Universal Music is the UK’s biggest music company and home to artists from Take That and Florence + The Machine to Mumford & Sons and The Rolling Stones.

Universal Music UK will utilise Transalis Managed Services for seamless integration of EDI messages with its Retail Trading Partners. You can visit Universal Music at www.umusic.co.uk/who-we-are

To find out what we do for Universal and how you can benefit from Transalis EDI Managed Services get in touch.

Contact
Adam Swanson, Business Development Manager, Transalis
T    UK 0845 123 3746 Int +44 1978 369 343
M   07500 963 078
E    aswanson@transalis.com
E    info@transalis.com

Cloud adoption continues to grow, with three quarters of IT
professionals surveyed believing their organisation will build a cloud
infrastructure over the next two years, according to the results of IBM’s 2011
Tech Trends report.

The report is based on the input of more than 4,000 IT professionals and
developers across 93 countries and 25 different industries.

This year’s survey examined how businesses are adopting and planning to
use mobile computing, cloud computing, social business and business analytics.
The results offer a glimpse into the future and provide IT professionals with a
clear roadmap of the technologies and platforms that will be in the greatest
demand in the coming year.

This year’s report uncovered a number of key trends in cloud adoption,
including:

Cloud Adoption Will Grow – 75% of respondents believe that over the next two
years their organisations will begin to build cloud infrastructure

Cloud Has a Growing Link to Mobile – 51% of respondents see the adoption of
cloud as part of their organisation’s mobile strategy

Building Cloud Applications Will Outpace Virtualization as the Top Cloud
Activity – 25% of respondents plan to implement cloud computing by developing
new applications vs. 24% for storage and virtualization

Flexibility and Scalability Are Top Motivators for Cloud Adoption – 58% of
respondents cite flexibility and scalability as top motivator for cloud
adoption, followed by reducing operating expenses (45%), efficiency (42%),
reducing capital costs (40%) and redundancy and disaster recovery (35%)

As cloud computing becomes more established in the technical landscape,
it appears that an increasing numbers of organisations are taking advantage of
the cloud, not only to build infrastructure but also to build and deliver new
applications, services and business models, many of which are also tied to
their mobile applications.

“The results are clear. Mobile computing, cloud computing, social
business and business analytics have gone beyond niche status and are now part
of any modern organization’s core IT focus,” said Jim Corgel, general manager
ISV and Developer Relations, IBM. “IT professionals who can develop the skills
needed to work across these technologies will be ready to meet growing business
demand in the coming years.”

The complete IBM 2011 Tech Trends Report and the data gathered as part
of the survey are available at: www.ibm.com/developerworks/techtrendsreport

Contact
Adam Swanson, Business Development Manager
T    UK 0845 123 3746 Int +44 1978 369 343
M   07500 963 078
E    aswanson@transalis.com
E    info@transalis.com

Transalis mobile EDI solutions login anywhere @ www.EDIAnywhere.com

OpenEDI is accessible via mobile devices iPad, iPhone, Smartphones and Tablet PCs. Share data, collaborate with colleagues, work with trading partners, hight street shops, warehouses and 3PL’s - anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

OpenEDI gives your workforce the freedom to work like no other EDI service. They’re free to send, receive and respond to EDI documents from any location. And, with multi-location automated EDI document ERP integration you choose how you and your team want to work with OpenEDI. You even get automated txt messages telling you when EDI documents have arrived – so you can’t miss them!

Transalis has EDI connections into the main 100 retail brands below that sell the full range of retail goods, food, drink & FMCGs for its OpenEDI web-based, integrated and supply chain OpenEDI offerings:

Amazon, Argos, Asda, AS Watson, Booker, Boots, B&Q, Budgens, Clinton Cards, Co-Op, Comet, Costco, Debenhams, Dixons, Focus, Ford Motor Co, General Motors, Gillette, HMV, Harrods, Homebase, House of Fraser, Iceland, IKEA, John Lewis, Kerry Foods, King, Londis, Masterfoods, Makro, Musgrave, Morrisons, Nisa, O2, P&G, Play.com, RHM, Toys R Us, Safeway, Sainsbury, Somerfield, Superdrug, Tetley, Tesco, Travis Perkins, Unilever, Volkswagen, Volvo, Waitrose, Wilkinsons, Wickes, 3M, Babies R Us, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Bloomingdales, Bon Ton, C&S Grocers, Drugstore.com, Footlocker, GAP, Home Depot, Hudson Bay, JC Penny, Kmart, Kroger, Lowes, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Office Depot, Petsmart, Piggly Wiggly, QVC, Rosenthal, Saks, Sears, Staples, Steinmart, Supervalu, Target, Virgin, Wal-Mart, Walt Disney.

Transalis Retail EDI Customers

Transalis has thousands of EDI users that supply the main 100 retail brands above with white goods, electrical appliances, household goods, home & garden, jewellery, clothing, processed foods, fresh, ambient and frozen foods, soft drinks, health drinks, alcoholic beverages & FMCGs for its OpenEDI web-based, integrated and supply chain OpenEDI offerings.

Amazon the global online retailer commends Transalis OpenEDI integration.

Amazon.com., EDI Team “We would be happy to provide a few comments to you on the Transalis OpenEDI™ integration process with Amazon. It was a pleasure to work with your team. The quick response to emails and quick turnaround of documents was greatly appreciated. Amazon expects vendors to be integrated within 4 weeks. Some take much longer than that. The integration for our supplier Underground Toys took just two weeks from start to finish and included AS2 testing which tends to take other vendors much longer. Even with having 2-3 test files per transaction before passing the Amazon validations, the speed at which the requested changes were made, was very commendable. Thank you”.

Contact
Adam Swanson, Business Development Manager
T    UK 0845 123 3746 Int +44 1978 369 343
M   07500 963 078
E    aswanson@transalis.com
E    info@transalis.com

OpenEDI Cloud Managed Services

The main reason businesses switch to cloud-based EDI is to reap the benefits of big business infrastructure, without having to implement and manage EDI directly. Until recently, EDI software and servers almost always resided in the office, where they would be administered by in-house IT staff. This type of deployment is referred to as on premise. In the last several years cloud based EDI has become increasingly popular.

Cloud based EDI (also called cloud EDI) enables companies to access EDI software and servers located in a secure data centre, maintained by the EDI service provider. These subscriber-based services are delivered in real time over the Internet. Visit www.Cloud9EDI.com

1000′s of businesses have found the many attributes of cloud-based OpenEDI very attractive. Here are nine compelling reasons why:

1. Cloud EDI can improve employee productivity. Using Transalis web-based OpenEDI, employees and trading partners can easily access EDI documents in or out of the office. Many businesses have employees working remotely, and need both mobility and flexibility. Cloud EDI is a straightforward and affordable way of addressing those needs, especially when using intuitive, familiar software that employees can easily understand. 

2. Cloud EDI reduces upfront costs. Choosing or migrating to a cloud-based EDI solution reduces the upfront costs associated with implementing EDI. There is no software or servers to buy and maintain. The cloud-based subscription model allows businesses to easily increase or decrease their use of cloud EDI services according to their needs. 

3. Cloud EDI boosts collaboration. Employees and trading partners everywhere can access and work with the same EDI files in real time – no more emails back and forth with attachments to open. Better collaboration improves productivity. 

4. Cloud EDI provides business resiliency.  Studies have shown that more than 50% of businesses will go out of business within a year of a major internal business systems failure, virus or cyber attack and data loss. In a cloud EDI environment, if you lose your laptop – or worse, your whole office – you can get back to business in no time. All your business information and EDI files remain securely in place. 

5. Cloud EDI is easy. The transfer of EDI information into “the cloud” is very straightforward. No need to install new hardware or software; no IT administration. It is seamless to the user. Saving EDI documents to an OpenEDI Cloud9 Drive is the same process as saving it to a hard drive. No training is required. 

6. Cloud EDI is accessible. Offering easy access, file sharing and data integration from any Internet connection, cloud EDI allows employees and trading partners access via any computer, laptop, tablet or smart phone. 

7. Cloud EDI is secure. In fact, cloud EDI can be more secure than traditional EDI infrastructure. Cloud EDI providers like Transalis build multiple levels of security and redundancy into their data centre set ups. 

8. Cloud EDI is global. There’s nothing stopping any organisation rolling out EDI to all their large, small & medium size trading partners for total supply chain EDI enablement.

9. Cloud EDI is EDI Made Easy! Start using or switch to Cloud EDI and you’ll be on “Cloud 9” in no time.

The great thing about cloud EDI is that it’s not an all-or-nothing proposition. Even if you already have servers and an IT staff, you can pick just one application such as EDI that you think would be better served in the cloud. With few exceptions, a mix and match of in-house and cloud-computing software works just great! 

Contact
Adam Swanson, Business Development Manager
T    UK 0845 123 3746 Int +44 1978 369 343
M   07500 963 078
E    aswanson@transalis.com
E    info@transalis.com

Transalis is proud to supply Play.com with OpenEDI Managed Services www.play.openedi.com

Play.com announced on 21^st September it had been acquired by the Japanese company Rakuten, Inc. (JASDAQ: 4755), one of the world’s leading Internet service companies.

Transalis is proud to be the EDI provider to Play.com and to provide its OpenEDI Managed Service offerings to Play.com and to Play.com’s supply chain.

Play.com is one of the UK’s largest online retailers, with 14 million registered users and 7 million listed products. The company sells a wide range of goods, from music and books to electronics, clothing, and accessories. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Jersey, British Isles, the company has grown to employ approximately 500 dedicated staff, who have built Play.com into one of the most satisfying online shopping experiences in the UK*. In 2009, Play.com launched a branded credit card connected to its PlayPoints rewards program. PlayTrade is Play.com’s growing marketplace platform.

*National Consumer Satisfaction Index (http://www.ncsiuk.com/index.php)

Contact us today and find out how we can help you improve EDI with your whole supply chain.

Contact
Adam Swanson, Business Development Manager
T    UK 0845 123 3746 Int +44 1978 369 343
M   +44 (0)7500 963 078
E    aswanson@transalis.com
E    info@transalis.com

Microsoft Ireland Operations extends Transalis European EDI Contract.

The Microsoft development team based in Dublin has extended its vendor services contract with Transalis for EDI enablement of its European trading partners untill the end of 2013.

Transalis currently provides its OpenEDI integration services for Microsoft Ireland Operations Entertainment and Devises Systems group, with a range of Microsoft’s European trading partners including Argos & John Lewis in the UK, Fnac in Belgium and Mediamarkt in Germany.

The Transalis OpenEDI integration services for Microsoft includes:

“Provision of partner integration and electronic message translation services for the Microsoft E&D Systems group. Transalis sits between Microsoft and Microsoft’s trading partners. Transalis receives multiple message formats from Microsoft partners and reformats and translates these messages into the format required by Microsoft. This alleviates the need for Microsoft to build internal solutions”.

http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/

Contact us today and find out more.

Contact
Adam Swanson, Business Development Manager
T    UK 0845 123 3746 Int +44 1978 369 343
M   +44 (0)7500 963 078
E    aswanson@transalis.com
E    info@transalis.com

TRANSALIS, global solution provider for EDI Managed Service Solutions, is rolling out its freeVAN EDI Supply Chain service to retail organisations, to deliver EDI documents with zero VAN traffic costs.

The freeVAN EDI service allows large businesses and organisations (hubs) to securely transmit EDI documents with zero VAN (Value Added Network) traffic costs. The service enables B2B (business-to-business) electronic document exchange between any trading organisations, from the largest retailers to the smallest, independent suppliers.

Further, TRANSALIS has bundled its OpenEDI functionality with the freeVAN service to enable businesses to exchange information electronically, regardless of file formats, size of organisation or technical capabilities. By integrating OpenEDI technology, it allows any business to comply with any other’s EDI requirements. The bundled offering allows hubs to reduce EDI costs and complexity and EDI enable their whole supply chain.

The powerful combination of freeVAN and OpenEDI allows large companies to trade electronically with all suppliers. FreeVAN offers 100% supply chain EDI enablement with considerably reduced costs, higher productivity and optimised processes plus Managed Services for Web, Integrated & Supply Chain EDI and removes outdated EDI translation software for seamless EDI integration with internal systems to maximise existing technology investments.

Contact us today and find out more.

Contact
Adam Swanson, Business Development Manager
T    UK 0845 123 3746 Int +44 1978 369 343
M   +44 (0)7500 963 078
E    aswanson@transalis.com
E    info@transalis.com

Transalis Cloud EDI Solutions

Transalis Cloud OpenEDI is available anywhere @ www.Cloud9EDI.com 

Cloud OpenEDI is accessible via mobile devices iPad, iPhone, Smartphones and Tablet PCs. Share data, collaborate with colleagues, work with trading partners, hight street shops, warehouses and 3PL’s - anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

Cloud OpenEDI gives your workforce the freedom to work like no other EDI service. They’re free to send, receive and respond to EDI documents from any location. And, with multi-location automated EDI document ERP integration you choose how you and your team want to work with OpenEDI. You even get automated txt messages telling you when EDI documents have arrived – so you can’t miss them!

Transalis has Cloud EDI connections into the main 100 retail brands below that sell the full range of retail goods, food, drink & FMCGs for its OpenEDI web-based, integrated and supply chain OpenEDI offerings:

Amazon, Argos, Asda, AS Watson, Booker, Boots, B&Q, Budgens, Clinton Cards, Co-Op, Comet, Costco, Debenhams, Dixons, Focus, Ford Motor Co, General Motors, Gillette, HMV, Harrods, Homebase, House of Fraser, Iceland, IKEA, John Lewis, Kerry Foods, King, Londis, Masterfoods, Makro, Musgrave, Morrisons, Nisa, O2, P&G, Play.com, RHM, Toys R Us, Safeway, Sainsbury, Somerfield, Superdrug, Tetley, Tesco, Travis Perkins, Unilever, Volkswagen, Volvo, Waitrose, Wilkinsons, Wickes, 3M, Babies R Us, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Bloomingdales, Bon Ton, C&S Grocers, Drugstore.com, Footlocker, GAP, Home Depot, Hudson Bay, JC Penny, Kmart, Kroger, Lowes, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Office Depot, Petsmart, Piggly Wiggly, QVC, Rosenthal, Saks, Sears, Staples, Steinmart, Supervalu, Target, Virgin, Wal-Mart, Walt Disney.

Transalis Retail Cloud EDI Customers

Transalis has thousands of EDI users that supply the main 100 retail brands above with white goods, electrical appliances, household goods, home & garden, jewellery, clothing, processed foods, fresh, ambient and frozen foods, soft drinks, health drinks, alcoholic beverages & FMCGs for its OpenEDI web-based, integrated and supply chain OpenEDI offerings.

Contact
Adam Swanson, Business Development Manager
T    UK 0845 123 3746 Int +44 1978 369 343
M   +44 (0)7500 963 078
E    aswanson@transalis.com
E    info@transalis.com

Transalis profits continue to rise on strong cloud EDI sales

Transalis the leading provider of B2B OpenEDI SaaS cloud managed services, has reported a rise in quarterly profits, thanks to strong sales of its range of cloud EDI offerings.

2011 Q2 Interim Statement & Key Ratios

• Sales to end of June 2011 up 35% on Q2 sales for previous year.
• Cost of Sales to end of June 2011 down 54% on Q2 cost of sales for previous year.
• Gross Profit to end of June 2011 was 98% up from 95% for Q2 for previous year.
• Adjusted EBIT to end of June 2011 was 66.9%.
• Adjusted EBITDA to end of June 2011 was 67.3%
• Recurring Revenue to end of June 2011 was 90.69%.
• Onetime Revenue to end of June 2011 was 9.31%.

Transalis said customers had been buying its cloud EDI applications, which allows business critical EDI applications to be accessed securely via remote servers, at an “increasing rate”.

The company said the “strong results were excellent news especially in the current global economic climate and proof that Transalis offerings were what the market wanted”. Transalis Cloud OpenEDI is available anywhere @ www.Cloud9EDI.com

“Customers are purchasing Transalis offerings at an increasing rate, and businesses of all sizes are purchasing Transalis OpenEDI SaaS cloud services and applications,” said Joint Managing Director, Paul Simpson.

The company also said it was seeing strong take-up of its cloud EDI services by a wide range of businesses, large and small, throughout the growing EMEA market place as more businesses realised the potential and considerable advantages of Transalis OpenEDI cloud managed services.

Contact
Adam Swanson, Business Development Manager
T    UK 0845 123 3746 Int +44 1978 369 343
M   07500 963 078
E    aswanson@transalis.com
E    info@transalis.com

OpenEDI Cloud Services

Latest Gartner research confirms “EDI is HOT”

“Bottom line: EDI remains and will remain for years to come a high impact, valueable asset to business. More innovative approaches should be used for greenfield projects but EDI is a well-established approach that is still a vital component of most companies overall B2B strategy, and easily contributes to B2B, cloud computing, business intelligence, et al.

In other words…  “EDI is still HOT”.

Read the full Gartner blog

Contact
Adam Swanson, Business Development Manager
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E    aswanson@transalis.com
E    info@transalis.com

OpenEDI GS1 Certified Solution

Order-to-cash process
Transalis OpenEDI is the first GS1 order-to-cash certified cloud EDI solution and makes ordering, delivering and paying for goods faster, more accurate and cheaper.

Retailers and their suppliers do business more effectively when the order-to-cash process is run efficiently. GS1 has designed a solution that will reduce errors and cut costs for you and your customers.

What is the order-to-cash process?
It’s the process where goods are:

• ordered
• delivered and received
• invoiced and paid for

Whether you’re receiving or delivering the goods, this process is critical for almost all businesses. Companies of all sizes are reaping the rewards of automating their entire order-to-cash process by using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and GS1 eCom standards.

What are the benefits of automating the order-to-cash process?
It replaces paper based orders, delivery notes, invoices and other vital documents with GS1 industry standard electronic messages. You’ll benefit from:

• instant delivery and receipt of your messages
• no errors caused by manually re-keying in data
• lower costs due to fewer manual processes

And best of all, by automating your order-to-cash process you can automatically reconcile orders, deliveries and invoices – so you’ll eliminate more time consuming and error prone processes.

Request copy of GS1 EDI Order-to-cash solution overview
View Transalis GS1 Solution Provider Details
View Transalis GS1 Certification Certificate

Contact
Adam Swanson, Business Development Manager
T    UK 0845 123 3746 Int +44 1978 369 343
M   +44  (0)7500 963 078
E    aswanson@transalis.com
E    info@transalis.com

Transalis Growth

Transalis profits rise on strong cloud EDI sales. Transalis said customers had been buying its cloud EDI applications, which allows business critical EDI applications to be accessed securely via remote servers, at an “increasing rate”.

Transalis the leading provider of B2B OpenEDI SaaS cloud managed services, has reported a rise in quarterly profits, thanks to strong sales of its range of cloud EDI offerings.

Q1 net income for the three months to the end of March 2011 saw a rise of 45% on the Q1 net income the firm made a year ago.

The company said the “strong results were excellent news especially in the current global economic climate and proof that Transalis offerings were what the market wanted”.

Revenue in all other areas of the business picked up on a year earlier. Transalis Cloud OpenEDI is available anywhere @ www.Cloud9EDI.com 

“Consumers are purchasing Transalis offerings at an increasing rate, and businesses of all sizes are purchasing Transalis OpenEDI SaaS cloud services and applications,” said Joint Managing Director, Paul Simpson.

The company also said it was seeing strong take-up of its cloud EDI services by a wide range of businesses, large and small, throughout the growing EMEA market place as more businesses realised the potential and considerable advantages of Transalis OpenEDI cloud managed services.

See Gartner Cloud EDI blog
See Gartner EDI is HOT blog

Contact
Adam Swanson, Business Development Manager
T    UK 0845 123 3746 Int +44 1978 369 343
M   07500 963 078
E    aswanson@transalis.com
E    info@transalis.com

A.S. Watson (Health & Beauty Benelux) Signs Transalis OpenEDI Multi-Year European Managed Services Contract.

The world’s largest health & beauty retailer realises significant benefits of EDI outsourcing to Transalis for its European supply chain, retail brands, stores and suppliers.

London, United Kingdom — February 16, 2011 — Transalis, the leading provider of global OpenEDI and freeVAN EDI solutions, today announced that A.S. Watson (Health & Beauty Benelux) has signed a multi-year agreement for Transalis OpenEDI Managed Services across Europe.

OpenEDI Managed Services are Transalis’ range of SaaS and Cloud B2B e-commerce outsourcing services, including B2B messaging services, trading partner on boarding, community management, mapping, testing and monitoring. By outsourcing the management of its B2B e-commerce requirements, A.S. Watson is optimising its technical resources and improving its relationships with customers and suppliers.

A.S. Watson selected Transalis to maximise its European supply chain efficiency, to manage its entire B2B electronic enablement for up to 3,000 suppliers, across 16 European countries, for 8 major high-street retailers with up to 4,000 stores, including Superdrug, Savers and The Perfume Shop in the UK, Kruidvat , Trekpleister,  Drogas,  Marionnaud and  ICI Paris XL in continental Europe in Austria, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine.

Transalis will integrate B2B messages using its SaaS OpenEDI solution directly with A.S. Watson’s three ERP systems Retek, Navision and its own custom build platform, message exchange will utilise the Transalis freeVAN EDI service and suppliers will have access to a bespoke web-based and integrated  A.S. Watson OpenEDI offering.  Jos van Zeeland, group IT director for A.S. Watson said, “By outsourcing EDI to Transalis we expect to gain considerable improvement, reliability, and uniformity of B2B message exchange with our systems and our suppliers. Utilising Transalis Managed Services will help us reduce complexity, risk and cost with the aim of electronically enabling our European supply chain”.

As a large international retailer and production company with business activities worldwide A.S. Watson operates drugstore chains to luxury perfumeries, to shops with foods, electronics, general merchandising and airport shops. Confronted with internal and external challenges to optimise its supply chain operations, A.S. Watson identified the rationalisation of its B2B systems would increase efficiency and reduce costs and so lead to the choice of Transalis OpenEDI Managed Services.

Transalis OpenEDI Managed Services are a comprehensive range of SaaS B2B e-commerce outsourcing solutions that allows A.S. Watson to fully automate its supply chain message exchange and eliminate redundant EDI middleware, EDI VAN costs and manual paper-based processes. Transalis Managed Services deliver increased process integration and reduced process complexity. Aniello Sabatino, Joint Managing Director at Transalis said, “Transalis Managed Services provides A.S. Watson access to Transalis’ extensive technical expertise and experience with supply chain EDI roll out, management and support. This allows optimisation of A.S. Watson’s existing technology investments and resources while Transalis manages the company’s B2B programs and rolls them out across the supply chain, allowing A.S. Watson to focus on core business activities.”

Transalis solutions integrate multiple EDI documents and standards between multiple networks, systems and trading partners necessary to maintain complex B2B e-commerce programs.

About A.S Watson Group
The A.S. Watson Group (ASW) is the largest health & beauty, perfumery & cosmetics retailer in the world, dating back to 1828. ASW has grown into an international retailer and production company with business activities in 34 markets worldwide. ASW operates 19 retail brands, with more than 8,900 stores, from drugstore chains to luxury perfumeries, to shops with foods, electronics, general merchandising and airport shops. ASW employs more than 87,000 people and has establishments in 54 countries worldwide. ASW is active in 34 markets amongst others in Asia and Europe, including:  the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Turkey, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Portugal, Israel, Russia, Morocco, Rumania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Ireland, Estonia and Slovenia.

For more information on A.S.WATSON please visit www.eu.aswatson.com

About Transalis Limited
Transalis is changing the way companies communicate. Transalis is used by Argos, Play.com, Microsoft, Tetley and 1,000s more businesses to improve their electronic communication with suppliers and buyers. Transalis SaaS and Cloud Managed Services offer total supply chain electronic enablement while optimising existing technology investments and comes with an innovative cost-charging model to eliminate VAN charges. Transalis solutions integrate multiple EDI documents and standards between multiple networks, systems and trading partners. Existing closed-systems rely on communicating parties agreeing standards, message formats and processes. It is this restriction and complexity, the ‘integration nightmare’ with high costs that Transalis removes. By default, proprietary systems from different vendors fail to integrate efficiently; Transalis provides the ‘glue’, enabling organisations of all sizes regardless of IT deployed, to communicate electronically seamlessly. Transalis lets anyone exchange information electronically with anyone else, regardless of the technology they use. Transalis empowers any business, no matter how large, to work electronically with any other, no matter how small, anywhere in the world.

Use our UK EDI Community Blog to share ideas to help improve EDI and together we can build better EDI solutions http://www.transalis.com/blog/

For more information on TRANSALIS please visit www.transalis.com

Business Solutions Contact
Adam Swanson
Business Development Manager
TRANSALIS Ltd
Tel: +44 (0) 1978 369 343
Mobile: +44 (0) 7500 963 078
aswanson@transalis.com

97% of Transalis customers rate OpenEDI as excellent with extremely high customer satisfaction – the key success criterion, which is constantly monitored by Transalis management.

Transalis considers customer satisfaction and continuity of service of utmost importance. Our thousands of customers regularly exchange millions of EDI documents with their trading partners through OpenEDI. OpenEDI is the Transalis flagship application service; certified, tested and in production use for electronic enablement with the major brands, retailers and department stores in the UK. Since inception of OpenEDI not a single order or invoice has been lost and service availability is in excess of 99% including scheduled times for maintenance and upgrades outside normal business hours.

In addition, Transalis is commended by the UK Department for Innovation, Business and Skills (BIS) as a secure and reliable electronic platform for the UK’s business community. The UK Government’s Business Minister said “Transalis OpenEDI is a tremendous product, this is great news for any UK business & typical of the innovation the BIS are delighted to support.”

Transalis servers and networks are hosted in secure, purpose built multi-million pound data centres in London Docklands with further secure fail over data centres around the UK. Servers are subject to constant monitoring, online and offline archiving whilst backup of all data is performed on a regular basis. OpenEDI and related EDI services are further based on a state of the art infrastructure with extended secure facilities located in the USA to assure our customers of secure EDI communication.

This infrastructure provides multiple points of data recovery, Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), redundant power feeders and generators, redundant halon fire detection and suppression systems, and multiple communications entry points are just some of the inherent secure infrastructure characteristics which our services are based on.

The Transalis Continuity of Service has proved invaluable to all our larger customers with turnover of between £100m – £200m and we look forward to welcoming your organisation, whatever its size, to our rapidly growing OpenEDI community.

Transalis commended by the UK Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS).

The BIS worked with Transalis to develop OpenEDI into a secure and reliable platform for the UK’s business community.

The UK Government’s Business Minister said “Transalis OpenEDI is a tremendous product, this is great news for any UK business & typical of the innovation the BIS are delighted to support.”

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is building a dynamic and competitive UK economy by: creating the conditions for business success; promoting innovation, enterprise and science; and giving everyone the skills and opportunities to succeed. To achieve this it will foster world-class solutions and promote an open global economy. BIS – Investing in our future.

http://www.bis.gov.uk/ministers

Meet Transalis at the 2011 FSB Federation Of Small Businesses Annual Conference 17th to 19th March and find out how OpenEDI is e-Business Made Easy for every FSB member! www.fsb.org.uk/conference2011

Transalis is an FSB member and a leading provider of e-business on-demand supply chain management solutions. Our technology, OpenEDI, provides integration, collaboration, and connectivity to thousands of customers worldwide. In use by large organisations such as Argos, Play.com, Microsoft, Tetley, Superdrug, AS Watson Group through to 1,000s of medium-sized and small businesses, OpenEDI is the key to enabling electronic communication with suppliers and buyers.

We deliver our solutions using a Software-as-a-Service model. This means that you don’t’ require any hardware, software or internal expertise to exchange orders, invoices, shipping notes, product catalogues, and much more,  electronically with your trading partners.

With Transalis you are ready for e-business.  OpenEDI can remove costs, reduce time to implementation and the need for specialist skills. This frees up both capital and resources, allowing our customers to focus on their core business.

Whether you are looking to establish relationships with large retailers, distributors, wholesalers, manufacturers or would like to reduce error-prone manual data entry or perhaps reducing the amount of paper then contact Transalis and find out how we can help change the way you communicate.

Mark Prisk MP, Minister of State for Business and Enterprise in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is speaking at the conference. The BIS worked with Transalis to develop OpenEDI into a secure and reliable platform for the UK’s business community.

Business Ministers have said “Transalis OpenEDI is a tremendous product, this is great news for any UK business & typical of the innovation the BIS are delighted to support.” www.bis.gov.uk/ministers/mark-prisk

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is building a dynamic and competitive UK economy by: creating the conditions for business success; promoting innovation, enterprise and science; and giving everyone the skills and opportunities to succeed. To achieve this it will foster world-class solutions and promote an open global economy. BIS – Investing in our future.

www.transalis.com
www.openedi.com

Contact
Adam Swanson, Business Development Manager
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M   07500 963 078
E    aswanson@transalis.com
E    info@transalis.com

TRANSALIS, global solution provider for OpenEDI Managed Service Solutions generated 60% higher revenue at year end 2010.

Transalis, the leading provider of global OpenEDI and freeVAN EDI solutions, announced continued revenue growth up 60 percent on its previous year in its final 2010 results.

The UK based company, which provides integrated and web-based OpenEDI Managed Service and mobile data supply chain solutions to high street retailers, household brands and SMEs, welcomed many new brand customers and provided innovative new services to existing customers. Growth was attributed to increased take-up of Transalis SaaS Software as a Service and Transalis Cloud Managed Service offerings, adding large supply chain customers including pan-European retail and manufacturing brand A.S. Watson Group, wholesale gifts and home decorations company Present Time UK, British clothing brand Aertex Clothing, and global sports brand Maximuscle UK.

Paul Simpson, Joint Managing Director, commented on the company’s continued high growth “Businesses of all sizes are seeking major cost-savings in the current economic climate and looking to their IT solution providers and business advisors to help them realise these savings by rationalising their existing systems and removing outdated systems and redundant pieces of middleware in favour of solutions like Transalis SaaS and Cloud managed service solutions, and we expect this trend in increase considerably during 2011.”

Transalis is considerably expanding its customer base across Europe adding a further c.3000 OpenEDI users during 2011 in a further 20 European counties including Austria, Belgium, Czech, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and in eastern Europe Russia.

Continued investment in R&D to produce innovative new service offerings also increased sales revenues. Transalis is rolling out its freeVAN EDI Supply Chain service to European retail organisations to deliver EDI documents with zero VAN traffic costs. The service enables B2B business-to-business electronic document exchange between any trading organisations, from the largest retailers to the smallest independent suppliers.

Transalis also became an IBM Business Partner and Apple Developer making its OpenEDI services available on iPhone and iPad, expanding its mobile business data sharing offerings, allowing business critical data to be accessed by mobile users anytime, anyplace, anywhere with the ability to integrate data with systems in fixed locations at any time.

Reviewing Transalis expectations for 2011, Adam Swanson, Transalis business development manager, commented “The powerful combination of Transalis OpenEDI and freeVAN managed services allows large companies to trade electronically with all suppliers for 100% supply chain EDI enablement with considerably reduced costs, higher productivity and optimised processes plus managed services for web, integrated and supply chain EDI. We have an ever increasing sales pipeline proving Transalis offerings are providing what the market needs and we will continue to provide solutions to meet those needs.”

http://www.gartner.com/technology/innovation/it-predictions.jsp

Business Solutions Contact
Adam Swanson
Business Development Manager
TRANSALIS Ltd
+44 (0) 1978 369 343
aswanson@transalis.com

Founded in 1995 by sports nutrition expert Zef Eisenberg Maxumuscle is the UK’s number one sports nutrition supplier.

Maximuscle has grown at a phenomenal rate by focusing on highly effective research-supported formulas that deliver what they promise. By making great tasting, science supported, safe products easily available, Maximuscle has helped sports people – from the gym enthusiast to the elite Olympian – realise their full potential.

Maximuscle UK will be using Transalis OpenEDI with their main UK supermarket customers Asda, Boots, Costco, Morrisons, Sainsbury, Superdrug, Waitrose and Tesco.

www.maximuscle.com

The Aertex company was born Back in the late 1800s. Today Aertex is gaining in popularity with people from all walks of life, including the celebrity worlds of entertainment and sport. Big Brother presenter Jeff Leach, Dirty Pretty Things Carl Barrat, Ruff Sqwads Fuda Guy, Rugby Legend Gareth Thomas and The Charlatan’s Jon Brooks to name but a few.

Today Aertex is a premium brand, with a new online store at www.aertex.com and visits from customers in over 70 countries. Aertex is firmly established in the hearts and minds of modern customers as a brand that offers style, quality and comfort.

www.aertex.com

Transalis is expanding its OpenEDI mobile solutions with Apple. Our OpenEDI mobile solutions will let you stay in touch with your EDI trading partners wherever you are and remain in full control of your business EDI transactions.

As a member of the Apple Developer Program Transalis gains access to a complete and integrated process for developing OpenEDI iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch applications to reach millions of iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store utilizing the world’s most advanced mobile platform.

We are dedicated to the needs of companies that want to enter into advanced communications with their trading partners using electronic data interchange EDI to exchange business documents by making them available via Apple iPad and iPhone applications.

www.apple.com

As an IBM Business Partner Transalis is implementing OpenEDI cloud-delivered solutions for our customers, that reduce their costs, lower risk, provide higher quality services, and enable breakthrough agility. Being an IBM business partner helps Transalis design, build, and manage clouds that are secure, flexible, and reliable via fixed pc and mobile devices.

Earlier this year, IBM shared its 2015 roadmap and the four growth initiatives which will contribute to the company’s future success. The initiatives – smarter planet, cloud computing, business analytics, and growth markets – are expected to deliver $20 billion in revenue growth for our company in the next five years. These initiatives open up an unbelievable opportunity for IBM’s Business Partners and their customers.

www.ibm.com

OpenEDI exchanges 9 Million EDI documents a year

Transalis has EDI connections into the top 100 retail brands below that sell the full range of retail goods, food, drink & FMCGs for its OpenEDI web-based, integrated and supply chain OpenEDI offerings:

Amazon, Argos, Asda, AS Watson, Booker, Boots, B&Q, Budgens, Clinton Cards, Co-Op, Comet, Costco, Debenhams, Dixons, Focus, Ford Motor Co, General Motors, Gillette, HMV, Harrods, Homebase, House of Fraser, Iceland, IKEA, John Lewis, Kerry Foods, King, Londis, Masterfoods, Makro, Musgrave, Morrisons, Nisa, O2, P&G, Play.com, RHM, Toys R Us, Safeway, Sainsbury, Somerfield, Superdrug, Tetley, Tesco, Travis Perkins, Unilever, Volkswagen, Volvo, Waitrose, Wilkinsons, Wickes, 3M, Babies R Us, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Bloomingdales, Bon Ton, C&S Grocers, Drugstore.com, Footlocker, GAP, Home Depot, Hudson Bay, JC Penny, Kmart, Kroger, Lowes, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Office Depot, Petsmart, Piggly Wiggly, QVC, Rosenthal, Saks, Sears, Staples, Steinmart, Supervalu, Target, Virgin, Wal-Mart, Walt Disney.

Transalis Retail EDI Customers

Transalis has 5,000 EDI users that supply the main 100 retail brands above with white goods, electrical appliances, household goods, home & garden, jewellery, clothing, processed foods, fresh, ambient and frozen foods, soft drinks, health drinks, alcoholic beverages & FMCGs for its OpenEDI web-based, integrated and supply chain OpenEDI offerings.

Transalis Customers Retail EDI Volumes

Transalis EDI customers in the retail sector transact the volumes below:
Retail value through OpenEDI tops £900Million per annum

Transalis Retail Brand EDI Connections

Transalis has EDI connections into all the top main retail brands that sell the full range of retail goods, food, drink & FMCGs for its OpenEDI web-based, integrated and supply chain OpenEDI offerings:

Amazon, Argos, Asda, AS Watson, Booker, Boots, B&Q, Budgens, Clinton Cards, Co-Op, Comet, Costco, Debenhams, Dixons, Focus, Ford Motor Co, General Motors, Gillette, HMV, Harrods, Homebase, House of Fraser, Iceland, IKEA, John Lewis, Kerry Foods, King, Londis, Masterfoods, Makro, Musgrave, Morrisons, Nisa, O2, P&G, Play.com, RHM, Toys R Us, Safeway, Sainsbury, Somerfield, Superdrug, Tetley, Tesco, Travis Perkins, Unilever, Volkswagen, Volvo, Waitrose, Wilkinsons, Wickes, 3M, Babies R Us, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Bloomingdales, Bon Ton, C&S Grocers, Drugstore.com, Footlocker, GAP, Home Depot, Hudson Bay, JC Penny, Kmart, Kroger, Lowes, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Office Depot, Petsmart, Piggly Wiggly, QVC, Rosenthal, Saks, Sears, Staples, Steinmart, Supervalu, Target, Virgin, Wal-Mart, Walt Disney.

Transalis Retail EDI Customers

Transalis has EDI users that supply all the main retail brands above with white goods, electrical appliances, household goods, home & garden, jewellery, clothing, processed foods, fresh, ambient and frozen foods, soft drinks, health drinks, alcoholic beverages & FMCGs for its OpenEDI web-based, integrated and supply chain OpenEDI offerings.

Transalis Customers Retail EDI Volumes

Number of retail OpenEDI users tops 5,000
Transalis EDI customers in the retail sector transact the volumes below:
Retail transactions through OpenEDI tops 9Million EDI documents per annum 

Transalis Retail EDI Customers

Transalis has EDI users that supply the main retail brands below with white goods, electrical appliances, household goods, home & garden, jewellery, clothing, processed foods, fresh, ambient and frozen foods, soft drinks, health drinks, alcoholic beverages & FMCGs for its OpenEDI web-based, integrated and supply chain OpenEDI offerings:

Number of retail users 5,000
Approx: 20% large businesses with T/O £50m to over £100m (max up to £400m)
Approx: 70% midsize businesses with T/O under £50m
Approx: 10% small businesses with T/O under £10m

Transalis Retail Brand EDI Connections

Transalis has EDI connections into the top main retail brands below that sell the full range of retail goods, food, drink & FMCGs for its OpenEDI web-based, integrated and supply chain OpenEDI offerings:

Amazon, Argos, Asda, AS Watson, Booker, Boots, B&Q, Budgens, Clinton Cards, Co-Op, Comet, Costco, Debenhams, Dixons, Focus, Ford Motor Co, General Motors, Gillette, HMV, Harrods, Homebase, House of Fraser, Iceland, IKEA, John Lewis, Kerry Foods, King, Londis, Masterfoods, Makro, Musgrave, Morrisons, Nisa, O2, P&G, Play.com, RHM, Toys R Us, Safeway, Sainsbury, Somerfield, Superdrug, Tetley, Tesco, Travis Perkins, Unilever, Volkswagen, Volvo, Waitrose, Wilkinsons, Wickes, 3M, Babies R Us, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Bloomingdales, Bon Ton, C&S Grocers, Drugstore.com, Footlocker, GAP, Home Depot, Hudson Bay, JC Penny, Kmart, Kroger, Lowes, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Office Depot, Petsmart, Piggly Wiggly, QVC, Rosenthal, Saks, Sears, Staples, Steinmart, Supervalu, Target, Virgin, Wal-Mart, Walt Disney.

You can cut costs by doing business electronically. In today’s competitive economy, companies are looking to be more efficient, cut costs and maintain good relationships with customers.  This is a great challenge when 81% of UK companies still rely on manual, paper-based processes for orders, invoices and other documents. 

Transalis is an EDI Solution Provider Member of GS1. Request a copy of the report.

Every year, the UK retail sector places over 27 million orders.  How do these retailers and their suppliers manage to operate sleek and efficient supply chains and keep their prices competitive?

The answer is by automating their transactions using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) technology.  GS1 EDI report reveals that this saves the UK’s leading retailers and their suppliers £650 million a year. 

If you already use EDI, you’ll know how it improves the order-to-invoice processes by making them:

cheaper
faster
more accurate
more efficient

Find out how Transalis OpenEDI can help you replicate the success of the retail sector in the GS1 EDI cost savings report. Request a copy of the report today to learn how EDI can help you improve efficiency, cut costs and remove manual, paper-based processes.

Argos EDI Team, Merchandise Data Support, Argos.,”OpenEDI is one of the easiest EDI solutions available. You’ll be ready within 48hrs and trading with Argos using the new OpenEDI services. And, you can integrate the Argos EDI services with your back-office or retail systems. This new OpenEDI service has been specifically developed for ALL Argos suppliers. Option 1. The online version is one of the easiest & most flexible EDI solutions available. You benefit by viewing your EDI documents securely & easily online. Options 2. All the online benefits of Option 1 plus the added benefits of a Data Link for users to securely download & integrate EDI documents (in the way you want FTP, AS2, HTTPS, SMTP, VAN etc) with your existing EDI, accounting or retail systems”.

Looking for help?

Transalis can answer any questions you have about doing business electronically and offer an OpenEDI solution for you, no matter what size business you are – large or small. Contact us for details.

Transalis, the leading provider of global OpenEDI and freeVAN EDI solutions, announced continued revenue growth up 40 percent on its previous year in its interim 2010 results.

The UK based company, which provides web-based and integrated OpenEDI Managed Service supply chain solutions to high street brands and SMEs, welcomed many new brand customers and provided innovative new services to existing customers. Growth was attributed to increased take-up of Transalis SaaS (Software as a Service) and Cloud service offerings, adding customers including sports brand Mitre Sports, award winning British product design company Grey Technology, British clothing brand TM Lewin, and global audio brand Bowers & Wilkins.

Aniello Sabatino, Director, Transalis solutions, commented on the company’s continued growth “in the current economic climate businesses are seeking major cost-savings and looking to their IT solution providers to help them realise these savings by rationalising their existing systems and removing outdated and redundant pieces of middleware in favour of solutions like Transalis SaaS and Cloud managed service solutions, and we expect this trend to increase considerably during 2010 /11.”

Continued investment in R&D to produce innovative new service offerings also increased sales revenues. Transalis is rolling out its freeVAN EDI Supply Chain service to retail organisations, to deliver EDI documents with zero VAN traffic costs. The service enables B2B (business-to-business) electronic document exchange between any trading organisations, from the largest retailers to the smallest, independent suppliers.

Transalis is expanding its Channel Partner growth in Europe generating a further 3,000 OpenEDI users during 2010/11 in sixteen countries across Europe, including new OpenEDI customer the stationery brand Helix, through Transalis channel partner, Technology Management Ltd, based in Birmingham, UK. 

Transalis also added a further 1,600 UK Garden Centres to its HEBE (Horticultural Electronic Business Exchange) service in partnership with the HTA (Horticultural Trades Association), based in Reading, UK.

Transalis also made its OpenEDI services available on iPhone and iPad, expanding its mobile business data sharing offerings, allowing business critical data to be accessed by mobile users anytime, anyplace, anywhere with the ability to integrate data with systems in fixed locations at anytime.

Reviewing Transalis expectation for 2010/11, Adam Swanson, Transalis business development, commented “The powerful combination of Transalis OpenEDI and freeVAN managed services allows large companies to trade electronically with all suppliers for 100% supply chain EDI enablement with considerably reduced costs, higher productivity and optimised processes plus managed services for web, integrated and supply chain EDI. We have an ever increasing sales pipeline proving Transalis offerings are providing what the market needs and we will continue to provide solutions to meet those needs.”

Microsoft Ireland Operations extends Transalis European EDI Contract.

The Microsoft development team based in Dublin have extended its vendor services contract with Transalis for EDI enablement of its European trading partners.

Transalis currently provides its OpenEDI integration services for Microsoft Ireland Operations Entertainment and Devises Systems group, with a range of Microsoft’s European trading partners including Argos & John Lewis in the UK, Fnac in Belgium and Mediamarkt in Germany.

The Transalis OpenEDI integration services for Microsoft include:

Provision of partner integration and electronic message translation services for the Microsoft E&D Systems group. Transalis sits between Microsoft and Microsoft’s trading partners. Transalis receives multiple message formats from Microsoft partners and reformats and translates these messages into the format required by Microsoft. This alleviates the need for Microsoft to build internal solutions.

http://www.xbox.com/en-IE/live/Enjoy.htm

PLAY.com the online retailer rolls out Transalis web-based OpenEDI.

Transalis has rolled out its web-based OpenEDI service for 200 PLAY.com suppliers. The new web-based EDI service was developed specifically to meet PLAY’s updated business processes for the complete EDI order-to-invoice cycle.

The new PLAY OpenEDI service is provided to PLAY’s suppliers at no charge to the supplier and allows every PLAY supplier to gain the benefits of trading by EDI with PLAY.

Play EDI Team, OpenEDI is one of the easiest & most flexible EDI solutions available. Suppliers are trading with Play using the new Play OpenEDI Portal within 24hrs. And, suppliers can integrate with their back-office or retail systems. The new Play OpenEDI Portal has been specifically developed for ALL Play suppliers. Option 1. The online version, our suppliers benefit by viewing EDI documents securely & easily online. Options 2. All the online benefits of Option 1 plus the added benefits of a Data Link for suppliers to integrate EDI documents with any existing EDI, accounting or retail systems.

Argos the UK’s “favourite” store & online catalogue retailer rolls out Transalis OpenEDI.

Transalis has rolled out its OpenEDI service for 600 Argos suppliers. The new Argos OpenEDI service was developed specifically to improve Argos business processes for the complete EDI order-to-invoice cycle.

The new Argos OpenEDI service allows all Argos suppliers to gain the benefits of trading by EDI with Argos.

Argos EDI Team, OpenEDI is one of the most flexible & user-friendly EDI solutions available. Suppliers are trading with Argos using the new web-based system within 48hrs. And, suppliers can integrate with their back-office or retail systems. The new Argos OpenEDI system has been specifically developed for ALL Argos suppliers. Option 1. The online version, our suppliers benefit by viewing EDI documents securely & easily online. Options 2. All the online benefits of Option 1 plus the added benefits of a Data Link for suppliers to integrate EDI documents with any existing EDI, accounting or retail systems.

Gartner’s recently published “Supply Chain Survey 2010” has stated that in order for Supply Chain leaders to gain competitive advantage they must first understand the software delivery models that are available on the market.

No longer is traditional in house licensed software seen as the solution to supply chain demands.  With the emergence of SaaS cloud computing the playing field has been levelled, with Gartner quoting “because SAAS is priced by user or transaction, small and medium-sized businesses can access capabilities previously available only to larger enterprises that could afford multimillion-dollar on-premises licences and implementations”

Transalis has seen a sharp rise in the work it is doing for its more innovative customers who now have the opportunity to create and control business processes that previously were not seen as reality helping to improving the way they exchange and analyse data.

Alternative delivery models for supply chain solutions can, however, provide new or improved capabilities to all users several months or even years sooner than the traditional, on-premises licence, Transalis expects the trend it is seeing in the small to medium sized businesses to continue as we deliver the tools needed to take advantage of Supply Chain Technology and drive business forward.

Transalis welcomes new ideas and opportunities so please speak with us directly to find out how we are “Changing the way companies communicate”

Full article available: http://www.supplymanagement.com/news/2010/understanding-of-web-based-software-needs-to-keep-up-with-increase-in-use/ 

Contact
Adam Swanson
Business Development
TRANSALIS Ltd
0845 123 3746
+44 (0) 1978 369 343
aswanson@transalis.com

New Transalis service targets supply chain comms cost

EDI vendor delivers freeVAN EDI service to remove VAN traffic operational overheads

With over 80 year’s experience of optical and technological innovation and a truly global presence, PENTAX is internationally renowned for setting new standards with its products. With a wide range of products that are specifically designed to meet the demands of today’s customers.

Pentax UK use Transalis OpenEDI with its UK trading partners including; Amazon, Argos, ASDA, Best Buy UK, Boots, Comet, Dixons, Makro and Tesco.

PENTAX continues to be at the forefront of product design and technology.

http://www.pentax.co.uk/

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Over the past 9 years, Gtech’s team of experts have been pushing the boundaries of innovation
in floorcare and garden products making Gtech the successful company it is today.

Globally, Gtech has sold over 16 million sweepers through international partners making them experts in their field. The V- technology vacuum range was launched in 2009 and Gtech continue to have success in the cordless garden sector.

Gtech are very proud of their powerful retail presence throughout the nation and use Transalis OpenEDI for stores including ASDA, Currys, Comet, John Lewis, House of Fraser, Debenhams, Robert Dyas, Tesco and The Range.

http://www.gtechonline.co.uk/about-gtech/

T.M.Lewin was established in 1898 in Jermyn Street, London.

Today, T.M.Lewin offers a range of menswear that includes mens shirts, suits, ties, cufflinks, casualwear, outerwear and accessories, as well as a distinctive range of womenswear, including shirts, suits, knitwear and accessories. For something with a creative twist, we also offer our John Francomb range – a modern take on the business wardrobe. With over 60 stores currently in the UK and plans to open more, whether you shop in store, online, through our catalogue or via our phones, we look forward to bringing you the very best in quality mens and womens businesswear.

http://www.tmlewin.co.uk/

A new white paper, co authored by Professor Alan Braithwaite, estimates that data inaccuracy among the top five retailers and their suppliers is costing as much as £1.4 billion per year – one per cent of total revenue, and a considerably higher figure than previously estimated.

The paper sets out eight key steps to secure the benefits of high levels of accuracy:

1. Measure actual performance – continuously.
2. On physical dimensions, use equipment like CubiScan to capture missing data on goods receipt.
3. Monitor and analyse data adjustments.
4. Set up a perpetual audit process.
5. Apply the framework to identify value potential and focus on the big opportunities.
6. Systematically improve Processes to manage input.
7. Build six sigma accuracy into cross-functional KPIs and make data quality everyone’s responsibility.
8. Automate data alignment where possible.

With its built in reporting functionality OpenEDI has enabled suppliers to automate their data transfer and upload product file data, price file catalogues, inventory reports, sales reports.  This total supply chain EDI enablement means that clean, accurate data is sent and received instantly allowing retailers and suppliers better visibility of stock, instant knowledge of order/delivery quantities and correct allocation of warehouse and shelving space.

Contact Transalis now to find out how we are changing the way companies communicate.

For the full article please check the link below:

http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/14171/Data+inaccuracy+costs+retail+14+bn.html?IBE=LMDaily

 With Transalis OpenEDI Managed Services there’s no software or EDI knowledge required.

OpenEDI is used by large organizations such as Argos, Microsoft, PLAY.com & Tetley & 1,000’s of other companies for the complete EDI order-to-invoice cycle for 1,000’s of suppliers & buyers. With OpenEDI there’s nothing stopping any organization rolling out EDI to all their large, small & medium size trading partners for total supply chain EDI enablement.

Contact
Adam Swanson
Business Development
TRANSALIS Ltd
UK: +44 (0) 1978 369 343
USA: (845) 605-4475
aswanson@transalis.com

Reduce your VAN costs to ZERO with freeVAN

Contact us today and find out how easy it is!

You can completely remove your VAN costs with a single freeVAN connection to your whole supply chain. Other VANs charge for traffic generating costs and not all suppliers use the same VAN creating complexity. FreeVAN simplifies the process as all suppliers can connect easily to any retailer via freeVAN with no traffic charges to the retailer.

With freeVAN you can send & receive unlimited EDI Orders, Order Amendments, Acknowledgments, Invoices, ASNs, Despatch Advice Notes, Delivery Notes, Debit Notes, Credit Notes, Remittance Advice Notes, Sales & Inventory Reports & any other EDI documents with zero traffic costs.

FreeVAN offers 100% supply chain EDI enablement with considerably reduced costs, higher productivity and optimized processes plus Managed Services for Web, Integrated & Supply Chain EDI. And, you can remove outdated EDI translation software for seamless EDI integration with your internal systems using Transalis OpenEDI Managed Services.

TRANSALIS, global solution provider for EDI Managed Service Solutions, is rolling out its freeVAN EDI Supply Chain service to retail organisations, to deliver EDI documents with zero VAN traffic costs.

The freeVAN EDI service allows large businesses and organisations (hubs) to securely transmit EDI documents with zero VAN (Value Added Network) traffic costs for the first time. The service enables B2B (business-to-business) electronic document exchange between any trading organisations, from the largest retailers to the smallest, independent suppliers.

Further, TRANSALIS has bundled its OpenEDI functionality with the freeVAN service to enable businesses to exchange information electronically, regardless of file formats, size of organisation or technical capabilities. By integrating OpenEDI technology, it allows any business to comply with any other’s EDI requirements. The bundled offering allows hubs to reduce EDI costs and complexity and EDI enable their whole supply chain.

The powerful combination of freeVAN and OpenEDI allows large companies to trade electronically with all suppliers. FreeVAN offers 100% supply chain EDI enablement with considerably reduced costs, higher productivity and optimised processes plus Managed Services for Web, Integrated & Supply Chain EDI and removes outdated EDI translation software for seamless EDI integration with internal systems to maximise existing technology investments.

Contact us today and find out more.

  
TRANSALIS  works with global brands to turn EDI into profit centres.

TRANSALIS, global solution provider for EDI Managed Service Solutions, has worked with major retail brands to remove their internal EDI costs and turn EDI into profit centres through its OpenEDI and freeVAN EDI Supply Chain services.

And, their suppliers can also make substantial cost savings on their EDI services by simply switching to Transalis feeVAN and OpenEDI services.

Contact us today and find out more.

E4libraries is a BIC Book Industry Communication project to improve the efficiency of the library supply chain through the application of technology and commitment to standards.

As a full member of the BIC Transalis is promoting its existing OpenEDI offerings for libraries for the e4Libraries project and is committed to creating an efficient supply chain for both physical and digital products in the library sector, working with all the relevant stakeholders to eliminate wasteful and time-consuming practices and implement solutions acceptable to all.

Contact us today to find out more.

BIC is the book industry’s independent supply chain organisation, committed to impoving the efficiency of the book trade and library supply chains, reducing cost and automating processes.

As a full member of the BIC Transalis is promoting its existing OpenEDI offerings and is committed to creating an efficient supply chain for both physical and digital products in the book trade and library sectors, working with all the relevant stakeholders to eliminate wasteful and time-consuming practices and implement solutions acceptable to all.

Contact us today to find out more.

Mitre Sports International the global sports brand choose Transalis OpenEDI for EDI with their trading partners.

http://www.mitre.com/

John Lewis the UK’s “best loved” department store.

OpenEDI services options available to JLP suppliers which include a quick set up and migration service designed to minimise costs and disruption.

Tetley Tea the UK’s “perfect cup of tea” chooses Transalis OpenEDI.Transalis has rolled out its OpenEDI service for Tetley’s buyers with RSS. The new Tetley OpenEDI service was developed specifically to improve Tetley’s processes for the complete EDI order-to-invoice cycle.

The new Tetley OpenEDI service allows all Tetley buyers to gain the benefits of trading by EDI with Tetley.

Tetley use TRANSALIS to electronically enable their field sales support partner RSS. By working with Tetley & RSS, TRANSALIS has developed components that deliver better EDI solutions for their trading partners. TRANSALIS is particularly pleased to have worked with Tetley & RSS, as we believe their business vision offers them a competitive advantage.

Help Build Better EDI Solutions.

Use our Global EDI Community Blog as a positive platform to share your ideas to help improve EDI and together we can build better EDI solutions.  To share EDI issues and problems (whatever they are and whoever your current EDI provider is) get blogging to help build better EDI solutions.

Top Blog Topics: (just ask us to add more)

1. VAN Traffic – Do I really have to pay for VAN traffic any more?
2. FreeVAN - Can I get a zero VAN traffic cost service?
3. EDI Translation Software – Do I really need it any more?
4. 100% Supply Chain EDI – How can I achieve it & optimise my current processes?
5. Managed Services – How can I reduce EDI costs & complexity?

What would you like to improve? Get blogging…

Or email your suggested EDI blog topics or problems to brightideas@transalis.com and we’ll respond with a positive solution. We can’t wait to help!

PRESS RELEASE – Thursday, 22 April 2010

FREEVAN REMOVES SUPPLY CHAIN TRAFFIC COSTS

TRANSALIS, a global solution provider for EDI Managed Service Solutions, has announced the launch of its freeVAN EDI Supply Chain service, at the GS1 UK Annual Conference 22^nd April, to deliver EDI documents with zero VAN traffic costs.

The freeVAN EDI service will allow large businesses and organisations (hubs) to securely transmit EDI documents with zero VAN (Value Added Network) traffic costs for the first time. The service will enable B2B (business-to-business) electronic document exchange between any trading organisations, from the largest retailers to the smallest, independent suppliers.

TRANSALIS worked closely with large retail brands to develop the freeVAN service enabling companies of all sizes to trade electronically. The new service allows large businesses, who previously had to pay for VAN traffic, to take advantage of the powerful freeVAN service to remove supply chain VAN traffic costs.

Further, TRANSALIS has bundled its OpenEDI functionality with the freeVAN service to enable businesses to exchange information electronically, regardless of file formats, size of organisation or technical capabilities. By integrating OpenEDI technology, it allows any business to comply with any other’s EDI requirements. The bundled offering allows hubs to reduce EDI costs and complexity and EDI enable their whole supply chain.

Adam Swanson, Business Development at TRANSALIS comments, “The combination of freeVAN and OpenEDI allows large companies to trade electronically with all suppliers. FreeVAN offers 100% supply chain EDI enablement with considerably reduced costs, higher productivity and optimised processes plus Managed Services for Web, Integrated & Supply Chain EDI. And, you can remove outdated EDI translation software for seamless EDI integration with your internal systems using TRANSALIS OpenEDI Managed Services.”

Argos, Play.com, Microsoft, Tetley, and other hubs use TRANSALIS for their complete order-to-invoice cycle. By working with hubs, TRANSALIS has developed components that deliver better EDI solutions for their trading partners. TRANSALIS is particularly pleased to have worked with the hubs above, as we believe their business vision offers them a competitive advantage.

Adam Swanson concludes, “TRANSALIS has incorporated many years experience of this industry, coupled with our retail partners expertise, to develop a bundled solution that meets modern EDI requirements to reduce costs and complexity and to maximise our customers’ existing technology investments.”

Ends

Notes to Editors

freeVAN service includes: zero VAN traffic charges, customised OpenEDI Web Portal for trading partners, tailored pilot, full testing, integration, and global supply chain roll-out.

About TRANSALIS Ltd

TRANSALIS is changing the way companies communicate. TRANSALIS is used by Argos, Play.com, Microsoft, Tetley and 1,000s more businesses to improve their electronic communication with suppliers and buyers. TRANSALIS SaaS Managed Services offer total supply chain electronic enablement while optimising existing technology investments and comes with an innovative cost-charging model to eliminate VAN charges. TRANSALIS solutions integrate multiple EDI documents and standards between multiple networks, systems and trading partners. Existing closed-systems rely on communicating parties agreeing standards, message formats and processes. It is this restriction and complexity, the ‘integration nightmare’ with high costs that TRANSALIS removes. By default, proprietary systems from different vendors fail to integrate efficiently; TRANSALIS provides the ‘glue’, enabling organisations of all sizes regardless of IT deployed, to communicate electronically seamlessly. TRANSALIS lets anyone exchange information electronically with anyone else, regardless of the technology they use. TRANSALIS empowers any business, no matter how large, to work electronically with any other, no matter how small, anywhere in the world.

Use our Global EDI Community Blog to share ideas to help improve EDI and together we can build better EDI solutions http://www.transalis.com/blog/

For more information on TRANSALIS please visit www.transalis.com

Contact
Adam Swanson
Business Development
TRANSALIS Ltd
+44 (0) 1978 369 343
aswanson@transalis.com

New Global EDI freeVAN Service Launch At GS1 2010 Confernce.

Join us on our exhibition stand at the GS1 2010 Annual Conference on 22nd April as we launch our new EDI freeVAN service.

Transalis freeVAN is changing the way companies communicate. Come and meet us and fiind out how to completely remove your VAN costs with a single freeVAN connection to your whole supply chain.

Major brands like  Argos, Play.com, Microsoft, Tetley and 1,000s more businesses work with Transalis to improve their electronic communication with suppliers and buyers. FreeVAN offers total supply chain EDI enablement with zero VAN traffic costs while optimising existing technology investments. FreeVAN integrates multiple EDI documents and standards between multiple networks, systems and trading partners. Existing closed-systems rely on communicating parties agreeing standards, message formats and processes. It is this restriction and complexity, the ‘integration nightmare’ with high costs that freeVAN removes. By default, proprietary systems from different vendors fail to integrate efficiently - freeVAN provides the ‘glue’, enabling organisations of all sizes, regardless of IT deployed, to communicate electronically seamlessly. FreeVAN lets anyone exchange information electronically with anyone else, regardless of the technology they use and empowers any business, no matter how large, to work electronically with any other, no matter how small, anywhere in the world.