Custom Supply Chain Managed Services

Control costs and improve efficiencies in your extended supply chain

Custom Supply Chain Managed Services from Verizon Business combine the global reach and security of the Verizon Business IP network with tailored supply chain services-enabling you to increase control over your supply chain networks, streamline inter-business transactions and improve collaboration with your global trading partners.

Unique configurations to meet your needs Custom Supply Chain Managed Services, powered by GXS*, represent a comprehensive and automated business-to-business supply chain solution that can be configured to meet your unique supply chain management needs.

Covers day-to-day management functions These services encompass the day-to-day management of your technical infrastructure including systems health monitoring, data backup, network management, systems administration, database management, and application support.

Supply chain professionals manage larger tasks Supply chain professionals assigned to your company manage all data mapping and translation tasks, oversee change management and issue resolution with your community, and proactively troubleshoot and reprocess document errors.

End-to-end solution Custom Supply Chain Managed Services provide end-to-end transactional business processing by supporting three broad supply chain areas:

• Community Management services support the various steps necessary to set up and maintain a world-class business-to-business program including defining trading partner technical capabilities; determining document formats and specifications; setting up and testing connections to the Trading Grid**, and more.
• Infrastructure Management services facilitate the process of building and managing the supply chain infrastructure including performance of all necessary setup, administration, and testing procedures; production of scheduled and critical map changes; and development, implementation and enforcement of established network security standards.
• Operational Management services enable reliable and secure exchange of critical business documents using a single connection including any-format-to-any-format data translation, native support of industry standards (such as EDI, ANSI or EDIFACT, Internet EDI, AS2, Rosetta Net, and EAN-UCC XML), data validation, 24x7 business process monitoring, and more.

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*Verizon Business is teaming with GXS to provide these services. GXS is considered an industry leader and visionary for Integration Services, with strengths that include its large and unmatched global presence, and its Trading Grid strategy and platform.

**GXS Trading Grid is one of the world's largest high-performance integration services platforms that allows you to integrate with trading partners around the world, no matter their size, location, language, or technical capabilities.