Leveraging B2B Technology to Improve Supply Chain Efficiency
HONG KONG and SINGAPORE, Nov. 11, 2010 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- AsiaB2B, the first Standard-Independent B2B user community in Asia Pacific, today announced its 3rd Plenary Meeting, November 25-26, 2010, Hong Kong. The conference themed "B2B Technology in Asia" is sponsored by GXS and is expected to attract around 100 delegates from Asian based companies or those with operations and business in Asia.
During the 2-Day conference, related topics around B2B Technology will be discussed:
"We are proud introducing The 3rd Plenary of AsiaB2B and we are pleased with progress made since its inauguration in March 2009," said Casey Teo, Chairman of AsiaB2B.
"In the recent years, we have seen growing importance of Asian countries in the global supply chain. Many multinational brands and OEMs have moved their production base to, or source from, lower cost markets such as China and South East Asia. This trend drives the need for promotion of B2B standard process and sharing of best B2B practice in Asian countries. To achieve goals, further collaboration between trading partners and across industries in Asian countries is required."
The 3rd Plenary of AsiaB2B provides a platform for Asia based companies across industries to collaborate and share their insights and experiences in driving best B2B practice in Asia. Event details are as follow:
| Theme: | B2B Technology in Asia |
| Date: | November 25-26, 2010 |
| Venue: | InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong, 70 Mody Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
To learn more about this event, please click here or email to info@asiab2b.org .
AsiaB2B, affiliated with EDIFICE in Europe, was founded in March 2009 with a number of founding members including Cisco, CrimsonLogic eTrade Services, Fairchild Semiconductor, Freescale Semiconductor, GXS, Intel, Microsoft, SAP, Seeburger, Siltronic. Our mission is to provide a user group forum for Asia-Pacific based companies to drive and enable adoption of global best practices in B2B. In May this year, AsiaB2B and EDIFICE signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to enhance the arms length relationship between the two organizations. Having been in the market for over 20 years, EDIFICE can share with AsiaB2B members their experience in driving the best practices of B2B in the European market. For more details about AsiaB2B, please visit www.asiab2b.org.
About EDIFICE
EDIFICE, the European User Group for companies with interests in computing, electronics and telecommunications, drives and enables global standardised B2B adoption in Europe through best practice, information sharing and influencing of standards development. EDIFICE was formed in 1986. The European Electronics industry adopted UN/EDIFACT as the global standard for traditional EDI applications and RosettaNet for XML-based B2B implementations.
For more information about EDIFICE, please visit http://www.edifice.org/
About AsiaB2B
AsiaB2B, the first standard-independent B2B user community in Asia Pacific, is founded in March 2009. The objective is to facilitate the need for a standard-independent B2B user community that's allows companies to create an active knowledge sharing network for B2B and business experts in the Asia Pacific region.
AsiaB2B aims to establish active working groups in various business process areas, offering opportunities for learning about and influencing of B2B and business process standards.
For more information on AsiaB2B, please visit http://www.asiab2b.org
