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.

1. How GXS Active℠ Community
Enhances Community
Management Strategies

2. Increasing Pressure to Improve
Community Management
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No single source of supplier information
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Minimal automation of supplier setup & registration
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Continuing need to onboard suppliers faster
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Reduce supplier onboarding and management costs
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Monitor supply chain risk & performance
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ERP and Master Data Management Integrity Issues
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Legal & Regulatory compliance…..
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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
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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…..
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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
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6. What is GXS Active Community?
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GXS Active Community is not
Facebook or LinkedIn for business!
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GXS Active Community is a highly
scalable, cloud based enterprise
community management solution
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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
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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
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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.
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9. Targeted Towards Buyers and Sellers
Buy Side
Sell Side
Supplier Community Management
Customer Community Management
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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
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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
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10. Entertainment & Communications Provider
Customer Case Study – GXS Active Community
Company Overview
Business Issues
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In 2010 this company embarked on a 100% paperless program to
boost productivity and increase visibility into their supply chain
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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
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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
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Registration information is now automatically fed into Oracle and
regulatory documents are now submitted as part of the enrolment
process
Business Benefits Obtained
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Enables vendors to do self-service information management without
providing vendor access to their Oracle system
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Significant reductions in vendor management costs and on-boarding
time with improved management of compliance related issues
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11. Multi-National Retailer
Customer Case Study – GXS Active Community
Company Overview
Business Issues
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Struggling to manage day to day mass communications with their
thousands of global trading partners
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Needed to streamline and automate the on-boarding and registering
of new suppliers which had traditionally taken between 30 to 60 days
Solution Deployed
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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
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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
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Provided a 50% reduction in supplier on-boarding times and offered a
holistic view of all supplier related information
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Provides a simple way to send out mass communications as well as
obtain full traceability of all supplier related interactions
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12. Further Information
http://www.gxs.com/products/active_applications/active_community
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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
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