Customer Success Stories
 
retail  
Retail

 Best Buy
Best Buy Co., Inc., North America's leading specialty retailer of consumer electronics, personal computers, entertainment software and appliances, uses GXS Product Data Quality to increase customer satisfaction and reduce data errors.
   
 Circuit City
Circuit City Stores, Inc., a leading specialty retailer of consumer electronics, uses GXS electronic invoicing to improve productivity and reduce costs.
   
 WHSmith
WHSmith is one of the UK's largest retailers and a long-term user of EDI.  WHSmith consolidated its e-commerce activities using GXS Managed Services.
   
 Dixons Group plc
One of Europe’s leading consumer electronic retailers, Dixons sought a means to improve communications, speed processes and increase efficiency in its dealings with suppliers.
   
 J.C. Penney Company, Inc.
One of the U.S’s largest department store, drugstore and catalog retailers, J.C. Penney turned to GXS to enable the retailer to track shipments using scanning technology, label shipments with barcodes and send Advance Ship Notices (ASNs).
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Consumer Products

 Eastman Kodak Company
This global leader in photography, imaging and scanning was searching for a solution that could provide a complete B2B integration solution combining services with fully SAP-certified products.
   
 Herman Kay
Located in New York, Herman Kay provides a wide selection of outerwear for women and men. By using Trading Grid Messaging Service and Global Product Catalogue, Herman Kay was able to lower transaction costs, speed communications and increase the number of trading partners with access to its style information.
   
 Liz Claiborne
 Liz Claiborne apparel and accessories are available at more than 22,000 different retail locations throughout the world. Whether supplier or customer, large or small, local or international, Liz Claiborne must communicate seamlessly with all its trading partners and maintain agility to continuously add new partners to its supply chain.
   
 Monarch Towel Company
Monarch Towel Company is a robe and towel distributor based in New Jersey that offers robes, towels and slippers that combine exacting manufacturing with high-quality materials designed primarily for hotel use. Using Trading Grid Messaging Service, Monarch Towel Company was able to go international by serving as a logistics warehouse for a Brazilian factory.
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Food & Beverage

 Coca-Cola Amatil
Producing over 1,450 million litres of beverage products a year, Coca-Cola Amatil supplies around 114,000 customers from large supermarket chains to small corner stores. In order to provide better service, Coca-Cola Amatil turned to GXS for a fully outsourced e-commerce solution.
auto  
Automotive

Chrysler
Even though the automaker’s large suppliers were using EDI, it would take weeks to process some orders because small suppliers still relied on paper. Chrysler needed an inexpensive EDI solution for small, low-volume suppliers.
   
 Honda
Intensifying pressure from overseas was pressuring Honda Foundry, a division of the Japanese automotive giant, to enhance the efficiency of its business transactions by eliminating manual processes and increasing its capacity to handle business documents.
   
 Mitsubishi Motors
Headquartered in Tokyo, Mitsubishi Motors is a leading manufacturer and distributor of cars and quality replacement parts. Mitsubishi automobiles are manufactured in multiple countries and Mitsubishi Motors products are sold in more than 170 countries throughout the world.
Hi Tech  
High Tech & Manufacturing

 InFocus
InFocus communicates daily with hundreds of suppliers and customers around the world. This network includes contract manufacturers in low-cost markets; technology distributors such as Ingram Micro, TechData and CDW; as well as leading retailers such as Best Buy, Circuit City, Costco, Office Depot and Staples.
   
 Bsteel
Bsteel is the IT business unit of Shanghai-based Baosteel Group, the largest iron and steel producer in China. They deploy and manage Baosteel’s global B2B e-commerce strategies. Using GXS Enterprise Gateway and Trading Grid Messaging Service solutions Bsteel provides a unified platform for integrating Baosteel’s internal business units, customers and suppliers around the world to support data gathering, translation and integration into their forecast to payment supply chain execution.
   
 Rohm & Haas
By automating end-to-end supplier invoicing process, specialty materials manufacturer's facilities around the globe can transact more easily with thousands of suppliers.
   
 Thomson Consumer Electronics
The America’s subsidiary of Thomson Multimedia is outsourcing its electronic data interchange (EDI) and an extranet site to GXS in an effort expected to save the electronics giant millions of dollars during the next four years.
 
Trade & Transportation

 Bangladesh - Export Promotion
The government of this emerging south Asian nation needed to gain visibility and control over its exports of textiles into its largest market—the United States.
   
 Cambodia - Ministry of Commerce
When this SE Asian nation started to experience problems with the textile quota levels negotiated with the US government, it turned to electronic communications from GXS to expedite trade.
   
 FedEx
FedEx Corp, the premier global provider of transportation, e-commerce and supply chain management services, chose GXS to support more than 100 million electronic transactions and deliver nearly five million shipments every day.
   
 Royal Mail
Wholly owned by the UK Government, Royal Mail has annual sales in excess of 8 billion pounds and delivers some 82 million items to 27 million addresses each day. Integrated communications from GXS are key to its success.
   
 Schenker AG
Schenker AG is one of the world’s leading providers of integrated logistics services. The company has worked with GXS for over a decade, continually developing and improving its service to customers and trading partners with GXS Trading Grid® solutions, including GXS Trading Grid® Messaging Service and GXS B2B Gateway.
   
 TMF Operating
A provider of logistics management services and specialized transport and stock management services, TMF Operating had to develop faster and more efficient data transfer and synchronization capabilities to simplify its system with trading partners, while meeting the constantly changing needs of its burgeoning customer base.
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Financial Services

 Royal Bank of Canada
The Automotive Finance Group at Royal Bank of Canada provides online access to automobile dealers, leasing and daily rental companies. A GXS solution helps RBC offer the manufacturer, the lender and the dealer real-time visibility into the status of the transaction.
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Small Business Customers

 Herman Kay
Located in New York, Herman Kay provides a wide selection of outerwear for women and men. By using Trading Grid Messaging Service and Global Product Catalogue, Herman Kay was able to lower transaction costs, speed communications and increase the number of trading partners with access to its style information.
   
 Monarch Towel Company
Monarch Towel Company is a robe and towel distributor based in New Jersey that offers robes, towels and slippers that combine exacting manufacturing with high-quality materials designed primarily for hotel use. Using Trading Grid Messaging Service, Monarch Towel Company was able to go international by serving as a logistics warehouse for a Brazilian factory.
 
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