EDI (114)
How can Finance get into the EDI world
- Sunday, 04 July 2010
- EDI
- Written by Marlow Atticus
Image that its Friday morning, just like all of the others, the Accounts Payable Manager comes out of his/her office to the sound of paper being shuffled throughout the AP department. He/she looks over their empire of personnel and watches as each clerk pulls a check from one pile, the paper remittance details from another pile and then any backup for that remittance (debits, notes) from another pile and then puts each of these into a windowed envelope and inserts the envelope into the stack with the others. Then repeats that process over and over for the balance of an hour.
Is XML EDI? Does the Music Industry Really Know What They Are Doing?
- Friday, 15 October 2010
- EDI
- Written by Marlow Atticus
Over the years you have read articles from me on knowing the data type that your trading partners are supporting with others, and to collaborate with these partners to make sure that an initiative being rolled out adds value to both sides. Which Standards to use (VICS, UCS, EDIFACT, straight X12, etc.). Which transactions (Is an order an 850 or an 875 or an EDIFACT ORDRS)? And being consistent with the use of tags, nodes, Segments, elements etc for your industry. These are all extremely important to the success of a electronic trading partner relationship.
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Ecommerce and EDI - Expanded
- Sunday, 30 January 2011
- EDI
- Written by Marlow Atticus
I want to use this article to expanded further on my article in November and December regarding Ecommerce (Vendor Direct to Consumer) by exploring two areas that are inherent to Direct/Drop ship and that’s manage Changes and Returns.
ASN - The Most Valuable EDI Document
- Monday, 21 February 2011
- EDI
- Written by Marlow Atticus
Debate continues about whether the ASN is of enough value that it deserves being supported. In my findings, the ASN is probably the single most important document in the supply chain process. ROI for the ASN is estimated from $5 when used for simple confirmation purposes to as much as $50 when used for visibility and automated receiving. All EDI transactions have their individual ROI, however most do not have the scope of impact on multiple departments that the ASN has. Below are typical values -
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Preparing for your new EDI Implementation
- Friday, 01 April 2011
- EDI
- Written by Marlow Atticus
Well, we’re at the end of the first quarter of 2011. The economy is looking better. You’ve got your 2011 projects underway. For many of you, you read a few of my articles in the last 4 -5 months and have decided that one of the projects would be add more suppliers to your Electronic Trading program, add another transaction to your library of EDI documents. Or maybe you’ve committed to management that you’ll support a new method of orders or distribution, such as Factory Direct or Cross Dock. Now you’ve realized “how am I going to get this done?”
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EDI ROI Confusion
- Monday, 08 August 2011
- EDI
- Written by Marlow Atticus
While one could think that the Economy was slowly coming back, we’re stopped by indecision with our government officials again resulting in a drop in the stock market of over 500 points last Thursday. With that, many retailers will likely go back to the planning committees to discuss if they should rethink their plans for footprint expansion. If your company has had plans for store expansion and is now putting those on hold, I’ll again remind you that regardless of conditions of the Economy, everyone should always be looking at process improvements. And with that you should be considering starting or expanding trading with your partners electronically.
Read more...Is an EDI ROI Just For Retailers, Grocers and Distributors?
- Monday, 10 October 2011
- EDI
- Written by Marlow Atticus
I've been writing articles for ec-bp for several years now and most if not all of the articles have been around the value to the buying organizations. Certainly over the years these Buying organizations have been the driver of the electronic trading initiatives; much of that involves achieving an ROI. However the other partners can or are already gaining value or ROI on their side as well.
XML vs EDI, the Saga Continues
- Monday, 31 October 2011
- EDI
- Written by Marlow Atticus
It's been nearly a years since I wrote on the topic of XML as a form of EDI. Over the that time I've received quite a bit of feedback on that article, some of which was around what appeared to my biases on EDI standards. So I thought I'd address XML again.
Managing Order Updates
- Monday, 21 November 2011
- EDI
- Written by Marlow Atticus
As EDI continues to evolve, so does the thought of managing order changes electronically. In January I reported on managing PO changes through the E-Commerce Direct Ship/Drop Ship types of orders and for the last couple years I've commented on the status of communicating changes to a open order in general, so I thought it might be time for an update.
Go International
- Thursday, 14 October 2010
- EDI
- Written by Michael Martz
As I’ve just returned from a trip to Scotland, what topic could be timelier than international EDI? It was tough enough communicating over there with both ‘sender’ and ‘receiver’ using English (we figured that if we could identify one out of five words being spoken to us, we stood a good chance of figuring out the message. That’s generally not a good approach in business). It’s exponentially more difficult when two different languages are involved. The good news is that there are already standard ‘languages’, such as X.12, EDIFACT, and XML, that can streamline the process of document exchange between partners across the world.
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