• Product*Insight - Web Based Executive Dashboard. Provides insight into supply chain activity by displaying and analyzing electronic product movement activity, forecast, order, inventory and shipment information.

• e*Buy - Web Based B2B Electronic Catalog Solution. Solution for manufacturers and wholesalers that desire to eliminate manual and paper orders. e*Buy’s custom catalog integrates with your existing applications and ERP solutions.

Welcome New Customers

Arbitech, LLC
MOL America
123EDI, Inc.
Creative Systems Corporation
Dabar Company
Hercules Forwarding, Inc.
Karate Depot
TAB Products Co. LLC
Omar Medical Supplies Inc.
Paula G. Inc.

Digital Movers Launches New Website

Our commitment to accuracy, innovation, and collaboration guides us as we continue to expand and improve our services. As part of that improvement, we are pleased to announce the launch of our new website.

We've enhanced the look, feel, navigation, and functionality of our site to serve you better. These changes will make it easier for our colleagues and clients to access information and online services. In addition, we hope that the new site will give you a better sense of who we are and an understanding of how we can help you run your business.

EasyLink Services Corporation specializes in transaction delivery and management services for business customers in key global markets. They are a leading provider of services that power the exchange of information between enterprises, their trading communities and their customers.

EasyLink facilitates over 800,000 transactions each business day, which they estimate represents over $200 billion in goods and services annually for their customers. Serving over 20,000 companies, including over 60 of the Fortune 100, they help their customers do business more efficiently by automating their transaction delivery and management processes. EasyLink's networks enable transactions that are integral to the movement of money, materials, products and people in the global economy, such as insurance claims, trade and travel confirmations, purchase orders, invoices, shipping notices and funds transfers, among many others. Their customers become more competitive because they provide them with the most secure, efficient, reliable and flexible means of conducting business electronically.

There’s a phenomenon occurring in IT that is being touted as new, yet I realize it’s something Digital Movers has been doing for decades. It’s called Software as a Service (SaaS). Simply put, it’s the concept of renting IT hardware and software applications versus buying them. We’ve done it with EDI services (our flagship Host*EDI service is one example). More recently, “owners” of software products (software developers such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, etc) who have typically sold “shrink- wrapped” software, now have offerings that let you “rent” application software (and the hardware that it runs on) instead of buying it. And they “host” the application(s) on their hardware, in their data centers, so you don’t have to. They worry about upgrades, data backup, hardware outages, etc. For the end-user, there’s usually no upfront capital investment and most vendors charge for the services used on a monthly, per seat (number of users) basis. When you analyze it, there’s some great advantages to this approach.

Let’s take a typical ERP system. A business needs to do due diligence to acquire the right application, buy the hardware to run it on, migrate from what they may already have, get a technical staff to operate it, support the application with patches & upgrades, train and support the users, provide for backup of data, provide for a redundant processing platform (in case of power outages, hardware failure, terrorist attacks, etc). When you add up all these costs, letting a company provide all of this as a “service” (basically in a hosted environment), makes both economic and practical sense. You get a better product, faster in implementation and cheaper to use. Digital Movers will begin offering several “hosted” applications in the near future, tied (of course) to our E-Commerce/EDI offerings. Renting (alias “Outsourcing”) may well be the new IT Paradigm.

In this issue we’re previewing our new Alliance Partner. Easylink Global Services (previously AT&T Easylink) has partnered with Digital Movers and made us their Authorized Reseller for Value Added Network (VAN) Services. EasyLink's IP EDI Service is a reliable, scalable, feature-rich, and flexible platform that allows our customers to leverage their existing IP infrastructure and connect to any electronic trading partner regardless of how they transmit and receive their EDI traffic. Digital Movers purchases large blocks traffic and passes discounts along to our customers. For Tier 1 VAN services, with seamless Gateways to all other Vans, give our sales department a call. You’ll be extremely pleased with the pricing.

Recently, we had another addition to our staff. Al Weis joins us as Senior Sales Associate. Al has been in the Value Added Network business for the past 25 years, selling for GXS and ICCNET. He’s a seasoned veteran in the transportation area and we’re fortunate to have him join the team. When you talk to him, please join us in welcoming him aboard.

In July we also had an additional reason to celebrate; we just processed twelve and a half million transactions!! We want to extend a very large ‘Thank you’ to our loyal customers, many of whom have been with us for many years. We’ll continue to work hard to earn your business every day and provide you with the best in E-Commerce services and support.

As always, please fee free to email me your comments or thoughts at kkonikowski@dmovers.com.

If you want to view the retailers that we have set up for you as a customer, after logging into Insight, click on “Trading Partnerships”. The list provides all the document setups for the trading partners that you are doing EDI with through Digital Movers. This list can be copied and pasted to an Excel spreadsheet for easier viewing and adjusting to your specifications.

After logging into Insight, on the right side on the screen is a list of sites that can be helpful and useful, including the pressroom websites for major retailers. Also, there are links that are helpful in researching the Bar Code Label, GTIN, VICS Bill of Lading as well as a list of SCAC codes which is used by carriers. Most recently added is the United Nations Location Codes website.

Digital Movers has added another EDI document type to their arsenal, it is the Lockbox transaction set (an EDI 823.)

Do your customers mail payments to you? Are your customers dispersed across a region or the country? Do you hold checks over a day or two because your staff doesn't have the time to process them? If so, you may want to consider the benefits of an automated lockbox processing service. The lockbox transaction is created by your lockbox bank and contains your lockbox deposit records. You now have the option of receiving this data electronically.

Using lockbox banking is a cash flow improvement technique in which you have your customers' payments delivered to a special post office box instead of your business address. Automating the lockbox transaction eliminates manual in-house processing. It is expensive to process payments manually. Opening the mail, keying the remitted items and going to the bank takes time and can be risky. And there are the inevitable keying mistakes that take time and resources to find and correct.

What can Lockbox Banking do for you?

*Faster access to your funds.

*More timely receivables information.

*Customized Remittance Processing.

*Greater Remittance Processing.

*More Efficient use of your office Staff.

As with any transaction that you trade, the Lockbox transaction can be viewed by using Insight and/or be sent to you in your flat files.

If you would like to learn more or inquire on the Lockbox transaction set, please contact EC Support.

Next article, Purchase Order Changes.