The enrolment of EDI partners is a complex and multi-step task: qualification of parties, exchange of specifications, fastidious testing, certification, release, etc., frequently performed manually.
In order to face this challenge, Generix Group designed a roll-out management platform that revolutionises previous practices: GCI Community Management.
GCI Community Management is designed to accelerate the roll-out of B2B communities by automating most steps via an online collaborative service between the project owner and its suppliers. The gains are immediate: increased number of interfaced partners, reduced complexity, reduce roll-out costs and times.
During design, GCI Community Management benefited from Generix Group' experience in B2B partner roll-out. Since 1996, Generix Group has supported the major of project owners in their EDI paperless campaigns.
The main features offered by the platform are as follows
- Administration of the repository of B2B partners:
- Roll-out campaign management: information, distribution, reminders,
- The workflow accompanying each wave of roll-outs
- Document and data sharing: specifications, test plans, FAQs, etc.
- Functional self-testing of EDI/XML messages
- Self-tests between transport platforms: EDIINT AS2 for example
- Real-time reporting on the status of each roll-out project
- Synchronisation of parameters with your EDI/B2B platform
- A hotline provided by Generix Group to assist platform users
Several companies thus significantly improved the rate and efficiency of their roll-out on several types of project: dematerialised invoice, new PRICAT message version, dispatch note receipt, RVA to AS2 migration, certificate e-invoicing modifications, etc.
GCI Community Management is an on demand service sold as part of the Generix GCI on demand range.
