Many companies struggle to minimize costs despite market pricing declines. These challenges are often the result of decentralized purchasing decisions. In some cases, global organizations have empowered regional leaders or business-unit leaders to make independent decisions about network providers. Mergers and acquisitions often result in multiple vendors performing similar functions. GXS can work with you to centralize operations, standardize procedures and minimize costs. Our global footprint enables us to consolidate across all of your business operations around the world.

Consolidating your B2B traffic on the GXS network offers a number of advantages:

• A Single Global Network—Even if you only operate in one geographic region, your supplier community is probably distributed globally. GXS has a broader global footprint than any of our peers and is especially strong in the emerging manufacturing hubs throughout China and southeast Asia.
• Lower Internal Costs—Network consolidation reduces the overhead associated with managing multiple vendors. Fewer maps, access points and document types simplify the architecture, making it easier to manage. Consolidation also gives you better visibility across your operations.
• Higher Quality Service—Single-vendor networks are simpler to maintain and manage than distributed, multi-vendor configurations making availability, performance and quality-of-service improvements easier to achieve.
• Global Presence—Connect through the Internet via GXS’s regional access points in Europe, Asia and the Americas. If you prefer a private connection, you can connect directly to the GXS Messaging Exchange using a local point of presence. GXS also has complementary service-delivery capabilities throughout the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.
  

Key Features
The GXS Network Consolidation Solution minimizes the impact to your business processes and trading community.

• Single Global Platform—Provides event-driven processing and consistent functionality worldwide to enable standardization of your processes with trading partners globally and the ability to respond to changing market conditions in real time.
• Internet Protocol Expertise— GXS supports all major networking and communications protocols including AS2, AS3, SFTP, FTPS, FTP/VPN, HTTPS, OFTP.
• All Major Standards and Formats—Exchange documents with your trading partners regardless of format, whether standards-based or proprietary. These include XML (RosettaNet, ebXML), EDI (ANSI x12, EDIFACT, TRADACOMS), Large Enterprise proprietary formats (SAP IDOCS, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics) and Small & Medium-Size Business formats (Microsoft Excel, Intuit QuickBooks, Peachtree accounting systems).
• Large File Transfer—Beyond EDI and structured data, GXS supports large file transfers, such as CAD/CAM, RFID reads, Point-of-Sale and check images, between internal and external users in a secure and reliable manner.
• Technical Support—GXS offers two models for technical support: a single point of contact for all your B2B network needs worldwide or multiple contact points for localized, in-country support. GXS provides services in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
• Migration and Implementation—A GXS program manager collaborates with you to identify document flows, key milestones and change management procedures. GXS manages communications and the migration of your trading partners and provides regular status reports.
• Specialized Pricing and Contracts—Consolidating B2B traffic onto a single network provider enables you to maximize your spend with one vendor. GXS offers aggressive pricing for high transaction volumes and offers several models for community enablement and pricing.