These services enable companies to rapidly establish their electronic trading communities and reach a critical mass of partners. GXS's community enabling program removes connectivity barriers and eliminates data complexities, linking your trading partners throughout your supply chain.

Once you decide to move your business relationships online, an experienced service provider like GXS can build your trading community quickly and effectively.

Whether you and your trading partners are e-commerce capable or new to online transactions, an enabling team from EDI Services will guide everyone through the process-from planning and testing to training.

The enabling team also helps you plan the project. The team will:

• Contact your customers, partners, suppliers and sub-contractors.
• Assess each company's ability to transact business within the trading community.
• Handle connectivity.
• Provide training.
• Follow up so your project stays on time and on target.

Transaction testing
Before your trading community or e-marketplace goes live, GXS tests transaction data to validate accuracy and make sure your partners are ready to trade.

Project tracking
You monitor the project every step of the way. GXS's project tracking system gives you instant online access to communication logs and up-to-date status reports on trading partner enablement. You can check the readiness of any trading partner or run reports on the entire project.

Migration
If your trading relationships are based on EDI standards and you plan to convert to an Internet-based community, consider outsourcing the task to us .

GXS will develop a detailed migration strategy that minimizes the impact of the change on your business processes and those of your trading partners.  Services include project planning, migration, scheduling, online project tracking, connectivity testing, follow up and around-the-clock customer support.

Downtime means lost business opportunities and dissatisfied customers. If you or your trading partners encounter a problem, GXS support is available 24x7. Our experts use advanced tools and procedures to isolate and resolve problems quickly so your trading community can function smoothly.

If a trading community is on your business agenda, you know you can trust your business to GXS. Our skills have been honed in more than 25,000 e-business engagements, starting with our own.

To find out how GXS can help you quick-start a trading community, contact us!