The Generix Group aims to assist its customers with their efficiency and commercial differentiation needs. The Generix Collaborative Business ranges fit into this approach, in particular the Generix Collaborative Infrastructure, through which all Generix and IT market solutions become communicative and collaborative.
The GCI range is a new generation of integration and collaboration gateway capable of unifying all B2B, A2A, Portal, e-invoicing projects, etc. and providing the following advantages:
Improving the company's administrative productivity
The Generix Collaborative Infrastructure range solutions are intended to optimise the company's sales, logistic and financial processes. They offer dematerialisation of paper documents and enable reactive collaboration with the company's customer and supplier partners. By interfacing their information systems, companies can share reliable and up-to-date product information, improve goods receipt and optimise stock management, trace products, limit disputes, etc. Numerous studies have demonstrated significant savings, for example a drop from 65 to 10€ Excl. VAT for the management of each product record, a 50% reduction in invoice control costs with GCI Invoice Manager, or savings of 30% in order processing.
Management of business processes and indicators
Company processes have become increasingly complex and rapid. They regularly call upon ecosystem partners: goods manufacturers, outsourced warehouses, carriers, marketing service providers, etc. the Generix Collaborative Infrastructure range allows business process modelling, execution and control. Users have access to key data concerning their activity: order amounts, logistic shortages, invoicing disputes, etc. They make decisions based on reliable and aggregated real-time information.
Solution rationalisation
Over the years, most organisations have doubled their integration solutions according to user projects, technological opportunities, customer pressure, etc. It is not uncommon to count up to ten fragmented solutions within an information system (EDI, FTP interfaces, specific interfaces, ETL, EAI, BPM, etc.) that become virtually unusable. With its Generix Collaborative Infrastructure range, Generix Group proposes a unique solution for pragmatic integration solutions in B2B or A2A environments. This range offers the possibility of device rationalisation to better control and secure flows, accelerate roll-out, increase agility, reduce the TCO (operation, maintenance, infrastructure, etc.), focus internal skills on a single technology, etc. This opportunity can also be combined with function outsourcing to an SaaS service GCI on demand.
Reduction of B2B/A2A interface costs
While the implementation of EDI, B2B and A2A interfaces is a requirement for each company, the implementation and operating costs of these interfaces are extremely variable from one solution to another. The Generix Collaborative Infrastructure platform was created with a rapid return on investment in mind and a pragmatic approach. The development teams regularly assess the impact of new technologies and standard on our customers' use of our integration solutions. Technological choices are always considered in light of their ease of use, productivity, robustness and maintainability. Compared to other solutions, our customers thus achieve considerable cost reductions, from 1to 10 during interface development, roll-out and maintenance.
B2B roll-out efficiency
The returns on investment for B2B integration or collaboration projects are governed by the roll-out of exchanges with the ecosystem. Many companies fail to achieve their objectives due to lack of method, tools or means. Some spend up to 30 person-days per interface/partner. An historic player in the roll-out of EDI/B2B exchanges, Generix Group offers a community roll-out platform GCI Community Management that accelerates the roll-out process while reducing costs and associated time frames. The secret behind this is the Web mode collaborative solution that automates most tasks usually performed manually by companies: repository input, functional tests, campaign management, specifications distribution, etc.
Focusing efforts on one's business and outsourcing integration
The integration field is characterised by the complexity and diversity of exchange standards, communication protocols and associated legislations. Moreover, these elements vary according to the involved sectors and countries, but also change with computer technology upgrades. It is costly for a company to maintain internal skills and tools to meet these constraints. For this reason, since 1999, Generix Group has offered the GCI On demand service, that provides its users with online access to the best B2B/A2A technologies in a high service level environment, and consumption invoicing. This is a major model shift for the company and represents an opportunity to make significant savings, associated with enhanced B2B efficiency and capacity.
