Active Business

Empower Your Data

You have countless amounts of business partner information flowing throughout your supply chain. What if you were able to leverage that data to dramatically enhance your competitive advantage? GXS can turn your company into an “Active Business”—enabling you to strategically leverage the information inside and outside your enterprise.

Gain real-time insights into operational activities, spanning your business partner ecosystems and truly getting inside your customer’s head. Capitalise on the flow of information and access quality data to accelerate value from your ERP investments. Becoming an Active Business empowers business partners to participate in the overall success of their relationships and provides maximum flexibility to respond to new business requirements and capture market share. GXS can help take you to the next level as an Active Business.

"Big 6" Tenets of an Active Business

An Active Business rapidly responds to demand:

  • Quickly adapt to changes in customer needs and behaviours.
  • Respond swiftly to macro-economic disruptions on supply, and changes in the global business environment.
  • Understand the challenges and opportunities presented by two opposing forces: the globalization of supply and localisation of demand.
  • Comprehend global demand and manage tradeoffs in regional preferences.
  • Source from distant geographies while maintaining the ability to anticipate, shape and react to local market demand.

An Active Business services each customer uniquely:

  • Operate a customer-facing supply chain supported by uninterrupted, continuous flow of sales, shipment and payment information between organisations.
  • Send and receive information in any format and via any method preferred by the customer without creating a technology challenge or costly, support burden for the business.

An Active Business manages multiple dimensions of risk:

  • Identify, manage and respond to supply chain exceptions as they happen.
  • Drive performance optimization through operational intelligence (OI) scorecards and dashboards.
  • Effectively communicate and collaborate with trading partners to resolve disputes and continuously improve efficiencies together.
  • Eliminate compliance penalties that may be imposed by a customer or required by local government regulations.

An Active Business proactively engages trading partners:

  • Provide a broad and diverse suite of B2B capabilities making it easy for trading partners to do business with you.
  • Offer capabilities allowing trading partners to actively participate in a multi-enterprise business process, enabling shared benefits, such as opportunities to reduce excess inventories or improve shipping accuracy.
  • Understand the human-to-human requirement within high-performance B2B operations.
  • Provide tools and support to engage and embrace trading partners’ worldwide contacts.

An Active Business links physical and financial supply chains:

  • Invest to achieve an integrated financial supply chain.
  • Improve the liquidity position of your supply chain by linking cash, trade and payments.
  • Retain cash longer, while also enhancing the financial performance and health of your trading partners.

An Active Business minimizes environmental impact:

  • Calculate your entire Greenhouse Gas Footprint.
  • Understand your ability to influence your entire ecosystem to engender sustainable prosperity.