Avicon Announces Business-to-Business - B2B - Integration Practice.NATICK, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 1999-- New Practice Led by EC and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. Experts Focuses on Integrating the Virtual Organization for Increased Performance and Profitability Avicon, the eValue Chain consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , today announced its Business-to-Business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) Integration practice, which focuses on executing solutions that integrate processes and technology across business partner relationships for improved performance and profitability. Avicon's B2B practice delivers quality Electronic Commerce B2B solutions as a fundamental component of all eValue Chain initiatives. Electronic Commerce and EDI authorities, Susan Rapp Susan Rapp von der Lippe (born July 5, 1965) is a competitive breaststroke swimmer from the United States who won the silver medal in the 200m breaststroke at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. She is a graduate of Stanford University. and Timothy Cronin serve as directors of Avicon's B2B practice. Cendant Corporation's Direct Marketing Division contracted with Avicon to improve their existing process in addition to migrating to a new order processing system. "The holiday season is important to our business and we had to find knowledgeable assistance to help us implement the results we needed quickly," said Bill Alletzhauser, former EDI manager for Cendant's Membership Services. Avicon's initiatives improved performance and customer service. Cendant's order fulfillment Order fulfillment (in BE also: order fulfilment) is in the most general sense the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery of a product to the customer. Sometimes Order fulfillment process is now a seamless operation providing excellent delivery of goods to the customer. "Without Avicon's recommendations and assistance, we would not have been able to achieve such dramatic results in such a short period of time," continued Alletzhauser. Electronic Commerce and EDI Experts Spearhead B2B Practice Ms. Rapp's experience includes planning and implementation of Electronic Commerce systems and services, development of strategic plans and marketing materials, and the management of Electronic Commerce teams to develop new processes. She has worked with a variety of industry sectors including automotive, petroleum, chemical, grocery, manufacturing and government. She is a Treasury Management Association (TMA TMA Turnaround Management Association TMA Texas Medical Association TMA Transportation Management Association TMA Training and Management Assistance (a component of OHRD, which is a component of OWR) TMA Tooling & Manufacturing Association ) permanent Certified Cash Manager (CCM CCM Contemporary Christian Music CCM Critical Care Medicine CCM County College of Morris (New Jersey) CCM Chama Cha Mapinduzi (political party, Tanzania) CCM CORBA Component Model ) and has served as the American National Standards Institute See ANSI. (body, standard) American National Standards Institute - (ANSI) The private, non-profit organisation (501(c)3) responsible for approving US standards in many areas, including computers and communications. ANSI is a member of ISO. ASC ASC Ambulatory surgery center, see there X12 Committee vice chair and the Finance Subcommittee chair and vice chair. Ms. Rapp's articles have been published in many trade journals and she speaks regularly at a variety of industry conferences on the subjects of EDI and Electronic Commerce. Mr. Cronin has over twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. of experience in distributed information systems implementation and operations. For the past fifteen years Mr. Cronin has led Electronic Commerce technology projects in the high technology, semiconductor, retail and apparel industries. Mr. Cronin led Electronic Commerce strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. , cost justification, software selection, and implementation projects for a number of Fortune 500 companies. He has also been the project manager and senior technical lead providing hands-on installation, configuration and live implementation of Electronic Commerce subsystems for major corporations. He has been active in Electronic Commerce standards bodies at industry, national and international levels and has written a number of articles on the subjects of EDI, Financial EDI and the future of Electronic Commerce. Improved Customer Service and Profitability "In today's virtual organizations, strong connections and processes linking an extended organization's trading partners are critical to efficient order fulfillment," said Ann Grackin, executive vice president of Avicon. "In order to deliver the correct product on time to its customers, an organization must be able to skillfully and rapidly pass information, product and cash between its trading partners. Avicon's B2B practice helps organizations develop and implement effective business processes for improved customer service and financial performance." Avicon offers a comprehensive suite of services to drive trading partnering integration initiatives: -0-
- an eValue Chain Roadmap to help organizations review existing
operations to evaluate efficiencies, practices and opportunities
for improvement;
- a Solution Blueprint that includes a review of a specific process
needing improvement and development of an implementation plan for
the improvements;
- the third component is Solution Delivery, which implements the
recommended solution and ensures that the maximum value is
realized across the eValue Chain.
About Avicon Avicon is a strategy and information technology consulting Information technology consulting (IT consulting or business and technology services) is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives. firm that helps companies build eValue Chain solutions. Its approach is to provide clients with leading edge knowledge in eBusiness, value chain integration, and information technology implementation. Avicon's consulting staff con·sult·ing staff n. The body of specialists affiliated with a hospital who serve in an advisory capacity to the attending staff. is made up of seasoned practitioners who have provided process and technology solutions to companies leading the charge in eValue Chain integration. Avicon's services include design and implementation of value chain strategies, trading partner collaboration and packaged application implementation and integration. Headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, Avicon is on the web at http://www.avicon.com. |
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