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GXS Insights: Navigating Cross Border Business Boundaries
GXS industry and technology experts are thought leaders in their fields. They conduct research, determine best practices and share their expertise. GXS maintains INSIGHTS as a service to customers and prospective customers to provide insight on critical business issues and technology. Industry Study Focus on PolandB2B Integration Challenges Facing the Automotive Supplier Community by Mark Morley In 2007, Poland was the second largest producer of cars in Eastern Europe, manufacturing nearly 700,000 vehicles. The State of the Central and Eastern European Automotive Marketby Mark Morley In recent years the automotive industry has been going through a significant globalisation process with once relatively short supply chains being stretched to every corner of the globe. Learn more » 
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The New Europeby Clive Longbottom, a Quocirca Insights Report Creating a viable plan for trading across a dynamic geography As the EU continues to expand, European businesses must look to how they can trade across increasing numbers of regional boundaries, languages, cultures and laws, both within the EU and across the greater Europe. The opportunities are huge – but the problems will daunt many who wish to enter into a Pan-European trading environment. Learn more »
Solving Electronic Mandate Headachesby Malcolm Wheatley For smaller companies, winning business from a large organisation is a prize that offers the opportunity of significant growth. But it’s a prize that comes with an awkward catch. Larger companies usually have their own, very specific, ways of doing business—and increasingly, that involves requiring suppliers to interact with them electronically. For the larger companies in question, the logic is clear. Trading electronically imposes efficiency-boosting standard procedures and processes, and is more productive—and cheaper—than exchanging and processing pieces of paper. Learn more » Global Business
Reverse Globalisationby Mark Morley One minute companies are rushing to globalise their businesses in order to take advantage of manufacturing goods in low cost regions of the world. The next minute companies are reducing their global manufacturing footprint due to the economic downturn in various markets around the world. “Reverse Globalisation” is now the term widely used to describe this effect. Read more » 
Trade Within Europe has Grown Rapidly, Thanks to the Single Market. But Where is it Heading?John Lamb weighs the prospects. Europe is the world’s largest single market thanks to a lengthy and sometime tortuous process of political integration, but those who run Europe’s supply chains still face big challenges. Read more » 
The Single European Payments Area and Cross Border Tradeby Steve Keifer Much of today’s focus on cross-border trade centres upon the growing volumes of inter-continental trade between Europe and Asia. However, a far larger amount of trade occurs between buyers and suppliers within Europe itself. Europe is the world’s largest trade region with $3.65 Trillion in annual trade in 2007 or 31.4% of the worldwide total. Read more » Innovation
Opportunity Knocksby Malcolm Wheatley These are difficult economic conditions. Scan the business pages and it’s almost impossible to escape phrases such as ‘credit crunch’ and ‘downturn’. Nor is this hyperbole: according to accountants Ernst & Young, the number of profit warnings from UK-listed companies in the first three months of 2008 was the highest since 2001. Yet in contrast to 2001, businesses have a new weapon to help protect them from the impact of those adverse economic conditions. The question is—do they realise it? More » 
Fiscal Dematerialisation—Riddled with Regulations, But Enormous RewardsThe widespread adoption of the Internet as a B2B tool has lowered the barriers to entry for electronic trading between buyer and supplier and in parallel, led by member states of the European Union, many countries have developed regulations that will allow companies to completely remove paper from the invoicing process. This is the essence of fiscal dematerialisation which is inherently riddled with regulations, but abounds with enormous rewards. More » 
Ten Forces Transforming Corporate Banking ConnectivityA GXS Market Perspective The past five years have witnessed the emergence of a number of new operational models, regulatory changes and technology paradigms in the corporate treasury and banking sector. The result is radical changes to the structure of treasury functions within multi-national corporations. The changes are also impacting the relationships between corporations and banks banks—both the way in which banking products are selected and the service level expectations treasury organisations hold for financial institutions are evolving. There is also a significant paradigm shift in the technical approaches used to exchange information between corporations and their cash management banks. GXS has compiled a list of the ten primary forces transforming the way in which corporations and banks communicate electronically. Learn more » Executive Dialogue Blogs
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