered basic reporting functionality and demonstrated different ways to get information about technical and business related issues.

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