The GXS EDI services enable companies to rapidly establish their electronic trading communities and reach a critical mass of partners. The GXS community enabling program removes connectivity barriers and eliminates data complexities, linking your trading partners throughout your supply chain. Highlights of the community enabling program are:

• Helps simplify trading community enabling and helps speed implementation
• Leverages proven community enabling services and tools
• Tracks projects from end to end
• Facilitates your transition to GXS EDI Services

Today’s on demand world requires a responsive enterprise, one that can work directly with suppliers and customers of all sizes — and respond rapidly and intelligently to change—by doing business electronically. Yet as any company with electronic data interchange (EDI) experience knows, setting up the systems that transform manual processes to speed-of-light electronic communications is only part of a successful program. The key lies in getting trading partners to participate.

GXS can help you become an on demand business by extending the value of your investments in EDI and helping you grow your trading community. We have end-to-end solutions that integrate our traditional EDI Services value-added network (VAN) with our security-rich, affordable Internet-based Business Exchange Services—offering quick and easy ways to get more of your trading partners online and doing business with you electronically. Plus, we can manage the entire process of enabling your trading community.

The GXS community enabling team can start the process by contacting each of your trading partners and determining the appropriate technical solution for their connectivity to your selected EDI Services or Business Exchange Services solution. By providing your trading partners with a single point of contact throughout the enabling process, the team can:

• Get in touch with the trading partners.
• Assess each company’s ability to transact business electronically.
• Suggest connection options and GXS services that meet their unique budget and IT resource requirements.
• Verify that trading partners have what they need — from hardware to software to network services — to link electronically to the solution they choose.
• Offer training and testing to help ensure that each trading partner can log on, send and receive data, and sign off.
• Follow up so the project stays on time and on target.

The team’s persistent, proactive approach includes tracking all activity in a workflow-oriented database that facilitates movement of your trading partners through the enabling
process—scheduling follow-ups and sharing information among the entire team—helping to make the process painless for both you and your partners. You can monitor the project
every step of the way, with around-the-clock access to this project tracking tool.

You may already have EDI in place using other network providers, or via direct connections to your largest trading partners. may be able to handle your electronic transaction requirements more effectively, helping you realize the full potential of your EDI program. If you elect to migrate your document exchange traffic to GXS EDI Services or our Internet-based Business Exchange Services, our enabling program can help reduce the impact to your business processes and to your trading partners. Our program includes the development of a detailed migration strategy that provides project planning, migration scheduling, online project tracking, follow-up and around-the-clock customer support.

To find out how your company can benefit from the community enabling program or to learn more About GXS EDI Services and Business Exchange Services, contact us.