AdvanceFirst Technologies the most forward thinking EDI solution provider in the market today has moved into the EDI Consulting arena, producing four business focussed EDI Return on Investment (ROI) consultancy packages.

These EDI consulting packages are something we have started offering our clients recently to allow them to attach real value to our companies core services such as EDI Outsourcing (EDI Managed Services) and the new Business Intelligence system called Trading Intelligence at AdvanceFirst as it produces KPIs for clients based on Transactional Data.

We feel that before any client can assess how beneficial these services can be to their business it is important they have a clear understanding of the business ROI. These packages are aimed at allowing our clients to make a sensible strategic decisions such as whether or not to Outsource their EDI, based on a sound understanding of the multitude of benefits to be gained. In some cases we can undertake these studies free of charge.

Peter Thomas Managing Director AdvanceFirst Technologies

Conducting business electronically can deliver huge benefits to our clients, both in terms of cutting cost and improving performance. Industry data suggests that each time a paper document is touched in a supply chain process, the cost per document is as high as 60. Conducting the same process electronically could cost as little as 30 pence per document.

However, many companies have not fully utilised their existing investment in e-Business. Of the 430 billion documents processed every year by the global marketplace, less than 1% is conducted electronically. The remainder is conducted by expensive, inflexible, error ridden and manual mechanisms such as fax, postal mail or even telephone.

AdvanceFirst have designed these EDI consultancy packages to help businesses identify and realise the benefits of improving their supply chains through the exploitation of the latest EDI technologies (still the best medium for handling structured data and growing at 20% per annum).

Business Intelligence Return on Investment Work-Out

Understand the power of integrating disparate data sources and empowering users and senior management to leverage the information (Business Intelligence) that can be delivered to them in a highly visual and interactive format. Business Intelligence creates knowledge in the supply chain by integrating business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C) and application-to-application (A2A) communications.

This ROI Work-Out gives you all you need to justify your investment in Business Intelligence.

EDI Return on Investment Work-Out

Understand the latest developments in B2B electronic trading. Develop a plan to exploit your existing B2B infrastructure to deliver maximum benefits to your business.

Business-to-Business E-Commerce Return on Investment Review

As B2B gets more complex it needs to be evaluated in better ways. This ROI study gives you all you need to justify your investment in B2B on both the demand and supply side of your business.

Outsourced B2B ROI Review

This study will help balance the hard costs, operational factors, development opportunities and softer policy issues raised by outsourcing on both the demand and supply side of your business.