Podcast on Movement of Critical Business Files September 30, 2008
Posted by Meg Sewell in Inovis Solutions, Supply Chain Visibility.Tags: Data Security, email, File transfer, FTP, FTPs, HIPAA, HTTP, Managed File Transfer, Podcast, S-HTTP, SFTP, SOX, Supply Chain Risks, web-based protocols
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Regardless of your industry or the types of data your company sends, your business still needs a method to transfer critical business files within your organization and also to business partners world wide. These days, a majority of companies are using web-based protocols, such as Email, FTP, HTTP, S-HTTP, SFTP, and FTPS for moving files. One downside to these protocols is that they possess limitations that create barriers for organizations to add trading partners, puts their confidential data at risk, and possibly violates privacy and security regulations. Any organization that shares information outside their secure network should be aware of these risks.
Explaining EDI Content Validation September 29, 2008
Posted by Meg Sewell in Actionable Intelligence.Tags: ASN, EDI, EDI content validation, PO
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Today’s post is our second guest article from Craig Dunham of Big Five Sporting Goods. Big thanks goes to Craig for contributing such a wonderful post. If you’re interested in being featured as a guest blogger on the Inovis blog, please e-mail meg.suggs@inovis.com.
Over on the EC-PB.org group on LinkedIn, Scott Gibson asks a good question regarding “EDI CONTENT VALIDATION” – and asks about validating and matching the data on your in-bound documents that are in response to your previously sent outbound documents – like an inbound ASN in response to your outbound PO.
One of the reasons that there is a need for this kind of CONTENT COMPLIANCE is because of all the odd ways of ordering and accepting merchandise or product, based upon your industry and your own corporate policies and concepts. And content compliance is very much different from the SYNTAX compliance – making sure you get this segment or that element – in that it’s the data within those elements that is worked into your systems and your inventories.
Question of the week September 26, 2008
Posted by Meg Sewell in Inovis Solutions.Tags: Customer FAQ, Feature Forum, Inovis Customer Portal, Wiki
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Today’s question of the week is about the new and improved Inovis Customer Portal. We’d like your feedback!
Have you visited the new Customer Portal? If so, what are your thoughts on the new design and new features? Additionally, what are your thoughts on the Wiki, Feature Forum, and Customer FAQ? Finally, what other features would you suggest?
Thanks for helping us to improve our services!
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Join us at NEECOM (Oct 16, Boston) September 25, 2008
Posted by Doug Kern in Events.Tags: Attain Consulting, Blue Rhino, CVS, Jessica Butler, NEECOM
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Join Inovis at the Annual Fall Conference for The New England Electronic Commerce User Group (NEECOM) on October 16. We’ll be at the Doubletree Hotel in Westborough.
I’ve got the privilege of speaking during one of the afternoon sessions, on “Vendor Compliance and Data-Related Errors.” And don’t miss the talk by Jessica Butler, from Attain Consulting, the industry’s expert on how suppliers manage vendor chargebacks.
Check out the agenda for more detail.
There will be case studies by CVS and Blue Rhino on supplier compliance and managing EDI in new business models.
NEECOM is celebrating its 15th birthday, so you might get some cake and candles to go with the EDI discussions.
