http://blogs.gxs.com/morleym Accelerating Automotive B2B Integration Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:12:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There was an interesting article over on InformationWeek a few days ago. As you probably know by now, GM along with Ford and other manufacturers are currently trying to find ways to prop up sales of their fuel hungry SUV and pick up trucks.  Due to the high price of ... http://blogs.gxs.com/morleym/2008/06/25/rebuilding-an-oem%e2%80%99s-it-infrastructure/ GXS has B2B solutions to help any automotive company, no matter what their size or where they may be located in the automotive value chain.  A typical representation of the automotive value chain is shown below. But what happens when the customer picks up their new car and six months ... http://blogs.gxs.com/morleym/2008/06/10/serving-the-automotive-aftermarket/ There are three automotive industry ‘mega-trends’ at the moment, firstly a need to improve economy and reduce emissions, secondly a need to improve safety and finally a need to improve ‘consumer connectivity’ to in car entertainment systems.  The last trend is being driven by consumers who are keen to connect ... http://blogs.gxs.com/morleym/2008/05/30/another-global-challenge-begins/ Over the weekend I saw an interesting programme on TV about the levels of Broadband adoption amongst small businesses.  This programme focussed on one particular country where small companies felt their business was suffering due to inadequate high speed internet connections and a communications infrastructure that, in places, was heavily ... http://blogs.gxs.com/morleym/2008/05/19/the-great-broadband-divide/ I am of course referring to the global economy. The banks here in the UK are predicting that we are on the verge of a recession, interest rates are likely to remain at the same level until 2010 and the price of petrol has reached £5 a gallon! Now if you ... http://blogs.gxs.com/morleym/2008/05/15/spiralling-out-of-control/ Now this blog entry is not suppose to be a maths lesson!, I thought it was an opportune moment to review the performance of the North American automotive companies during Q1 and take a quick look at the external influencers that are impacting their recently released quarterly results.  So let’s ... http://blogs.gxs.com/morleym/2008/05/02/analysing-the-north-american-q1-sales-numbers/ Last week I was fortunate to be able to visit China for the first time.  I was presenting at our ASPAC CIO summit in Hangzhou which is about two hours south of Shanghai.  The event brought together about 20 of our key customers in the ASPAC region to allow us ... http://blogs.gxs.com/morleym/2008/04/29/the-importance-of-getting-the-correct-b2b-infrastructure-in-place/ Over the past couple of years there has been a significant convergence between the automotive and high tech industry sectors.  Satellite navigation systems, entertainment systems, mobile phone and iPod integration, today’s consumer is partly helping to drive the convergence of the automotive and high tech industry sectors.  So I thought ... http://blogs.gxs.com/morleym/2008/04/14/b2b-in-the-automotive-and-high-tech-sectors-and-so-the-convergence-begins/ Many executives in the automotive industry were glad to see the back of 2007. This was a year which saw immense change within the automotive industry. Slow growth in most markets, numerous acquisitions and mergers, companies going out of business and significant workforce reductions in both the OEMs and their ... http://blogs.gxs.com/morleym/2008/03/28/it-priorities-for-the-automotive-industry-in-2008/ OK, well as the 2007 vehicle production figures are starting to filter out I thought it was time to provide a quick review of the production performance of the established and emerging automotive markets around the world. 2007 was quite a turbulent year for the automotive industry and there were ... http://blogs.gxs.com/morleym/2008/03/27/performance-of-established-and-emerging-automotive-markets-in-2007/