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How to Set Up EDI with Amazon Vendor Central
An invitation to the Amazon Vendor Central platform is a crossroads, providing a coveted opportunity to boost sales and reach scale. The challenge is complying with Amazon s stringent trading requirements, which force organizations to move into the deep waters of EDI . In this article, we cover the...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Syncrofy Partners with CData Arc for EDI Visibility
In the modern digital enterprise ecosystem, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) has grown far beyond the simple exchange of standard business documents. The inherent complexity of vast organizations in business with thousands of vendors, suppliers, and customers across the globe means the ability to ...
First-in-First-Out: How to Fast-Track EDI Onboarding
We are often asked about the biggest challenges in onboarding EDI trading partners. While pointing out missed opportunities in a post-project review is easy, finding a strategic advantage within an ongoing concern is much, much harder. Onboarding programs are no different, historically facilitated ...
X12 vs. EDIFACT: a Complete Rundown
EDI offers many different document types. The most common are ANSI ASC X12 (X12) and UN/EDIFACT (EDIFACT). The two standards are quite similar, differing primarily in their use cases and terminology. Here are the differences and similarities between these two popular EDI document formats. Use Cases...
Direct EDI (AS2) vs. VANs: Pros, Cons and The Basics
Throughout the world, companies large and small alike are increasingly adding, expanding, and modernizing their EDI communications. If you need to meet partner EDI mandates or wish to capture the many benefits afforded by EDI connectivity with more of your partners, you can take several approaches ...
Walmart Adoption Nudges Blockchain EDI into the Mainstream
In September of 2019, Walmart will require more than 100 farms that supply leafy green vegetables to put detailed information about their food into a blockchain database developed by IBM. Walmart hopes to use the so-called IBM Food Trust blockchain to track this produce as it moves through the supp...
AS2 Security Basics
Applicability Statement 2, or AS2, is one of the most secure file transfer protocols for data exchange between trading partners. AS2 combines a number of secure and widely used technologies, including HTTPS, SSL Certificates, S/MIME and file hashing. How Does AS2 Security Work? Walking through the ...