April 2010 - This year’s GS1 UK Annual Conference took place at Leicester City Football club on April 22nd. The conference, in partnership with Retail Technology Magazine, hosted an exciting line up of speakers from Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Amazon, World Duty Free, the IGD and many more. They shared their experiences, tips and forecasts on how to achieve a more efficient supply chain with GS1 standards in the retail, foodservices and healthcare sectors.
This was an opportunity to learn from some of the world’s leading supply chain practitioners and improve supply chain strategy. There were sessions providing informative developments on how GS1 standards are used to reap benefits in the real world as well as hands-on demonstrations of the latest supply chain solutions from leading Solution Providers.
December 2009 - Volvo Group Europe have informed their suppliers that, over the next 12 months, they will be replacing all EDI communication using ISDN and X.25 with the Internet-based communication protocol OFTP2.
Data Interchange can support you with everything you will need to safely manage this migration. Our ODEX software has full support for the OFTP2 protocol - indeed, Data Interchange played a significant part in the development of OFTP2 and is therefore ideally placed to offer support to all suppliers affected by this change.
For existing ODEX users, we recommend an upgrade to the latest version of the software. This is available to download from here, using your current details.
For new customers, please contact us to discuss your requirements.
Both new and existing customers will require a digital certificate from ODETTE (the standards body responsible for the OFTP2 protocol). You can find out more about certificates here, or contact us with any questions.
October 2009 - With a history of providing EDI software and services to the Ford Motor Company for over 20 years, Data Interchange fully understands the demands of, and requirements for, the provision of secure and reliable EDI services linking suppliers to Ford.
The purchase of JLR by TATA, in March 2008, and the appointment of a new EDI service provider to manage EDI supplier communications, will impact JLR suppliers in different ways.
Data Interchange recognises, particularly in the current challenging economic environment, how important it is that suppliers can have confidence in the stability and certainty of key operational processes.
As JLR migrate to a new system, Data Interchange aims to significantly reduce the risks from the migration and provide JLR suppliers with certainty around continuity of service. Data Interchange is working with JLR suppliers to establish EDI communication links through DINET. These suppliers have identified that by using DI’s DINET service, they are assured of a reliable, managed connection to JLR.
The diagram below illustrates the solution DI is able to offer.
If you would like to explore how Data Interchange can similarly help you, please contact us.