DiCentral headquarters near NASA

From The CEO

Dear customers and partners,

As a leader in EDI and supply chain innovation, DiCentral understands the importance of communication along the network of trading partner relationships. Our EDI services include many features that enhance suppliers’ collaboration with their business partners.

We continuously work to ensure that our customers receive reliable solutions. As an example, our advanced DiIntegrator TMS Solution simplifies the coordinated efforts for efficient shipping between supplier and retailer.

As an added benefit to our customers, and enhancing our standing in the marketplace, DiCentral has been recognized as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This certification distinguishes us from our competitors, and it provides our Microsoft Dynamics users the confidence that DiCentral products and services are the best in the market.

To stay abreast of the latest challenges and trends in supply chain collaboration DiCentral regularly attends conferences and seminars. Some examples of these are our recent participation in the Vendor Compliance Federation Conference in California, and our upcoming presentations at the SAP event in Las Vegas, where we will be featured as the only SAP-certified EDI provider.

DiCentral is proud of our commitment to our customers and our efforts to ensure that your service is always the best in the business!

Thuy Mai, CEO

DiCentral Corporation

DiCentral North America

1199 NASA Parkway,
Houston, TX 77058
U.S.A
Tel. +1 281-480-1121
Fax. +1 281-480-1181

DiCentral Company, LTD, Vietnam

07- Cuu Long Street, Ward 2, Tan Binh District
Hochiminh City, Vietnam
Tel. 8 485 182
Fax. 8 486 462

Hong Kong Office

Tel. +852 3612 3670
Fax. +852 8167 3150


Dongguan, China Office

Tel. +86 769 2681 3818
Fax. +86 769 8301 9361


www.dicentral.com

January 2008 Newsletter

DiCentral Achieves Microsoft Gold Status

In keeping with our commitment to our customers and partners, DiCentral recently achieved the status of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Requirements to achieve this distinction include training, product and technical certification, customer case studies, and customer surveys. Accomplishing these tasks has awarded DiCentral four competencies with Microsoft: Small Business Solutions, Data Management Solutions, Business Management Solutions, and Network Infrastructure Solutions. Only a select few companies within our industry achieve this high status with Microsoft. DiCentral will leverage this partnership to ensure that our customers who use Microsoft Dynamics products will have the best solutions in the marketplace. Now with our gold status Microsoft Dynamics users can have confidence that complete mapping and integration are possible while having visibility, control, and communication. We offer the most comprehensive hosted EDI integration services on the market.

If you are using a Microsoft accounting solution and would like to know how we can help you, please contact Mario Reyes at 281-480-1121 x139.

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Announcement From DiCentral

DiCentral is proud to announce our very own Peter Edlund has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. In this new position, Peter is responsible for executing the Sales/Marketing plan for the company. Thuy Mai, CEO of DiCentral, states, “Peter has been a dedicated member of the DiCentral Team for many years. I am confident of Peter’s leadership. His knowledge of the industry is needed to maintain the steady growth of our company.”

Peter has filled numerous roles at DiCentral, but his dedication to providing our clients with superior service has been steadfast. His expertise ultimately benefits our customers with expanded services. Peter states, “I am looking forward to leading a talented group of individuals and executing a plan that continues our commitment to customers through product expansion and innovation.”

Congratulations to Peter! We know great achievements are ahead with Peter in charge.

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DiCentral Makes Transportation Management System (TMS) Easy!

Are you meeting the complex TMS Requirements of your Trading Partner? These shipping requirements can be met without difficulty through DiCentral’s advanced DiIntegrator TMS™ solution. DiCentral offers a highly comprehensive integrated EDI solution providing complete Transportation Management System (TMS) capabilities. Retailers are gradually implementing EDI documents such as the 753 (Request for Routing Instructions), and 754 (Routing Instructions), in an effort to help streamline their supply process and achieve greater efficiency. Fully supporting these documents, DiIntegrator TMS solution helps suppliers reduce errors and avoid costly charge-backs. The DiIntegrator TMS Wizard replaces both the manual routing requests and telephone calls to buyers/carriers with a few easy automation steps.

Peter Edlund, Sr. VP of Sales and Marketing for DiCentral, states, “Increasingly our customers demand solutions that enhance their supply chain efficiency and reduce costs. In that regard, we have observed an increased adoption rate for TMS solutions across the market. We believe this increase points to an expanding importance of improvements in supply chain transportation services. Our DiIntegrator TMS solution provides Buyers and Suppliers the most elegant and cost effective solution for addressing these complex shipping requirements.”

Find out how DiIntegrator’s TMS Solution can enhance your shipping process. Contact us today at 281-480-1121 or email

    The DiIntegrator TMS solution provides a number of key capabilities:
  • Automatically updates and consolidates 856 ASN with complete TMS shipping information prior to sending
  • Validates and provides 753 documents according to buyer’s standards
  • Provides complete visibility of all EDI transactions
  • Creates and prints UCC-128 labels without added cost of printing software
  • Supports multiple trading partner TMS standards
  • Integrates with ERP/accounting systems such as SAP Business One, MS Dynamics, QuickBooks and more
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Annual VCF Conference

The Vendor Compliance Federation (VCF) held its annual conference in Palm Springs, California, on November 4th – 7th. The VCF conference agenda was developed around the theme “Redefining the Retailer/Supplier Relationship “. The conference was attended by Pat Hall and Derek Rowe who were able to meet with a number of our retail trading partners to get a feel for their plans and to understand their challenges in the EDI enablement of their supply chain. “In the relaxed atmosphere of Palm Springs, we were able to engage in a number of enlightening conversations that discovered needs that our customers have that DiCentral has developed solutions for,” said Pat Hall. “We will be following up with these trading partners to help them with these issues.” The VCF is an organization that focuses on supply chain efficiency. The VCF conferences provide an atmosphere for DiCentral to meet with both our customers and our retail trading partners to gain a better understanding of the issues and concerns that they have with EDI enablement.

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