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SupplyChainBrain.com  –  Mar 13, 2008
If Supplier Portals Were So Great, Then What Went Wrong?
The first Web-based portals dedicated to enhancing buyer-supplier relationships got an underwhelming reception from the trade community. But the survivors have evolved into networks with real value.
IT Week (WhatPC?)  –  Feb 25, 2008
Piecing together the logistics jigsaw
Fortunately or not, with the internet revolutionising the face of communications and globalisation altering the face of business supply chains as offshored manufacturing boomed, GT Nexus found itself at the heart of some fundamental economic changes.
Tradewinds  –  Feb 22, 2008
One Stop System
If you were a shipper, would you not dream of having a hotline to a superhero of the container world who could sort out all your problems? For a box Batman, you would of course need a Bat-phone. But what if you then needed to contact Superman, Spiderman or the X-Men? It is a tricky problem and, believe it or not, one that exists in the parallel universe of real-life container booking and tracking.
ZDNet  –  Feb 15, 2008
Dark Clouds and Silver Linings
When done right – GT Nexus is my favorite example – many-to-many connectivity is ideal for hosting in the cloud. An integration hub in the cloud lends a cost-effectiveness and level of productivity to complex processes that depend on lots of connectivity – like GT Nexus’ global trade logistics management – that simply cannot be done on premise.
Logistics Management  –  Jan 23, 2008
Logistics technology: New ocean carrier portal deal may help US-EU shippers
GT Nexus announced that it has acquired Metaship AG, a provider of logistics management technology for importers, exporters and third party logistics providers (3PLs). The Metaship team and operations, based in Hamburg Germany, are now part of GT Nexus and serve as the company’s headquarters for Europe.
Baseline Magazine  –  Jan 17, 2008
Halting the Import of Hazardous Goods
"Companies that in seconds can see and track inventory at the SKU level are much better positioned to take on the challenge" of coping with a recall, says Greg Johnsen, executive vice president for marketing at GT Nexus.
Internet Retailer  –  Jan 02, 2008
Long Haul
For retailers, collaboration with carriers has come a long way thanks to the web.
Purchasing  –  Dec 13, 2007
Restoration Hardware Optimizes Ocean Freight Bid Online
...the company has leveraged online ocean bid optimization technology from provider GT Nexus of Alameda, Calif. and says the benefits go beyond improved rates.
Eye for Transport  –  Nov 26, 2007
GT Nexus and Transwide Join Forces
Global trade and logistics portal, GT Nexus, and multi-modal transport execution hub, Transwide, have formed a strategic partnership.
International Freighting Weekly  –  Nov 26, 2007
Portal will be the Platform of Choice
Online shipping portal provider GT Nexus is expecting the services it provides to become essential to shippers once the conference system is abolished.
Chain Store Age  –  Nov 19, 2007
The Amazing Race Made Easy
On-demand technology enables retailers to win at global trade.
Containerisation International  –  Nov 01, 2007
Containerisation International: Del Monte Signs GT Nexus for Global Operations
Del Monte Foods Company, one of the largest suppliers of canned fruit, vegetables, pet foods and snacks in the US, has selected the global shipping portal GT Nexus to serve as its international transport management and shipment visibility platform.
Chain Store Age  –  Sep 05, 2007
Integrating Financial and Physical Supply Chains
Information, product and payment should flow seamlessly between partners.
American Shipper  –  Sep 04, 2007
Change Sweet Change
“The major question that companies have to ask themselves is are they sitting on their hands while a major opportunity sits in front of them.”
Inbound Logistics  –  Sep 2007
Data Fuels the Supply Chain
How do you get quality supply chain data? Start with your technology platform.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive  –  Aug 15, 2007
Geodis Wilson Goes Live on GT Nexus Portal
"With GT Nexus, we are leveraging a system that is already connected to our carrier partners. So instead of embarking on a long, expensive technology project, we did it in a matter of weeks."
Logistics Management  –  Aug 2007
Managing by the numbers
“One of the big areas for shippers continues to be measuring and monitoring partners’ performance,” says Greg Johnsen, co-founder and executive vice president of marketing for GT Nexus
ABF Journal  –  Jun 08, 2007
The Technology Revolution in Global Logistics Will Change Your Business
ABLs could benefit from finding out what’s going on under the hood of the great logistics machine that drives the international movement of goods.
American Shipper  –  May 25, 2007
A New Kind of Internet Banking
GT Nexus seeks to automate financial processes of buying and selling internationally.
Inbound Logistics  –  May 22, 2007
3PLs and Carriers: Desperately Seeking Tech Solutions
"Logistics companies need collaborative solutions -- for example, systems that can handle multiple organizations in the same environment, model their interactions appropriately, and make sure data is not viewed by the wrong party at the wrong time," (GT Nexus) explains.
Logistics Today  –  May 18, 2007
Restoration Hardware To Use GT Nexus Portal
Restoration Hardware Inc. has selected the GT Nexus Trade and Logistics Portal to serve as its global transportation management platform.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive  –  May 11, 2007
Liz Claiborne Selects GT Nexus to Power Global Supply Chain Operating Platform
"We selected GT Nexus because they offer more than a suite of applications. They also have an existing network of providers and data management services bundled into a single, on-demand platform."
ABF Journal  –  May 09, 2007
Liz Claiborne Selects GT Nexus to Power Global Supply Chain Operating Platform
"So much of the hard work of configuring hardware, connecting partners, installing software and mapping data has already been done. We literally hit the ground running from day one."
Supply & Demand Chain Executive  –  Apr 17, 2007
Sears Expands Use of GT Nexus Globally
A leading retailer automates PO distribution, trade document creation and exchange on GT Nexus Global Trade and Logistics Portal.
Automotive Business Review -- USA  –  Apr 17, 2007
GT Nexus Wins Yazaki North America Contract
Yazaki North America, a leading supplier of vehicle power and data solutions to the automotive industry, has selected the GT Nexus Trade and Logistics Portal to power its global inventory visibility and control system.
Logistics Management  –  Apr 10, 2007
GT Nexus Releases “Trade”
GT Nexus Trade aims to give companies, their trading partners, and their banks a single, industry-neutral platform to automate the global “procure-to-pay” process.
Lloyd's List  –  Apr 06, 2007
Smart Money Must Keep an Eye on Smart Technology
In a container shipping context, the pay-as-you-go, totally web-based model used by GT Nexus ensures complete transparency at every stage of the container’s transit from port of origin to final destination.
The Wall Street Journal  –  Mar 21, 2007
GT Nexus Adds Financial Supply Chain Services to Global Trade and Logistics Portal
GT Nexus announced today the release of GT Nexus Trade, an integrated set of trade and financial services delivered "on-demand" over the company's industry-backed global trade and logistics portal.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive  –  Mar 06, 2007
Global Logistics Power Plants
Remember that electricity analogy at the beginning of this story? For global logistics technology, the power plant that can electrify your business already exists.
World Trade  –  Feb 2007
Networked platforms can create collaborative visibility once you conquer a host of data problems.
GT Nexus has focused on data quality “over the last five or six years, enriching our platform with hundreds of industry business rules about specific partners so we can understand the idiosyncrasies of the data that individual partners are sending to the platform.”
Supply & Demand Chain Executive  –  Jan 22, 2007
MOL Customers Gain On-demand Access to Digitized Service Contracts
GT Nexus-powered system enables logistics service provider's clients to see up-to-the-minute rates, surcharges and service terms
IndustryWeek  –  Jan 22, 2007
Global Sourcing: Illusive Profits, Expensive Mistakes
The pitfalls of overseas sourcing: recognizing and managing the real-time cost impacts and financial liabilities of complex global supply chains.
TrafficWorld  –  Jan 15, 2007
A Capital Idea
How about asking: what it is in the supply chain that we do really well? Then you can approach the financial supply chain from that point of view, and figure out how to make it work more efficiently.
Fairplay  –  Dec 07, 2006
Web Portals Power Effeciency
“In our experience, it’s about choosing the right partners”, (GT Nexus) explains. With enhanced data visibility, shippers can make more informed decisions on which supply-chain partners are most predictable, thus decreasing inventory costs.
Trade Winds  –  Nov 24, 2006
Port of Valencia creates cargo information hub
"Poor global-logistics data quality is too complex for any one customer to solve...The solution lies in a shared platform, where all customers share a common set of data-management processes."
Supply & Demand Chain Executive  –  Nov 22, 2006
GT Nexus Beefs up Reporting and Analytics on Global Logistics Portal
Enabler taps MicroStrategy for business intelligence capabilities to let users analyze global supply chains and partner performance
MicroStrategy Press Release  –  Nov 21, 2006
GT Nexus Selects MicroStrategy to Provide Enhanced Reporting and Analytics for its Global Logistics Portal
By embedding MicroStrategy’s business intelligence technology into its portal, GT Nexus enables customers to analyze their global supply chains and the performance of their partners.
Tradewinds  –  Sep 22, 2006
Box-booking portals fight for market share
...shipper-backed system GT Nexus, which is widely accepted by analysts and industry users to provide the most complete, integrated and easy-to-use range of services, has already claimed an ability to work with the top 20 ocean carriers, which together control more than 90% of global container capacity.
Fairplay  –  Sep 21, 2006
GT Nexus predicts web ‘tipping point’
"If a customer elects to build their business around a certain technology platform, their carriers need to find ways to connect with that"
Lloyd's List  –  Aug 17, 2006
The men with their sights on your supply chain
GT Nexus provides a white label version of its system to carriers, allowing them in effect to deploy their own e-commerce system.
Los Angeles Times  –  Jul 24, 2006
Retailers See Trouble on Ports' Horizon
With more detailed port information available more quickly, businesses can better monitor their product shipments, said Greg Johnsen, executive vice president for marketing at Alameda, Calif.-based GT Nexus
Supply & Demand Chain Executive  –  Jul 20, 2006
Record Transportation Bid Activity Seen on Global Logistics Portal
GT Nexus reports more than $3 billion in transportation services contracted with carriers through its portal for 2006 ocean transportation bid season
Traffic World  –  Jul 18, 2006
GT Nexus Activity Soars 150 Percent
Online contracting for transportation services burst through former records with a 150 percent increase in activity during the 2006 bid season
American Shipper  –  Jul 06, 2006
An unusual audit -- one that's welcome
GT Nexus' Web-based ocean freight audit system allows shippers, carriers to resolve billing, service discrepancies.
DC Velocity  –  Jul 2006
Trade Management: It's the way that you use it
"Precisely because we have an integrated network providing physical visibility, we can get into financial visibility," (GT Nexus) says. "It is not a quantum leap."
Supply Chain Manufacturing & Logistics  –  Jun 22, 2006
Shape Up and Ship Out
Since most TMS vendors cut their teeth supporting domestic rail and truck carriers, they only provide limited support for ocean and air carriers. For the latter, you typically need specialists such as GT Nexus
The Economist  –  Jun 15, 2006
The Physical Internet -- Shining Examples
Some companies, such as...GT Nexus...provide specialist web-based platforms capable of doing much of the work for logistics managers using ocean freight. The internet is ideal for this purpose, says Greg Johnsen, of GT Nexus: “It is global, it is always on and you can get to it from almost anywhere.”
Traffic World  –  May 29, 2006
Three Dimensions of Supply Chain Visbility
Importers and exporters must monitor the physical flow of shipments; but they must also monitor the financial flow and the range of documents and data upon which these first two flows rely.
Journal of Commerce  –  May 08, 2006
Plugged In
(Aberdeen Research) said "GT Nexus provides much richer functionality than the other portals"
International Freighting Weekly  –  Apr 26, 2006
Customers Click onto Web Solution
“We’re connected to the top 20 carriers,” says Greg Johnsen, VP marketing and sales. “The shipper or forwarder sees the portal as a connectivity platform for all their partners. The portal becomes the customer’s system.”
Forbes  –  Apr 13, 2006
Mobility In Motion. Globe-Trotting Containers.
Customers, third-party logistics providers, ocean carriers and suppliers have access as needed to the purchase orders, invoices, trade documents and the current data on a shipping container over the GT Nexus Web platform.
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal  –  Mar 30, 2006
GT Nexus Adds Integrated Freight Audit to Global Logistics Portal
The GT Nexus platform delivers an integrated system that automates and streamlines the capture, correction, validation and analysis of global freight charges
DC Velocity  –  Mar 2006
Sea change for TMS
Tackling the transportation portion alone would be no small feat, (GT Nexus) says, given that international contracts, purchasing practices, and fees differ markedly from their domestic counterparts.
Logistics Management  –  Mar 2006
On demand is on the rise
"(GT Nexus) points out that on-demand TMS products aren't limited to the Web, and that the systems can also send and receive electronic messages from both internal systems and those of outside business partners via the Internet. "
DC Velocity  –  Feb 2006
Digital Divide
The Aberdeen study highlights, for example, Williams-Sonoma's selection of GT Nexus' on-demand transportation management software to manage international transportation spending with a closed loop integrating procurement, execution, auditing and freight payment.
American Shipper  –  Feb 2006
CFOs: Get in touch with inner supply chain
The new (GT Nexus) capability gives customers the ability to re-price products, alter promotions, switch future shipments to other modes, re-examine product classifications for customs, reassign future orders to lower cost suppliers, and take other corrective action in the face of unanticipated costs
Supply & Demand Chain Executive  –  Jan 24, 2006
Weyerhaeuser Taps GT Nexus for Global Freight Management
Weyerhaeuser's operations incorporate 11 business units and a network of 43 ocean carriers, as well as a company-owned shipping line.
Containerisation International  –  Nov 2005
Up to standard?
"GT Nexus has taken its platform technology into the larger realm of global transportation and logistics management"
Aberdeen Research  –  Oct 06, 2005
GT Nexus Innovates With Global Trade Costing Tool
With its heritage in logistics network visibility and multi-modal freight contract management, GT Nexus is especially well-positioned to tackle the transportationcosting challenge, which companies identify as their top driver of global costing discrepancies.
Manufacturing Business Technology  –  Oct 01, 2005
Trade document control system lightens the load on goods-shipment processes
Costly delays in global shipments due to trade document snafus may be a thing of the past for those who adopt supply chain infrastructure provider GT Nexus' new global document control system
Frontline Solutions  –  Aug 25, 2005
Procter & Gamble standardizes on GT Nexus hosted software platform
The GT Nexus platform serves as the central system within which the company has standardized its global transportation service agreements, and manages freight rates and service terms for P&G's worldwide business operations.
DC Velocity  –  Jul 01, 2005
All seeing, All knowing
"Xerox, for example, currently uses the GT Nexus platform to share data, including ASNs and status reports, with four international freight forwarders, seven ocean carriers, two customs brokers, domestic third-party logistics providers and multiple carriers"
ComputerWorld  –  Jul 01, 2005
GT Nexus helps importers go paperless
"With this technology, documents are presented, modified and managed electronically. We're working with data -- not paper," she said. "Just as importantly, this system also enforces a security structure that legislates control, and retains a record of document access, change and workflow. That's huge for compliance."
Shippers Today  –  Jul 2005
Portals: An Industry Utility
GT Nexus is seeing many mid-sized and larger freight forwarding companies taking the integration path, connecting their own systems to the platform
IndustryWeek  –  Mar 01, 2005
Cargo Crunch!
"Very few companies have a systemic process surrounding how they manage their global supply chain," concludes ...GT Nexus.
American Shipper  –  Feb 01, 2005
Working smarter with capacity issues?
Information technology systems could make a difference in capacity-constrained operating environment.
Inbound Logistics  –  Jan 01, 2005
Inbound Logistics Magazine: Negotiating Contracts Without Getting Soaked
To stay competitive, companies must continue to optimize all modes of transportation. Here is a look at one particularly complex mode - ocean.
Inbound Logistics  –  Nov 01, 2004
Shipping Spree: Unlocking the Secrets to the Holiday Rush
"KB Toys chose GT Nexus...to manage all cross-border shipments in its global supply chain. The implementation was completed in time to provide the company with end-to-end supply chain visibility for its three-month, pre-Christmas peak season period..."
Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies  –  Oct 01, 2004
Shippers Seek New Strategies for Managing Transportation Procurement
"This is one industry where the customer really is king. Carriers know that the pendulum goes back and forth." - David Adams of GT Nexus
AMR Research  –  Aug 26, 2004
Global Trade Maturing in Time to Support DDSN
"Checking back in with Xerox, it turns out that it took the company only four months using GT Nexus’ on-demand model to begin coordinating the movement of a variety of products across a large global network, including Japan, Asia, North America, Mexico, and Europe."
Industry Week  –  Aug 01, 2004
Tightening Up The Supply Chain
"...logistics portals are increasing in popularity and importance...One such is the GTN Ocean Transportation Portal operated by GT Nexus"
Supply & Demand Chain Executive  –  Jun 17, 2004
Globe Express Services Looks to Improve Ocean Freight Management
"We're automating complex business processes, deploying an online system for two work streams - contract management and shipment execution - that were done manually before"
TrafficWorld  –  May 17, 2004
Supply Chain Disconnect
"At least in our (GT Nexus') environment we are finding integration capability and competency is a huge issue with customers…that doesn't get any easier as companies become more information intensive and supply chains become longer and more extended around the globe"
AMR Research  –  Mar 12, 2004
Supply Chain Integration: It's time to consider XML
Flexibility, speed, and better use of Information Technology (IT) resources make the transition to XML inevitable. The benefits are significant enough to implement without waiting for the creation of industry standards.

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