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NEECOM Agenda

Annual Fall Conference with Vendor Exhibits

Thursday, October 13^th, 2016

The Value of EDI Leaders: Empower Your Company to Win Big           

Rosemary Piraino, Business Development Manager, Adept Engineering Solutions, Inc.

EDI leaders, let’s look at your value in your company and the potential ways you can drive more corporate success.  EDI Professionals are highly regarded and hard-to-find. We’ll look at employment statistics and consider your future job prospects.  In particular, how can you step beyond your traditional EDI role and influence areas such as Business Intelligence, Corporate Systems Integration and Omni-Channel Data Initiatives.

Building a Cloud B2B/E-Commerce App on Your Terms

Steve Davis, Chief Technology Officer, Four51, Inc.

It is well established that companies must enter the digital age to maintain and grow their business. If we all accept that “software is eating the world” and every business needs to think of themselves more like software firms then the choices of their technology becomes the leading challenge. The opportunity to own their own commerce application introduces the flexible and nimble capability to adapt to market changes and rapidly address the needs of their buyers. In this talk we’ll cover how the API economy delivers on these promises and why experienced software developers want to work with these tools.

File Governance – Bringing Sanity to the Chaos

Mark Denchy, VP Business Partners, North America , Primeur

 File Governance is key to manage the increasing flow of information from emerging technologies like Hybrid & Cloud Integration, API Management and IoT.

In this session you will learn why File Governance is gaining momentum and becomes critical for both IT and Business Users to maintain end-to-end visibility, control and compliance of data.

• Common Governance/Use Cases Requirements
• Learn how to address File Governance challenges
• How to avoid major pitfalls to be successful

Off-Purpose EDI Documents – Extracting More Value From Your System

Rick Flaute, Director of Sales and Marketing, Edict Systems

In the early days of EDI it was a strategic advantage.  EDI provided massive cost savings over standard manual processing of business transaction documents.   Today EDI has become a commodity in many industries.  Invention and innovation can create the advantage, but more often competitive advantage can be derived by finding new ways of using existing technology and infrastructure to dramatically increase the increase the value of these systems.

Do You Know How Much It Costs To Process Your Customer Related Orders?  A Case Study of Creativeness and Ingenuity in Streamlining the Order Entry Process

Steve Hatajlo, President & CEO, Faxinating Solutions

Steve Hatajlo will present some background information on current trends in manual processing of Customer Orders and then showcase a Customer Case Study detailing ROI, process improvement and customer satisfaction results

How to Avoid Chargebacks Before They Occur

Jacques Vigneault, Chief Sales Officer, DI Central

We will be discussing how to avoid costly and margin-draining chargebacks if you are a vendor and manage outliers if you are a buyer.  There is a way to prevent violations of buyers’ specific business rules and to give clear visibility of your organization’s entire EDI landscape.  We will be providing tips on getting supply chain operations in gear, and examples of companies (before and after scenarios) who have taken advantage of our tips.

Coping with Multiple Integration Technologies

Barry Sponsler, Senior Solutions Architect, CLEO Communications, Inc.

Due to a constantly changing business environment, key customer demands, tight budgets and technical staffing issues, many companies now find themselves with a patchwork B2B and application integration infrastructure. Coping with the maintenance of multiple integration technologies can present a serious challenge to your IT team as well as having a negative impact on business operations, agility, and cost. Find out how your company can develop a comprehensive strategy to implement a modernized, consolidated approach to support your current and future B2B and application integration requirements.

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NEECOM AWARDS

This year we are featuring a new opportunity for special recognition within the NEECOM community. We are seeking applications/entries for two distinct awards to be presented to members or companies that work with the NEECOM community.

These awards include:

NEECOM OUTSTANDING MEMBER OF THE YEAR – 2016

Tell us about how you promote NEECOM and bring in new members and/or attendees to our Spring and Fall Events.

NEECOM – 2016 EC/EDI SOLUTION OF THE YEAR AWARD.

Congratulations to Logicbroker for winning the Annual NEECOM EC/EDI Solution of the Year Award for 2015 !!! Their product, called NetSuite was recognized for helping Candy.com integrate their trading partners . For more information you can visit logicbroker.com

Tell us about your company’s OR your customer’s recent EDI/B2B/EC solution implementation and the benefits that they bring to the partnership and trading community. The winner will be invited to present their case study at the May 2017 NEECOM Conference.

Both awards will be presented in October 2016 at the Fall event.

Click on the links below to be redirected to our PDF award applications.

Email the applications or additional questions to info@neecom.org using the subject

‘NEECOM AWARDS’

NEECOM EC-EDI Solution of the Year 2016

NEECOM Member of the Year Award 2016