This section of the microsite highlights a number of companies that have successfully deployed EDI solutions from GXS. The first section highlights how small to medium-sized companies have taken the first steps to implementing an EDI solution. The following case studies illustrate how EDI has allowed these companies to begin trading electronically with their respective customers and highlights the business benefits gained.

As a fresh produce importer, grower and food ingredient supplier, J.O. Sims serves major retailers, fresh produce markets and food manufacturers. The U.K. company needed a system that would automatically handle orders, but that would be easy to learn and use.
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A specialty tools and equipment manufacturer responded to a customer's request for EDI, and found even more advantages in its own operations.
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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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Organic Farm Foods

With a policy of ongoing investment in IT, and constant focus on ways to cut costs and improve efficiency across the supply chain, U.K. based Organic Farm Foods is a pioneer in technology initiatives within the fresh produce industry.
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G.H Meiser

Like other smaller companies, this manufacturer of precision gauges found its customers increasingly interested in receiving documents via EDI, yet each customer had unique requirements.
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The following case studies focus on companies who are more global in nature; they illustrate how they have successfully deployed EDI to allow them to manage their supply chains around the world. The case studies also highlight the benefits of integrating with back-office systems to provide a truly integrated EDI system. Even though some of these case studies show how complex EDI systems can become, it is important for the smaller companies to understand how they might fit into a large global company’s supply chain and how they must adhere to various industry standards in order to conduct business with them.

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wholly owned by the UK Government, Royal Mail has annual sales in excess of eight billion pounds and delivers some 82 million items to 27 million addresses each day. Integrated communications from GXS are key to its success.
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WH Smith is one of the UK's largest retailers, with 543 high street stores and 203 retail units in 129 airports and train stations. WH Smith introduced GXS Managed Services because it helped increase the speed at which the business could operate, streamlining and enhancing services in a number of operational areas.
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JC Penney Company Inc.

One of the US’s largest department store, drugstore and catalogue retailers, JC 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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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.
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