Check out the conversation at http://www.retailwire.com/Discussions/Sngl_Discussion.cfm/12556.

Last week we unveiled research conducted with the Vendor Compliance Federation at their annual event. We studied the entire ASN process. Given the two great opposing forces, globalization-of-supply and localization-of-demand, the shipment advice process has never been more important. GXS Trading Grid volume data shows the dispatch advice, dispatch notice, and advanced ship notice are among the fastest growing B2B processes under adoption.

The research was quite conclusive. Lots of data quality issues. Also, interestingly we learned that the average PO has 4.4 changes. The PO change process is very manual with little to no adoption of the EDI ANSI 860. Also, the research indicated 2-5% of every keystroke in a manual process results in an error.

Definitely review Retail Wire. Great posts from Nikki Baird, Bryan Larkin and other.

The research findings are available at http://www.gxs.com/forms/0711_B4B_wp_VCF.htm.