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Top 10 B2B eCommerce benefits

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This content was updated on December 18th, 2023 B2B eCommerce solutions can transform the way that companies do business. As B2B sales increasingly shift from traditional outbound channels to inbound online platforms, businesses must respond in order to meet their customers’ expectations and remain competitive in the marketplace. As well as allowing your customers to […]

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Understanding The Supply Chain Bullwhip Effect

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The bullwhip effect in supply chain management describes how small fluctuations in customer demand can cause increasingly larger variations in orders as they move up the supply chain. Much like the motion of a whip, a small flick at one end becomes a large, amplified movement at the other. As retailers, suppliers, manufacturers, and distributors […]

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The Top 4 Supplier Onboarding Challenges and How to Solve Them

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Supplier onboarding is an important process for any business working with multiple suppliers, but it comes with challenges that grow as your supplier network does. While onboarding a small number of suppliers may be manageable manually, the workload quickly increases as your supplier network grows. Once you are onboarding more than a handful of suppliers, […]

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FSMA 204 Food Traceability Rule: Compliance Date, Requirements, and How EDI Helps

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Note: This blog covers US food industry requirements and therefore only applies to businesses exporting to the United States. When the FDA finalized the Food Traceability Rule, it changed the recordkeeping obligations for a significant portion of the food industry. Anyone who manufactures, processes, packs, or holds goods on the Food Traceability List now have […]

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What are EDI Messages?

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In 2016, of all UK eCommerce sales £274 billion were B2B sales via the exchange of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) messages. What is an EDI Message? An EDI message is essentially a business document that is transmitted electronically between companies using a standardised format that enables the trading partners’ computer systems to communicate with each […]

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