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The following webinars are presented by GXS product, solution and industry experts. Check back often for our latest webinar recordings.

Company

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The New GXS: Update on Product and Cloud Strategies for 2011 — Show DescriptionHide Description
GXS is now the world’s largest network of integrated business communities. But our focus is not on being the largest. Our focus is our ongoing commitment to enabling our customers’ successes by delivering world-class products and services.

Over the past several months, we’ve had some exciting growth and expansions. Join Bobby Patrick, SVP Marketing & CMO, and Steve Cochran, VP Global Product Management for a detailed discussion covering these accomplishments, as well as present to you our 2011 product roadmap and discuss what we’re doing in the Cloud.

B2B Outsourcing

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Towards Business Agility: The Essential Role of B2B Managed Services — Show DescriptionHide Description
A key benefit of B2B managed services has been the ability to reduce the cost and complexity of effectively managing a trading partner community. Today, a new trend is emerging.

Leading organisations in every sector are turning to B2B managed services to drive business agility, lower the barriers to market entry and rapidly respond to new revenue generating opportunities.

This exclusive webinar studies a fast-growing trend in B2B integration. GXS Managed Services expert, Ryan Kraudel, will cover:
- A practical definition of B2B managed services
- The key reasons why companies have made the move to managed services
- How B2B managed services has become an essential element of business agility
- How B2B managed services facilitates the drive towards a demand-driven supply chain
- The benefits and opportunities of an externally managed cloud-based B2B infrastructure
Measuring Your B2B Total Cost of Ownership — Show DescriptionHide Description
Discover how to build your business case for B2B outsourcing to show benefits beyond cost savings.
Maximising Your Return On ERP & B2B Integration — Show DescriptionHide Description
View this webinar to learn from a best practice approach gained from over 165 ERP business-to-business (B2B) integration projects, including:
- How an integrated ERP and B2B environment can enable real-time decisions with end-to-end visibility across your entire trading network
- Creating a ‘firewall’ that ensures only quality external data enters your ERP
- Integrating the latest technologies and on-boarding new trading partners quickly and cost-effectively
- Increasing business efficiency by virtually eliminating data errors
ERP investments are a major cost. If you rely on ERP systems to provide you with business information or are responsible for ERP projects, there is an area, often overlooked, that will give you additional business benefits and greater return on investment. It is B2B integration and applies whether you are consolidating multiple ERP instances or integrating to ERP’s such as SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards or Microsoft Dynamics AX.

To increase your ROI from ERP investments view this webinar and learn how:
- ERP’s benefit from cloud-based B2B integration
- To seamlessly integrate your ERP and B2B platforms
- To ensure that only pre-checked, accurate information enters your ERP
Maximising the Benefit of B2B Integration — Show DescriptionHide Description
SAP represents a major investment that you can’t afford to get wrong – whether you are reliant on SAP to provide you with business information or you are directly responsible for SAP projects. One area often overlooked is the importance of effective integration with B2B trading systems. This is the ERP secret weapon to deliver business benefits and return on investment in your business. This webinar is for business and technical people and will clearly set out the business benefits and technical implications of using managed services for effective B2B integration with your SAP environments.
Divestitures – Managing your B2B Infrastructure— Show DescriptionHide Description
Learn how GXS’ Managed Services offering can help companies manage their B2B infrastructures during and after a divestiture process.
Driving Business Value Through B2B Outsourcing— Show DescriptionHide Description
Learn how companies just like yours are generating significant business and technical value through B2B outsourcing.

B2B Communication Options

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Understanding Your Internet-Based Communication Options — Show DescriptionHide Description
Discover how to decide on the right approach for your company and the variety of service options from GXS, including AS2, to help you implement according to your needs and timetable.
AS2 or FTP: What’s Best for Your Company— Show DescriptionHide Description
Whether you are a supplier that needs to communicate electronically with your customers or you are a customer implementing a B2B program with your suppliers, you are faced with many communications options and decisions.

This webinar discusses the most popular options and provides you with the information you will need to help you to determine the right approach for your company, including:
- AS2 and the FTP Family: What are the options?, How do they work?, How do I choose the best option for my company?
- AS2 Restart: What is AS2 Restart?, Will this new initiative allow high payload message exchanges in an open-standard, vendor neutral approach?
- GXS Trading Grid® connectivity options
AS2—What Are My Implementation Options Webinar— Show DescriptionHide Description
This webinar provides an overview of AS2 implementation challenges and the right approach for your company featuring GXS thought leaders John Radko, Chief Technology Strategist and Bob Heidish, Global Product Manager.
Introduction to EDI— Show DescriptionHide Description
This 30-minute webinar provides an introduction to Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and EDI standards; an overview of the basics of ASC X12 and EDIFACT, the two most common EDI standards in use today; and an explanation of the basic structure of an EDI envelope and how it differs among most commonly used standards.
VAN Consolidation — Show DescriptionHide Description
How many EDI Value-Added Network Service Providers does your organisation currently work with? For many companies, each division, geography or business unit has their own. The result is inefficiency, unnecessary cost as well as reduced supply chain visibility and control. If this sounds like your organisation, the answer is to consolidate by selecting a single global Service Provider you can trust.
OFTP2 – A New Communications Protocol for the Automotive Industry — Show DescriptionHide Description
This on-demand webinar provides an overview of the GXS OFTP2 service and how it will be deployed to companies across the automotive industry. It is presented by Mark Morley, Industry Marketing Director, and Bob Heidish, Global Product Manager.

B2B Community Enablement

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How Tesco Uses the Cloud to Work with Its Suppliers — Show DescriptionHide Description
Tesco, the third largest retailer globally, is leveraging the GXS Cloud to enable improved purchasing practices and as a result has reduced the time to set up and approve new suppliers by 66%.

Join Stuart Blackery, Senior Commercial Manager, Tesco and Nick Parnaby, VP Supply Chain & B2B Community Management, GXS for this joint webinar to hear about Tesco’s experience in standardising global procurement, how Cloud-based community management streamlines business-to-business (B2B) processes and accelerates time to market for companies like Tesco.

This webinar is essential viewing for any company looking for ways to improve supplier, vendor, distributor, partner or customer compliance and information management processes. In this webinar you will:
- Hear how Tesco is using online trading partner community solutions to embrace and extend its Oracle ERP and procure-to-pay systems
- Learn how cloud-based information management solutions are removing costly on-premise implementations
- Discover how your company can get thousands of your suppliers onboarded and transacting in months, regardless of location or B2B expertise
GXS Intelligent Web Forms — Show DescriptionHide Description
During this 30-minute webinar you will learn about the options you have to maximise the efficiency of your supply chain by B2B-enabling your domestic and global small and mid-sized suppliers and customers. Use cases across industries are presented as well as examples from current customers. A demo of two scenarios for using Intelligent Web Forms to send and receive documents is included.
Enable your Excel-Based Trading Partners— Show DescriptionHide Description
Learn how you can exchange critical business documents electronically throughout the world by leveraging Microsoft Excel.
How to Receive Electronic Orders from 100% of Your SMB Customers— Show DescriptionHide Description
If you only receive electronic orders from your largest customers you are missing out on a better return from your B2B investment. It is now both easy and affordable to automate your sales order process with every customer ― even small and medium-sized (SMB) companies.

This 45 minute webinar will review:
- How to address the challenges of implementing your customers rather than suppliers
- The different enablement choices available, including service based options such as webforms and which of them are most likely to increase your overall percentage of implemented B2B trading partners
- Case studies that demonstrate how companies have overcome the challenges and achieved success with their SMB customer base
Three Keys for Automating and Managing Your Supplier Community — Show DescriptionHide Description
By automating and managing your supplier community, you can accelerate payables, reduce your debt, improve cycle times, provide better customer service and more. Watch the demo to see how quickly and easily you can automate your critical B2B processes such as accounts payable, logistics, and payments.
Reduce Risk Through Supplier Compliance— Show DescriptionHide Description
This one-hour session discusses how companies can provide clear guidance to suppliers on social compliance initiatives and reduce supply chain risks using GXS’s Community Intelligence solution powered by RollStream®. View this webinar to learn how you can centralise supplier, manufacturer and factory compliance information; establish metrics and dashboarding to steer your business away from operational, governmental and product-non-compliance risk; manage exceptions and incidents, and execute remediation programs efficiently; and eliminate massive administration costs and time required to execute compliance initiatives.

e-Invoicing

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Ralph Lauren’s e-Invoicing Experience With SME Customers — Show DescriptionHide Description

Ralph Lauren Corporation has successfully overcome the challenge of automating their invoicing and shipping processes with more than 2,000 of their small and medium-sized customers. View this this one-hour session to see how you can make 100% paperless invoicing a reality at your company. Presented by Samantha Cooke, Ralph Lauren EDI manager and a B2B Heroes in the Cloud winner, describes the challenges Ralph Lauren faced, how they overcame the barriers, lessons learned, and results.
How to Build a Believable (But Compelling) e-Invoicing Business Case — Show DescriptionHide Description
The obvious starting point for an e-invoicing business case is the traditional paper process and the number of pieces of paper, envelopes and stamps you remove. You could include the environmental impact but where is the proven financial saving? Plus, there’s efficiency savings with automation of invoices. However you try, if you approach e-invoicing simply by automating your paper process, it won’t give you the really compelling business case you need.

In this webinar Nigel Taylor shares his experience, highlights the opportunities, the pitfalls, and step-by-step show you how way to build a successful business case for e-invoicing.

This webinar will discuss:
- Why it is different for buyers and for sellers
- How to present the process efficiencies, improved visibility, cash management savings and opportunities to be made
- How to calculate your return on investment and total cost of ownership
- Learn how project scope will impact project costs
- The key success and key failure factors to look out for
- What are the implications of doing nothing?
Lost in the hype of e-invoicing. Don’t know where to begin? — Show DescriptionHide Description
View this webinar to be guided through the world of electronic invoicing. Understand why so many companies are initiating e-invoicing projects in 2011, learn how to separate the hype from the reality and come away with a simple checklist of what e-Invoicing could do and should already be doing for your business today.

Nigel Taylor is an expert in Financial Supply Chains and has been helping companies with their strategic direction in this area for more than a decade. He has followed e-invoicing developments closely and works with companies to find the best approach for them individually. In this webinar Nigel will share his experiences, highlight the opportunities and the pitfalls, and talk through the steps to successful e-invoicing.

This webinar is relevant to any company looking to implement e-invoicing, extend existing e-invoicing initiatives, comply with e-invoicing mandates and meet EU compliance requirements.

The webinar will include:
- An overview of e-invoicing (and how to spot the hype)
- The basics of e-invoicing for both buyers and suppliers
- What you need to know about regulatory compliance
- Implementation options
- How to build a business case for your company
AMR 2011 Supply Chain Top 25 Report: Early Predictions— Show DescriptionHide Description
This webinar features Kevin O’Marah (Group Vice President Supply Chain Research, Gartner Research) & Debra Hofman’s (Vice President, Supply Chain Top 25, Gartner Research) views on who they believe will be rising, falling or entering the Top 25 league table as well as lessons learned from the Top 25 supply chain leaders, including the key best practices and the connection between supply chain capabilities and financial performance.
e-Invoicing Outlook — Show DescriptionHide Description
Learn how you can exchange critical business documents electronically throughout the world by leveraging Microsoft Excel.
Understanding VAT Compliance— Show DescriptionHide Description
For businesses that buy or sell goods between different countries, understanding Value-Added Tax (VAT) is critical. During this webinar, Christiaan van der Valk, CEO of TrustWeaver, explains what’s at stake for governments and why that matters for your business, the components of VAT compliance, and your alternatives when transitioning to a 100% e-business.

Thought Leadership

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Top 5 B2B Integration Issues for Manufacturers to Plan for in 2012 — Show DescriptionHide Description
In 2012 manufacturers will continue to face business challenges to remain competitive in a fragile global economy. You will need to know if you have the right B2B tools, how to best manage your B2B infrastructure, and how to realise ROI more quickly. Learn how to address challenges including:
- Globalising operations to lower costs and exploit new markets
- Easier ways to collaborate with customers and suppliers
- Extensive merger and acquisition activity requiring operational restructuring and consolidation of multiple ICT and B2B environments
- Changing consumer demand impacting business production decisions across the manufacturing supply chain
- How Cloud Computing is fundamentally changing how manufacturers work with their suppliers
Mark Morley will present his ideas in this webinar to help you focus on finding the right answers. Mark will:
- Review his Top 5 B2B integration issues for manufacturers in 2012
- Discuss key trends in global manufacturing
- Explain how cloud-based B2B solutions can help manufacturers address their business challenges
Maximise the Benefits of an Advance Ship Notice Implementation — Show DescriptionHide Description
The Advance Ship Notice offers a real return on investment if you take a holistic approach in deploying ASN or warehouse automation initiatives.

View this webinar to learn about the four things that will make your ASN initiatives really successful and your company more efficient:
- Learn the real value behind the ASN for both the supplier and the retailer: improved receiving, distribution capabilities, cost reduction, and accurate auditing
- Explore the cross-functional business process changes to be considered when implementing the Ship Notice or Despatch Advice
- Discover how to design an implementation plan that accommodates a variety of shipping or receiving processes and requirements
- Understand the importance of data quality and why removing manual intervention is key
AMR 2011 Supply Chain Top 25 Report: Early Predictions— Show DescriptionHide Description
This webinar features Kevin O’Marah (Group Vice President Supply Chain Research, Gartner Research) & Debra Hofman’s (Vice President, Supply Chain Top 25, Gartner Research) views on who they believe will be rising, falling or entering the Top 25 league table as well as lessons learned from the Top 25 supply chain leaders, including the key best practices and the connection between supply chain capabilities and financial performance.
Enhancing Customer-Centric Supply Chains— Show DescriptionHide Description
In June of this year SCM World and Martin Christopher, Emeritus Professor of Marketing and Logistics at Cranfield School of Management, conducted a global survey of 819 cross-industry senior executives to gain an understanding of how organisations are exploiting the opportunities for collaborative working through adopting B2B e-commerce solutions. View this webinar, led by Martin Christopher, to hear the results of this very significant survey along with his analysis.
Importance of Supply Chain Collaboration in the New Normal— Show DescriptionHide Description
The agility required for the New Normal economy demands new types of collaborative relationships between buyers and suppliers. This session discusses how partner collaboration, information exchange and business process design can form the building blocks for extended visibility and set companies on road to building a best-in-class supply chain organisation. Featuring Pres Reuben Slone—OfficeMax, Steve Keifer—GXS and Douglas Kent—Supply Chain Council.
Invest in B2B to Increase Revenue — Show DescriptionHide Description
Learn more about the benefits realised when using B2B capabilities to grow relationships with key retailer accounts.
Top 10 Technology Initiatives in Wholesale Banking — Show DescriptionHide Description
For 2011, TowerGroup predicts that Wholesale Banking will be shaped by an uneven economic recovery, major regulatory changes, client demand for innovation, reputational risk arising from cybercrime and increasingly global competition. In contrast to 2010, TowerGroup expects FSI teams to place more focus on lowering the overall cost of the technology infrastructure supporting Wholesale Banking units. This webinar featuring Susan Feinberg, Senior Research Director, TowerGroup and Patty Hines, Director Financial Services Industry Marketing, GXS, showcases the business challenges and technology projects facing wholesale banking executives in 2011, including the impact of regulatory initiatives, technology platform integration and improving customer service.
Trade Finance — Show DescriptionHide Description
Learn how GXS helps financial institutions to enhance their value propositions to their customers.
Trends in Supply Chain Visibility — Show DescriptionHide Description
Learn how to use supply chain visibility tools to lower costs, find new revenue opportunities and improve collaboration with trading partners worldwide.
Improving Service Parts Visibility: The Bottom Line— Show DescriptionHide Description
During this important 25 minute webinar, we’ll show you how to drive cost and delay from your service parts operation while increasing profitability and customer satisfaction.
Beyond the Basics—Advance Ship Notice Best Practices Webinar—Show DescriptionHide Description
Discover how to understand the real value behind the ASN for both the supplier and the retailer—improved receiving, distribution capabilities, cost reduction, and accurate auditing.
The Green Supply Chain — Show DescriptionHide Description
Advancing Sustainability and Financial Goals in Unison. Learn how being green in the corporate world can translate to reduced waste, increased efficiency and a positive impact on the bottom line.

GXS Products and Solutions

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RollStream®: Acquisition Update & Look Ahead — Show DescriptionHide Description

This one-hour webinar describes how combining the RollStream® solution with GXS Trading Grid® enhances the performance of global business and supply chain operations. Bobby Patrick, Senior VP Marketing & CMO, and Nick Parnaby, VP Supply Chain & B2B Community Management, discuss social supply chains, how the combination of GXS/RollStream brings together information flows and information workers to improve supply chain efficiency, the current availability of the solution and planned enhancements. Case studies of customers currently using the GXS RollStream service are also reviewed.
GXS MFT—Sending Very Large Files to Your Trading Partners — Show DescriptionHide Description
Understand how GXS Managed File Transfer can help your company improve your large or high-volume file transfer process.
Document Copying Features on TGMS — Show DescriptionHide Description
Do you sometimes need to automatically copy multiple people or applications on documents you send or receive via Trading Grid Messaging Service (TGMS)? Would you like to define rules for how documents are to be routed based on the contents of the documents or who the recipient is? This short webinar shows you how to set up distribution lists and rules to automatically send or forward documents within your trading partner community.
Introduction to Trading Grid Online: Get the Most out of Your Portal to TGMS — Show DescriptionHide Description
Powerful, easy to access self-service tools are essential to operating your GXS-powered supply chain with speed and efficiency. During this webinar, Justin Duewel-Zahniser, GXS Global Product Manager, provides an overview of the tools and capabilities available for Trading Grid Messaging Service customers through the Trading Grid Online (TGO) web portal. This web portal provides everything from trading partner setups to daily tracking and alerting, through admin tasks such as password policy management, self-provisioning and creating users and business rules.
Reporting on B2B Transactions with GXS Trading Grid® — Show DescriptionHide Description
Get the most out of your Trading Grid Messaging Service reporting tools on Trading Grid Online. This webinar covers tips for data tracking workflow, personalising report settings and performing common tasks to find and resolve transactional problems efficiently.
SWIFT and Corporate—Partnering to Grow — Show DescriptionHide Description
Discover how this new service creates the world’s largest “B2Bank” business network by establishing interoperability between the largest networks for financial transactions and B2B e-commerce across all continents, giving companies a single way to connect with banks, suppliers and customers. In this webinar, Matt Monaco, SWIFT Head of Corporate Sales in North America, and Mark Mixter, GXS Senior Global Product Manager for Financial Services discuss what this means for you and your company and address questions about corporates’ adoption of SWIFT, it’s value proposition, and how you can take advantage of SWIFT in your organisation.
Trading Partner Analytics Service — Show DescriptionHide Description
GXS, working with Microsoft, is using cloud computing-based technology to deliver a valuable new service for Trading Grid Messaging Service customers. Preview the new GXS Trading Partner Analytics Service which can deliver the business signals you need to improve your company’s performance.

B2B Past, Present and Future

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Part 1 — Dot Com Era — Show DescriptionHide Description
Chronicles Year 2000 compliance, Dot Com Boom and the rise of the B2B e-Marketplaces.
Part 2 — Supply Chain Evolution — Show DescriptionHide Description
Explores the new approaches in the supply chain such as production outsourcing, collaborative demand planning and late-stage configuration
Part 3 — B2B e-Commerce Standards — Show DescriptionHide Description
Explains the proliferation of XML standards, EDI’s csntinued utilisation and the growth of RFID.
Part 4 — Good Clouds and Bad Clouds — Show DescriptionHide Description
Google, Amazon.com and the rise of cloud computing. Also explores green supply chain.
Part 5 — Web 2.0 — Show DescriptionHide Description
Explores the potential of technologies such as mashups, crowdsourcing and online shopping for supply chain applications.
Part 6 — B2B Networks — Show DescriptionHide Description
Describes the rise of B2B supplier networks and explores potential benefits of social networks for supply chain efficiencies