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Steve Cochran, the Chief Technology Officer at Inovis, talks about Managed Services.

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I’ve had the opportunity to spend the last 8 days of travel working with industry leaders who are helping improve the way businesses manage logistics processes and address the growing global requirements for their existing B2B implementations. The Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions (VICS) and ASCx12 are actively kicking off the year with a focused agenda and dedicated volunteers are working to drive improvements. Key projects exist in most every national and international standards groups and these initiatives will help improve global business communities. So what is going on that will help change and drive improvements in operations and B2B automation globally?

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Is it green, brown, or nothing but dirt? So, as a follow up to my earlier post “In a VAN down by the river…” I wanted to pose the question to the most important people to service providers—the customers—and get feedback on your implementation experiences with other service providers. I’m curious what the implementation experience is like with other community management providers including VAN, Catalogue, Actionable Intelligence, Webforms Solutions, and Vendor On-Boarding Services. In order to have the healthiest, greenest, fullest lawn possible, you have to nurture it, pull the weeds (which is my least favorite part), add plenty of water and sunlight, and add loads of Miracle Gro. There’s also the option of all those other products that make things flourish for people without green thumbs, much like myself.

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As a vendor, chargebacks are your worse nightmare. You just made it through the busy holiday season, and now you start getting hit with chargebacks from your retailers. Or, maybe your holiday season was not as good as it could have been due to late shipments to retailers. This is a money drain. Sometimes without realizing it, you are throwing money away for problems you could have easily avoided. Without a solid Chargeback Avoidance solution, you may never put an end to this cyclical game.
A Chargeback Avoidance solution helps retail vendors and suppliers reduce the amount of the deductions from their retail customers due to preventable, data-related compliance errors. Keeping up with all of your retailer compliance guides is a manual process and can be a moving target, as some partners make frequent changes to compliance guides.

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