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June 19, 2020
Why Certified EDI is Critical to Your Business
EDI encompasses some of the most mission-critical B2B exchanges between partners. If your EDI solution breaks, it can have drastic consequences on your business. You'll miss purchase orders and forfeit revenue until the connection can be fixed. Shipments will be missed, and delivery orders will go ... [read more]
June 17, 2020
How to Secure Your B2B API Connections
For decades, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) has been the lingua franca for B2B exchanges spanning dozens of industries, from retail and supply chain to ecommerce and healthcare. But in recent years, many organizations have increasingly moved from complex, EDI-based systems to modern API-based sy... [read more]
April 15, 2020
Your Trading Partner Says You Need EDI, Now What?
You've started a business selling products, and they're catching on. Now, a big box retailer like Walmart or Target wants to put your products on their shelves. But in order to cement that partnership, your new partner is asking you to adopt EDI. How do you get started? Defining EDI and Its Benefit... [read more]
March 06, 2020
Healthcare EDI Basics: What You Need to Know
Many things come to mind when we talk about healthcare. From technologies and lifesaving procedures to tireless staff who are dedicated to helping patients live better lives. Not typically at the forefront of our minds are the vast mounds of paperwork needed to support these healthcare professional... [read more]
March 04, 2020
EDI to Excel Translation: A Quick and Easy Way to Get Started with EDI
Getting your EDI process up and running with a new trading partner is typically a time-consuming and complex process. You need to get specifications from your partner describing the EDI format they require and set up a template for translating data from your operational systems into the requisite E... [read more]
January 14, 2020
Modern ESBs: Pros & Cons
Modern ESBs: Pros Cons As you adopt applications, including CRM, ERP, and accounting systems, you need to integrate these tools to gain a complete view of your customers and deliver the level of service they expect. An enterprise service bus (ESB) has long been one way to get all your solutions to t... [read more]
December 12, 2019
Have You Outgrown Your EDI VAN?
If you're like many companies, you have no choice but to adopt Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Certain companies require their trading partners to use EDI, and to do business with them, you have to use EDI. One way companies get their feet wet with EDI is by turning to a Value Added Network (VAN... [read more]
September 02, 2019
3 Strategies for Integrating EDI with Back-End Systems
Once you exchange an EDI message with your trading partners, you'll want to keep a record of the transaction in one or more back-end systems. You may want to store purchase orders in your ERP, add invoices to your accounting system, subtract order information from your inventory system, or notify y... [read more]
August 26, 2019
9 Ways to Modernize Your Legacy EDI
Many organizations rely on legacy EDI solutions to communicate order information with their trading partners. If your organization is one of these, you may have spent considerable time and effort working with these complex solutions. While there are benefits to working with something that's familia... [read more]