4 December 2009
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IBM marked the one year anniversary of the launch of Smarter Planet.
In November 2008, IBM launched Smarter Planet as a corporate initiative, which declared that information technology can be used to make the world’s systems and industries more efficient and productive.
Is this a new idea? Well, no. Whatever happened to the idea of the paperless society, which has been talked about since the 80s? EDI was one of the solutions to this idea, to push the documents around electronically, but you wonder how many companies have followed through on a 100% implementation of EDI throughout their trading community.
In 1999 Microsoft researcher Bill Hill explained how electronic books can radically transform society by making books available anytime, anywhere. Well that took more than a few years to really take off, but we seem to be getting somewhere now. Although that being said
I think I’ll stick to books, as I spend enough time looking at screens.
So while we all try to work smarter, just remember it all takes time.
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30 November 2009
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UK October 2009 – the UK JDE user group help a conference at Twickenham Stadium with around 300 delegates attending.
Oracle, who inherited JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and World from their aquisition if PeopleSoft in 2005, has “once again declared that customers’ investments in its i-centric JD Edwards ERP solutions will be safe for years to come.”
There are no clear figures on how many JDE customers there are in the UK, but Oracle will say “that that around 40% of its cross-platform EnterpriseOne users are running on the Power i and as JD Edwards World is i-only”
It was only a few weeks ago that I mentioned JDE in my blog Are you changing your ERP system and wondering how to continue doing EDI?
In my blog I mentioned that many TrustedLink iSeries (TLi) customers may not know that we can provide JDE Templates to help you to easily start doing EDI with this widely used ERP system. These EDI templates are provided for both JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and World.
oh and if you are wondering about the picture, Keeping the Faith is a 2000 film staring Ben Stiller and Edward Norton. It’s a nice romcom; an easy film to watch and enjoy.
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25 November 2009
Did you see the news item about Tesco accidentally “paying almost £1 million for six bikes which should have cost less than £1000.”
In this day and age mistakes like this should not be made, and I refer back to my blog earlier this month, and the quote from the GS1 UK’s ‘Data Crunch’ report, which “estimates that UK grocery retailers and suppliers can realise savings of at least £1 billion over the next five years as data inconsistencies are ironed out across the industry and pass the benefits to consumers through better informed choices and improved shopper experience.”
Perhaps EDI is not enough and UK retailers should move towards Global Data Synchronisation in the same way that the US retailers have already done. GS1 are a great source of information for this.
“Data synchronisation is simply a process that enables the seamless flow of product information through the supply chain. It ensures that suppliers and retailers use the same product information at all times.” This includes pricing and could have prevented Tesco from the embrassing headline.
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24 November 2009
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How reliant is your Company on EDI?
Many companies now rely on EDI more than ever, not only for Orders and Invoices, but for Shipping Notices (ASNs), cost pricing information and catalogue information, to name a few.
Large Retailers, including Sainsbury are pushing Suppliers to provide more information electronically and are actively rolling programs out to their Suppliers to ensure that the are compliant with these documents.
But how many Companies are out there running unsupported version of EDI software on unsupported versions of Operating Systems (OS) and have no idea as to the value that these systems bring, until they fail.
When they fail, you could be faced with charges, for undelivered or incorrect Orders and Delivery, unpaid Invoices and you could even be dropped as a Supplier.
ACT NOW
Talk to your hardware supplier to ensure that your OS is current and supported. IBM have the details of OS/400 releases on their website.
Talk to you EDI supplier to ensure that you are on a supported version of software. Inovis provides information on TrustedLink and Biz software on the Customer Portal.
Ensure you are running a regular purge on your EDI system. Gwyn Madsen gave some good advice on TrustedLink iSeries (TLi) purging in her blog last month
Whatever you do, do something, as you don’t want it to all end in tears.
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20 November 2009
Forecasters say that winds in excess of 80mph, that’s strong enough to cause damage including bringing down trees and branches, are expected to intensify this weekend as the storm sweeps across the UK
So when I am getting up in the morning I am glad that I have just bought myself a new winter coat from Regatta to keep me warm and dry.
I am up most mornings at 6am to walk my dogs, 5 year old Collie/Spaniel crosses. We walk for 3 miles up on Yateley Common on a week day, more at the weekends. It’s not the wet I mind so much, as the wind, but the dogs don’t mind.
Well all of this reminded me of a conversation I had with Gwyn Madsen, Senior Manager of Tech Support , about case studies we had for TrustedLink iSeries customers and what a great way this is to help other customers out there know how they can leverage their EDI products to ride out the business storms that many customers are facing at the moment.
By using your EDI system to its full potential, you can increase accuracy and decrease costs and time in the way most documents are handled throughout the Supply Chain. Types of documents, communications and your different suppliers and customers (large or small) shouldn’t stop you doing EDI. There is always a solution out there for all eventualities. Just as your EDI provider what your EDI software can do for you.
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