- 1. Outsourcing EDI Is The Way To Go, Says Expert
- (Management)
- ... assurance your company will comply with all EDI standards, both domestic and international • The ability to merge newer technologies (like web services) with traditional EDI • The ability to seamlessly ...
- Created on 05 October 2015
- 2. Monitoring Supply Chain Activity with Dashboards
- (Integration)
- ... of how EDI standards can easily move into “gray” zones. There are many other potential sources of errors. Retailers who only have to deal with a handful of suppliers often find themselves allocating ...
- Created on 28 September 2015
- 3. Why VANs are Important to the Transportation/3PL Industry
- (Logistics)
- ... between trading partners. The communication is typically done through a VAN (Value Added Network) using international EDI standards such as the American National Standard Institution (ANSI) or EDI for ...
- Created on 06 August 2015
- 4. When and When Not To Deviate From Standards
- (Industry Updates)
- Yes, we wrote an article before on deviating from EDI Standards. Our conclusion was that in-place EDI Standards, coupled with adequate “Trading Partner Conventions” are a very strong and robust set of ...
- Created on 30 July 2015
- 5. EDI is More Than Just Digits
- (EDI)
- ... 1971, when London’s Heathrow airport started to use it for cargo management. Most major sets of EDI standards, encompassing different industries (automobile manufacturing, health care, etc.) date back ...
- Created on 25 June 2015
- 6. When and When not to Deviate from Standards
- (EDI)
- What do we mean by “deviating from EDI Standards”? Experience has shown that in-place EDI Standards, coupled with adequate “Trading Partner Conventions” are a very strong and robust set of tools. The Standards ...
- Created on 08 May 2015
- 7. 3-Way Matching (3 Way Correlation)
- (EDI)
- ... ting the three-way match was never easy. It is not an EDI Standards problem. It is not a technical problem. As a matter of fact, it is now much easier because the shipping notice (ASN) was invented. I ...
- Created on 21 June 2013
- 8. EDI’s Arch-Nemeses
- (EDI)
- ... needs to travel through. I always like to use the hour buffer to set proper expectations. 4) Customer’s who take liberties with EDI standards. Recently I was presented with a customer’s EDI specification ...
- Created on 02 November 2012
- 9. Benefits or Nuisance: Vendor Compliance
- (Management)
- ... many, many orders because of the delay of notification. Certainly partners can communicate a trend of a problem in many ways, phone, email, fax but I thought that I'd throw out there that EDI standards c ...
- Created on 22 October 2012
- 10. Build, Buy, or Wait? (Part 1)
- (Technology)
- ... Dallas, Minneapolis, etc.), while others are topic-oriented (ie. EDI Standards). Members are usually good sources for information and can be sounding boards for approaches you’re considering. Forme ...
- Created on 24 April 2012
- 11. Purchase Order Acknowledgment - follow the EDI Standards or used in practice
- (EDI)
- ... requested changes. What I'm talking about here is the use of the 855 Purchase Order Acknowledgement transaction and the confusion on the expected use or interpretation of this transaction. EDI Standard ...
- Created on 11 April 2012
- 12. Managing Order Updates
- (EDI)
- ... ompare the updated order to the one previously sent in order to determine what change was being communicated. The 860 "Now, what do we do?" Ah.... EDI Standards support an 860 as a change to the 850. ...
- Created on 21 November 2011
- 13. XML vs EDI, the Saga Continues
- (EDI)
- ... s on EDI standards. So I thought I'd address XML again. To be clear, I do believe that XML is a viable option for trading data electronically, in fact, any type of data can be considered EDI, if ...
- Created on 31 October 2011
- 14. The Overdue Demise of EDI
- (EDI)
- ... shop, watch TV, and obtain music because of the internet, EDI standards have not gone away but continue to be the standard used for integration. Now that it finally appears that the dust has started to ...
- Created on 27 October 2011
- 15. Automation of Domestic Transportation
- (Logistics)
- ... "load tender", they confirm with a 990. When the Retailer arranges for the freight from the supplier to their location, with versions of EDI standards of 4030 or higher, the suppliers send a 753 (reque ...
- Created on 27 June 2011
- 16. Using 852 Data May Improve Your Vision
- (Retail)
- ... for the development and maintenance of EDI standards. But the 852 – and the practice of providing suppliers with a steady stream of data on sales, on-hand, on-order and order receipts so they can better ...
- Created on 22 April 2011
- 17. Trends in 2011 – From ANSI X12 to the Cloud and Beyond
- (Technology)
- ... and maintenance of EDI standards. Smaller businesses who have been slower to fully adopt EDI are making strides. Cloud computing, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) are impacting EDI. Regions around the ...
- Created on 17 December 2010
- 18. Is XML EDI? Does the Music Industry Really Know What They Are Doing?
- (EDI)
- ... required both parties to support custom files/format, the EDI standards were born. There is no question that XML is supported by standards bodies and is becoming of interest. But should we abandon traditional ...
- Created on 15 October 2010
- 19. When is Your Supply Chain Considered Completely Automated?
- (Supply)
- ... will require the service to be a line item as the EDI standards requires item detail in this transaction. Obviously all of these partners create and send invoices for payment. Like the orders, receivin ...
- Created on 13 August 2010
- 20. What is my Supply Chain
- (Supply)
- ... orders via 875 and invoicing via 880. However these are not the same EDI transactions that you'd be using with your raw material suppliers. Make sure that you are using the transaction sets and EDI stand ...
- Created on 24 July 2010