This Week in IDEA | June 13, 2007

New IDEA Customer: American Polywater Corporation

American Polywater Corporation, a manufacturer from Stillwater, MN, became an IDEA customer on June 7, 2007. Founded in 1973, American Poylwater specializes in pulling lubes, cleaners, and other specialty cleaners. They serve the telephony and power utility markets, general electrical trades, CATV, MRO industrial, and data communications markets in over fifty countries worldwide. They will be providing their product and pricing information directly into the Industry Data Warehouse (IDW2) and they will be taking advantage of the cost saving features and reliability of the Industry Data Exchange (IDX2). Visit the American Polywater Corp. Website for more information.

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New IDEA Affiliate Customer: Taylor Market Media Group, Inc.

Taylor Market Media Group, Inc., a solutions provider from Newport Beach, CA, became an IDEA affiliate customer on June 12, 2007. Taylor Market Media Group, Inc. is a leading sales, marketing and information solutions provider for distributors. The company has a strong background in the distribution industry and a keen understanding of what sales and marketing people need to help distributors pro-actively grow their business. TMMG is a proud member of NAED. Visit the TMMG Website for more information.

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New IRD/CERICOMX® Customers

IDEA, a 1SYNC Data Pool On-Board Solution (OBS) partner, implements suppliers that subscribe to the 1SYNC data pool using IDEA's IRD CERICOMX application. IDEA was recently assigned the following six suppliers:

- Americana Building Products Inc.
- Fish House Dressing Inc.
- Morey's Seafood International
- Pacific Pathway
- S & T Knitting Company
- Sundia Corporation

These companies will be trained to use IRD CERICOMX®, an IDEA branded product for supporting and uploading supplier product information into the GS1 Registry® and GDSN via the 1SYNC Data Pool.

If you would like to learn more about the CERICOMX® product, please contact John Etrie, IDEA IRD Product Manager, at (703) 562-4624; or Isabel DuPont, IRD Sales Manager, at (847)720-4106.

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Electro-Federation Canada: Sponsor of Electro E-Biz Forum 2007

The Electro E-Biz Forum 2007 Committee would like to thank Electro-Federation Canada (EFC) for their Bronze Level Sponsorship.

EFC, a native to Canada, is a national not-for-profit industry association. Together, its six councils represent over 300 member companies that manufacture, distribute, and service electrical, electronic, and telecommunications products, contributing over $50B to the Canadian economy. Visit the EFC Website for more information.

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Electro E-Biz Forum 2007 Registration List Now Available

View the Electro E-Biz Forum 2007 Registrant List to learn more about the audience you can expect to see this year.

This list will be updated as more registrations are received so be sure to check back weekly for updates! Don’t forget Early Bird rates end June 30th!

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Free Webinar Invitation: Linking Savings, Productivity and Profits to the Supply Chain Network: What Can IDEA do for you?

You are invited to a free IDEA Webinar.

What: Linking Savings, Productivity and Profits to the Supply Chain Network: What Can IDEA do for you?
When: Friday, June 22nd:3:00-4:00PM
Speaker: Pat McCartin, Sales Manager, IDEA

Register Online Now!

IDEA’s solutions and services have proven to show bottom line results for companies throughout the supply chain network. Our end-to-end solutions provide more efficient ways for companies to communicate and exchange important and accurate business information.

This webinar will answer all your questions about IDEA’s mission, the benefits of our product suite and how each product can be customized to fit your business needs. Experience IDEA and discover the quickest and easiest way to get the right products to the right place.

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eCommerce - More than Just a Store-Front

eCommerce generally conjures thoughts of Amazon.com, BestBuy.com and other online storefronts. But eCommerce is much more than a ‘virtual store’. Specifically, the U.S. Government refers to eCommerce as an online transaction of business, featuring linked computer systems of the vendor, host, and buyer/reseller. Electronic transactions involve the transfer of ownership or rights to use a good or service. Most people are familiar with business-to-consumer electronic business (B2C) as mentioned above, but the eCommerce in the Business-to-Business arena has been changing the pace of company procedures for years now.

eCommerce is essentially any type of business, or commercial transaction, that involves the transfer of information across the Internet.

The four major categories that eCommerce can be divided into are:

• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), the business-to-business exchange of data
e-mail and fax and their use as media for reaching prospects and established customers
• Business-to-business buying and selling (B2B)
• E-tailing or "virtual storefronts" on Web sites with online catalogs
• The gathering and use of demographic data through Web contacts

IDEA is proud to offer services that leverage the Internet, demonstrating zero barriers of time or distance. Studies show that in the future more business will move sections of their operations onto the Internet. This means that boundaries between "conventional" and "electronic" commerce will begin to face away.

Transactions and exchanges of information that are handled electronically provide plenty of advantages over traditional methods. But ask yourself, “What will be ‘traditional’ in the coming years? If you haven’t thought about implementation, eCommerce is often faster, cheaper and more convenient than the traditional methods of business information exchange.

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Did You Know? IDW2 Hot Fact

Attention Distributors:

If you requested data from a manufacturer but did not receive it, and did not receive an extraction failure message, the answer could lie in the “Company Profile” screen. In the “Company Profile” screen, there is a check box labeled “Only extract data if a price is also available”. If this box is checked and you’ve requested current pricing from a manufacturer who has no current pricing loaded, you will receive no data even though you are authorized for it. Uncheck this box to extract transactional data for items that do not have any pricing.

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