Manage the quality of your third party data in real-time

Find out how to implement transaction validation, online reporting and analytics and KPI scorecards using GXS Data Quality and Compliance on the Orbit UK Managed Service platforms.


Today, more data is being exchanged electronically between trading partners than ever before, and these volumes continue to rise. Business operations have become increasingly reliant on this data because it powers the business critical systems (ERP, TMS, WMS, etc.). Therefore, timeliness, accuracy, completeness, consistency and overall data quality have become incredibly important.

Data representing various steps within the order lifecycle originates from a variety of internal and external sources. A recent AMR Research report found that one-third of all data housed in an ERP system originated outside the organisation from three key sources:

  • Customers and distributors (43%)
  • Suppliers and contract manufacturers (31%)
  • Third party logistics providers and transportation carriers (17%)

Unfortunately, the trading partners that conduct the highest volumes of B2B transactions are also the ones causing the greatest number of data quality issues.

Improve the quality and timeliness of B2B transactions

To address these B2B challenges, Orbit UK in conjunction with GXS offers Data Quality and Compliance-a multi-enterprise SaaS solution that is designed to improve the quality and timeliness of B2B transactions.  It proactively tracks ‘in-flight’ transactions and processes against business and compliance rules to detect and prevent errors before they impact your business. It also serves as an ERP firewall for data cleansing and error prevention before back-office integration.

It offers the following services:

  • Validation - monitors transactions against business rules and compliance guidelines as well as data interceptions
  • Exception management - proactive notification of errors and non-compliance, including: e-mail alerts, role-based users access and workflow creation
  • Analytics and reporting - online reporting and analytics, flexible searching and scorecards to provide visibility of partner performance and metrics

Delivers ROI

Leveraging the Data Quality and Compliance service can render significant benefits:

  • Increased visibility by enabling a consolidated view of all transactions within a lifecycle
  • Gain control by allowing the right internal and external people to view the data
  • Reduce operating costs with “workflow made actionable”
  • Improve profitability by managing global regulatory and compliance requirements
  • Earn partner trust and satisfaction by ensuring key performance metrics are attained

To find out more, please contact us.