120-B2B Challenges and Level of B2B Integration across Asia-Pac [July 2013]

“During the conference, EDIFICE members and companies operating in the Asia-Pacific region such as HP and Infineon shared insights around this theme. EDIFICE provided insight on all its activities around Automatic Data Capture, Distribution Channel Management, Forecasting and Inventory Management and will dive into a hands-on training on enliteB2B which is a flat-design B2B methodology developed by EDIFICE with the objective of lowering the threshold for SME’s to engage in B2B and raise the Partner B2B Integration base of large enterprises.”

The Theme presentations included:

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B2B Challenges and Level of B2B Integration across Asia-Pac by Lindsay Goile, IT Intergration Analyst at Hewlett Packard

This presentation focuses on recent HP B2B Gateway Challenges faced in terms of partner implementation covering several areas and how those challenges have, or are being, overcome

The continued evolution of B2B technologies and impact on your supply chain by James Hatcher, Managing Director at Seeburger

We continue to struggle with how to get SME’s to adopt B2B practices. For many years the excuse of Asian suppliers was the I.T. needed was too “complicated” or too “expensive.”
In this session we will review the breadth and depth of options available to large companies in today’s business world for driving supplier adoption to use B2B.

Behind A Successful B2B Integration by Aradkar Salil, Director at Infineon Technologies

This presentations demonstrates the Ideal setup for B2B (system, biz process, demand process)
• Challenges
• Sustainability
• Supporting pillars

Avago’s Cloud Based B2B Strategy by Arthur Puah, Senior IT Manager at Avago Technologies

This presentation is to share Avago’s B2B program and the strategy adopted to meet our goals and objectives.
I will also discuss the basis for us to adopt this strategy and what we have learnt from our experience on the operational considerations.

EDIFICE Activities and Deliverables walkthrough by Boudewijn Janssen, EDIFICE Chair

The presentation provides a complete overview of the EDIFICE activities within the Task Groups. Each of these groups has a road map which is based on its members requirements.
The presentation also demonstrates where to find the EDIFICE deliverables on the web site.

Workshop: hands-on enliteB2B by Jan Fuchs, EDIFICE, enliteB2B Architect

EDIFICE published earlier this year the enliteB2B V3R0 B2B standard. With enliteB2B, EDIFICE seeks to lower the B2B technological threshold allowing SME’s to participate in B2B networks.

Jan Fuchs is the architect of enliteB2B and he is the first user of the enliteB2B protocol. In this workshop, participants will be exposed to the EDIFICE enliteB2B components published by EDIFICE. We will dive into a utilization example of the enliteB2B Purchase Order. Finally, Jan Fuchs will share the most important lessons learned using enliteB2B during the Godiva project.

B2B Development experiences by Karen Liauw of Vishay Intertechnology

This presentation demonstrates the experiences of B2B developments throughout the Supply Chain making use of different standards and tools.

RosettaNet Asia Update by Manoj Saxena, Chair at RosettaNet Singapore

This presentation provides an update of the RosettaNet Global organization and share the success story of the first global RosettaNet bench marking STAR rating Program

Workshop: SME B2B Capability Assessment by Simon Lai, General Manager at CrimsonLogic eTrade Service

This workshop will describe the method to define B2B Capability level of SME trading partners.

Discussion Forum: EDIFICE for Asia-Pacific: Expectations from the Region moderated by Jane Cheng, GXS