Rapid Response Recovery Group The JWH EDI Services Electronic Commerce Messaging System may be a right for you if you already have an EDI translator, EDI personnel, or do your own mapping and only need EDI VAN communication. The power of our global EDI network is available on your server, your cloud platform or your application.
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Value Added Network - EDI Network

In order to trade electronically with your partners you will require a platform that has the ability to communicate via the many different protocols in existence. The JWH EDI Services Electronic Commerce Messaging System network has this ability built in together with an open and agile framework designed to meet the needs of present and future demands. The JWH EDI Services Electronic Commerce Messaging System network is one of the most reliable and cost-effective networks in the market place today.

Connect and communicate with all your customers and trading partners through the JWH EDI Services Electronic Commerce Messaging System - Connect with trading partners around the world on a single Network-as-a-Service platform, get real-time transaction visibility and eliminate those manual network processes. It is a pay as you need model. It abstracts the system from the business and makes it a simple choice to connect, not an IT project.

Benefits
* Reduce Cost of Operations by automating trading partner relationships and removing manual processes
* Comprehensive end-to-end visibility into every transaction
* Network monitoring service and network availability status
* Flexible pricing structure, so you can budget for as much of the service as you need

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CLOUD and SaaS for Supply Chain

If we are a manufacturing company and looking at the CLOUD, aren't we concerned with the whole “Supply Chain”, not just the EDI element? I took what I have used previously called “Integrated Supplier Management” with a view of basing it on the Cloud. See my attached chart. First a few definitions:

SaaS – "Software-as-a-Service” - consider this as the software that you need. SaaS provides you with the software you need without you needing to write it, install it or manage it. EDI transaction processing has been doing the cloud thing for years, without the fancy name tag. You might know it by its given name "outsource."

I feel the relationship between Cloud Computing and SaaS is more clearly understood within a business context and not a technological one.

SaaS can be thought of as a subset of Cloud Computing. "Cloud" refers to anything involving computation, storage, or applications on the Internet and includes also the hardware and infrastructure to accomplish this. SaaS refers to applications available to be hosted on the Internet; a well-known example is Salesforce.com.

"Software-as-a-Service” is about delivering applications as a service over the Internet in a pay-as-you-go model. There are SaaS leaders across multiple categories of applications, including Oracle),and many more.

"Cloud Computing, on the other hand, is about delivering both applications and infrastructure as a service. Cloud Computing is now generally defined in terms of three layers: application, platform, and infrastructure. SaaS has evolved to become the application layer of Cloud Computing; the platform layer consists of providers such as Force.com, Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine, among others, that deliver a hosted platform and tools to build, run, and manage your applications in their cloud environment; the infrastructure layer consists of providers, including Amazon Web Services, IBM, Opsource, and others, that provide a hosted infrastructure to run and manage any cloud application you develop in a public or private cloud and pay for it based on an elastic pricing model (unlike the traditional managed service providers).

What’s the up side? We do not have to manage anything inside the cloud. By the way, this used to be called “time-share”.

What’s the down side? We cannot “customize” the SaaS service without paying a sizable fee.

Also if we wanted to integrate data across SaaS services, we must build special bridges. Integration of Corporate Services using a SaaS approach can become quite messy.

In this model, an entire business process; and set of IT applications, run in the Cloud.

See the full article on CLOUD and SaaS for Supply Chain

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ec-bp.com The Forum for Supply Chain Integration

ec-bp was established in 2005 as the advocate for lowering the barriers to the adoption of EDI, and our email newsletter has been published every month since that time. Our focus has expanded beyond EDI to encompas the full gamut of supply chain practices and technologies. In addition, our readership has grown to become the largest of any similarly focused publication, and has expanded to include more than 90,000 professionals involved in nearly every aspect of the supply chain.

Today’s supply chain is more than simple transport of EDI documents. The complexity of maintaining compliance with trading partners, managing the ever increasing amount of data, and analyzing that data to drive constant improvement in processes and service take supply chain professionals far beyond the basics of mapping EDI documents. 		BLOGS on EC-BP.COM
Thoughts on Survey on EDI costs
 Remember statistics with it's "Bell Curve"? I looked through our recent Survey on EDI Costs to find the 10% - 20% of the responses that fall at either end of the curve: and are, let's call "unusual". Yes, we found some interesting comments; especially on surveys and on EDI between big customers and small suppliers.
Traditional Versus “WEB” EDI
 Many companies have developed or purchased systems that use the WEB and provide an alternative to “traditional” EDI. Are they really easier for a small company? What is lost? What is gained?
Do We Need VANs?
 With supply chain platforms providing the E to E linkage and Managed File Transfer Services- do VANS still play a role? The pros and cons of VANs, AS2, FTP, Electronic Commerce Communications Providers. We will be evaluating TRANSPORT, not mapping, Web portals, or other services which could be performed by a VAN as well as by other EDI service providers.