Spinks Technologies, a specialist in EDI development and training, has announced a new EDI training course to kickoff in November 2011 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The company will train developers on EDI Basics all the way through advanced EDI development and integration utilizing the IBM Sterling Integrator product architecture. Spinks Technologies has been [...]
Yes, EDI can work over the Internet and be just as secure as going over a Value Added Network providing reporting, statistics, and non repudiation and authenticity of the data. How? It’s really not rocket science. It’s done via the AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) secure EDI protocol. I recently had a long discussion with someone [...]
For years, I have seen people in corporations get the delivery of EDI software such as IBM’s Sterling Integrator or even the Trusted Link Enterprise software and simply sit and look at the box. They get the software, unzip it and don’t know what to do after that. Prior to implementing any Sterling Integrator or [...]
In 2004, Spinks Technologies won a contract with Able Laboratories in New Jersey to full automate it’s supply chain, install Oracle Applications, and install Sterling GIS software to replace an old Macola EDI software platform on the PC. Able Laboratories, Inc. was a developer and manufacturer of generic pharmaceutical products in tablet, capsule, liquid and [...]
Sometimes I can’t believe it but I was telling a new client about my road to EDI Integration. I happened to fall into EDI in 1989 when I got a job in Richardson Texas at Rubicon Corporation. At the time, Rubicon Corporation was a competitor to a Laboratory Information System software company called Antrim Corporation [...]
Spinks Technologies has been involved in EDI development and integration since 1990. Not many so called EDI experts offshore can say this. The only thing that offshore companies can say is that they can do your EDI Implementation for cheap. But, the question in Corporate America is this: do you rely on cheap work for [...]
Spinks Technologies is proud to announce a signed contract with a leading San Francisco Bay Area supply chain logistics cloud computing software provider which provides cloud-based supply chain collaboration platform for retailers, manufacturers, exporters, importers, logistics providers, and banks. Spinks Technologies is a recognized expert in EDI architecture, development, and integration and has served Silicon [...]
Getting Purchase Orders from a major retailer like The Home Depot can obviously catapult your business into the stratosphere. The first thing one needs to do is get set up as a Supplier on Home Depot’s Supplier Center web portal. This will enable you to start the EDI enablement process with The Home Depot. Home [...]
It amazes me that corporations never use structured Project Management techniques when it comes to costing out and implementing EDI across their supply chain. CTO’s, VP’s of technology, and CIO’s really need to make a more concerted effort to install and implement these PM tools when implementing EDI especially if you want to control costs. [...]
To truly integrate one’s Supply Chain, you must integrate and see the entire picture from end to end. This is done by knowing the data flow and path from start to finish in it’s entirety. Where does the data originate and what is the ending point of the data. We architect and design Supply Chain [...]