E-Commerce EDI Industry Perspectives
Growth in EDI OutsourcingWindows vs. Open Source
Outsourcing vs. Offshoring
Outsourcing isn't Offshoring
Outsourcing isn't Offshoring
If you've read "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman, you know that there is a difference between Offshoring and Outsourcing.If you haven't read "The World is Flat" By Thomas L. Friedman yet, you're probably the only business person who hasn't. It's been 14 months on the BusinessWeek Best-Seller List and is still number 1 this week.
In fact - Thomas Friedman even names the rise of Offshoring and Outsourcing as two of the ten distinct reasons the world has become flat.
Friedman's list of "flatteners" includes the fall of the Berlin Wall; the rise of Netscape and the dotcom boom that led to a trillion dollar investment in fiber optic cable; the emergence of common software platforms and open source code enabling global collaboration; and the rise of outsourcing, offshoring, supply chaining and insourcing. Friedman says these flatteners converged around the year 2000, and "created a flat world: a global, web-enabled platform for multiple forms of sharing knowledge and work, irrespective of time, distance, geography and increasingly, language."Many businesses have found that outsourcing their EDI is a huge value to them. We're NOT talking about offshoring your EDI, but simply outsourcing to a US company where people actually answer the phone to solve the problem. EDI can be complicated. If it is not the core competency of your IT team, your company may find hidden expenses like fines and late fees. If you are still doing EDI in house and not outsourcing it, you should review the EC/EDI value calculator. Outsourcing EDI (especially with a company who provides EDI services from a location on shore between Cleveland and Akron Ohio) can be a real value to your company's bottom line and a perfect solution to an ongoing challenge.
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