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How GXS Active Community Enhances Community Management Strategies

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This presentation provides a high level overview and introduction to GXS Active Community, a unique collaboration tool for managing the day to day relationships between a company and its supplier community.

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How GXS Active Community Enhances Community Management Strategies

  1. 1. How GXS Active℠ Community Enhances Community Management Strategies
  2. 2. Increasing Pressure to Improve Community Management • No single source of supplier information • Minimal automation of supplier setup & registration • Continuing need to onboard suppliers faster • Reduce supplier onboarding and management costs • Monitor supply chain risk & performance • ERP and Master Data Management Integrity Issues • Legal & Regulatory compliance….. Slide 2 |  © GXS, Inc.
  3. 3. Improved Community Management Will Also Help to…. Increase Supply Chain Resilience Minimise Use of Conflict Minerals Improve CSR Related Compliance Strengthen Regulatory and Legal Compliance Slide 3 |  © GXS, Inc. |  © GXS, Inc.
  4. 4. Introducing GXS Active Community Aligning People and Process with Transactional B2B GXS Active Community is an enterprise community management tool that delivers people and process solutions across your supply chain….. Slide 4 |  © GXS, Inc.
  5. 5. GXS B2B Community Management Automating Both Your Data Network and People Network GXS B2B Community Management GXS Active Community is Part of a Comprehensive Suite of  Community Management Solutions Slide 5 |  © GXS, Inc.
  6. 6. What is GXS Active Community? • GXS Active Community is not Facebook or LinkedIn for business! • GXS Active Community is a highly scalable, cloud based enterprise community management solution • GXS Active Community sits on top of, and enhances, GXS Trading Grid Provides a Centralized  Approach to Supplier  Lifecycle Management  beyond pure transactional based B2B Slide 6 |  © GXS, Inc.
  7. 7. GXS Active Community Improves Human Interaction and Results Your Enterprise Systems Your People B2B Operations Line of Business Automation Validation Visibility & Control Contract Manufacturers  Sourcing & Procurement  Supply Chain Compliance  Corporate Partner Mgmt. Community Information Management Compliance, CSR & Risk Suppliers Unified Communications Relationship & Performance On-boarding & Self-service Distributors Customers Registration Workflow Collaborative Dispute & Issue Management Insurers Financial Institutions Carriers & 3PLs Slide 7 |  © GXS, Inc.
  8. 8. Solutions & Underlying Product Platform Community  Information  Management Community Governance, Risk &  Compliance Community  Performance Optional Add-On SaaS Applications Registration Issue Management B2B Workspaces GXS Active Community (Base Platform) Active Community API Community Profile Directory (Oracle,SAP, SharePoint) etc. Mobile App Community Portal Hub B2B Comms & Project Management Secure Web Forms & Surveys Community Configuration & Permissions Services: Enablement, P&PM, Consulting, Data Cleansing etc. Slide 8 |  © GXS, Inc.
  9. 9. Targeted Towards Buyers and Sellers Buy Side Sell Side Supplier Community Management Customer Community Management • • • • • • • Cost of information management Brand/reputation risk Speed to onboard suppliers Visibility risk Lack of emergency response  mechanisms Revenue lost through slow ramp Legal & regulatory non‐compliance • • • • Time to onboard and integrate with  new customers Lack of productivity when working  with large communities Impact of slow customer  enablement Inefficient and/or de‐centralized  operations, lack of standard reqs etc Slide 9 |  © GXS, Inc. |  © GXS, Inc.
  10. 10. Entertainment & Communications Provider Customer Case Study – GXS Active Community Company Overview Business Issues • In 2010 this company embarked on a 100% paperless program to boost productivity and increase visibility into their supply chain • They work with over 100,000 vendors and relied on phone calls and exchange of emails to try and keep contact information up to date Solution Deployed • This company is one of the world’s leading providers of entertainment, information and communications products and services. It is the largest cable company and third largest telephone provider in the US. Headquartered in Philadelphia, this company has revenues of $63billion and nearly 129,000 global employees. GXS Active Community was deployed to assist with this company’s vendor registration process, which averaged 100 vendors per day • Registration information is now automatically fed into Oracle and regulatory documents are now submitted as part of the enrolment process Business Benefits Obtained • Enables vendors to do self-service information management without providing vendor access to their Oracle system • Significant reductions in vendor management costs and on-boarding time with improved management of compliance related issues Slide 10 |  © GXS, Inc.
  11. 11. Multi-National Retailer Customer Case Study – GXS Active Community Company Overview Business Issues • Struggling to manage day to day mass communications with their thousands of global trading partners • Needed to streamline and automate the on-boarding and registering of new suppliers which had traditionally taken between 30 to 60 days Solution Deployed • This retailer is a UK based multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer. The company has over 530,000 employees and stores across 12 countries with annual revenues of nearly $65billion. They have over 3,100 stores operating across six different types of outlet, from small shops to large super markets. GXS Active Community was deployed to help improve this company’s supplier on-boarding process during the implementation of a new procure to pay system • The company uploaded their existing supplier database to the new platform and GXS’s on-boarding team helped to acquire missing data Business Benefits Obtained • Provided a 50% reduction in supplier on-boarding times and offered a holistic view of all supplier related information • Provides a simple way to send out mass communications as well as obtain full traceability of all supplier related interactions Slide 11 |  © GXS, Inc.
  12. 12. Further Information http://www.gxs.com/products/active_applications/active_community Slide 12 |  © GXS, Inc.
  13. 13. Thank You For Your Participation GXS web sites Phones US: www.gxs.com US: 1 800 334 2255, option 3 EMEA: www.gxs.eu EMEA: +44 (0) 1932 776047 ASPAC: www.gxs.asia.com ASPAC: +852 2884 6088 Brazil: www.gxs.com.br Brazil: +55 11 2123 2300 Slide 13 |  © GXS, Inc.

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