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 [...]
I was in a meeting with Oracle leaders the other day and they firmly believe that their SOA product architecture is the wave of the future. They believe so much so that they’ve all but discontinued the Oracle EC Gateway product architecture which was leveraged and based upon EDI standards which I worked on for [...]
Spinks Technologies recently stood up a complete Centralized Return to Vendor process at The Home Depot EDI Supplier Center. The problem: Prior to implementing a centralized return to vendor process, customers would buy products at their local Home Depot store and if they had to return the product for any reason, they would go to [...]