http://www.gxs.com/insights/ GXS Insights: Navigating Cross Border Business Boundaries en-us Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gxs_insights/~3/bXCpf-lVW9k/0809_NewEU.htm 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. Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT http://www.gxs.com/insights/strategy_execution/0809_NewEU.htm http://www.gxs.com/insights/strategy_execution/0809_NewEU.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gxs_insights/~3/YMTgwVvD1CM/0809_Elec_Mandate.htm Meeting the data interchange requirements of larger customers can be stressful and costly. It doesn't have to be like that. Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT http://www.gxs.com/insights/strategy_execution/0809_Elec_Mandate.htm http://www.gxs.com/insights/strategy_execution/0809_Elec_Mandate.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gxs_insights/~3/GqlefIlbzMA/0809_TradeEU.htm 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. Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT http://www.gxs.com/insights/global_business/0809_TradeEU.htm http://www.gxs.com/insights/global_business/0809_TradeEU.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gxs_insights/~3/RGNcZVBddRk/0809_Single_Euro.htm Much of today's focus on cross-border trade centers 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. Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT http://www.gxs.com/insights/global_business/0809_Single_Euro.htm http://www.gxs.com/insights/global_business/0809_Single_Euro.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gxs_insights/~3/AlCKI_9Hzvw/0809_Opportunity_Knocks.htm 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. Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT http://www.gxs.com/insights/innovation/0809_Opportunity_Knocks.htm http://www.gxs.com/insights/innovation/0809_Opportunity_Knocks.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gxs_insights/~3/m7PJhe6nQRw/0809_Fiscal_Dematerialisation.htm The 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 dematerialization which is inherently riddled with regulations, but abounds with enormous rewards. Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT http://www.gxs.com/insights/innovation/0809_Fiscal_Dematerialisation.htm http://www.gxs.com/insights/innovation/0809_Fiscal_Dematerialisation.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gxs_insights/~3/h8U-7jVELhI/0809_Ten_Forces.htm 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 organizations 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. Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT http://www.gxs.com/insights/innovation/0809_Ten_Forces.htm http://www.gxs.com/insights/innovation/0809_Ten_Forces.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gxs_insights/~3/_fczUuGKcXY/0809_Focus_on_Poland.htm B2B Integration Challenges Facing the Automotive Supplier Community Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT http://www.gxs.com/insights/industry_studies/0809_Focus_on_Poland.htm http://www.gxs.com/insights/industry_studies/0809_Focus_on_Poland.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gxs_insights/~3/i8ohG5YafNU/0809_State_of_EU.htm 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. Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT http://www.gxs.com/insights/industry_studies/0809_State_of_EU.htm http://www.gxs.com/insights/industry_studies/0809_State_of_EU.htm