EDI Integration Services

Introduction to EDI and EDI Integration

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) refers to a process of exchange of business documents between two trading partners in simple, standard, structured, secured and digital form. EDI integration helps transmission of business-related documents such as all types of Invoices, Purchase orders, Funds transfer receipts, Shipping bills, all financial information, etc. Automated EDI service becomes the warrior to eliminate paper-based services and system, reduce data entry efforts, and excels the business cycle.

The process of setting up a complete and efficient EDI workflow between trading partners is nothing but EDI integration. It covers many major aspects like:

• Trading partners – With the help of EDI, with whom are you exchanging the business documents is very important.
• Endpoints at both the ends – To send, receive and process, the data over EDI, what all IT systems and services (ERP, Logistics, etc) are needed is important aspect to be considered.
• EDI documents and transactions – What all data/information needs to be exchanged with the trading partners is also an important aspect for setting the flow.
• EDI standards – EDI documents are to be transferred but which format is to be followed is to be decided beforehand and that is important to have a standard format.
• EDI Protocols – What all technological parameters is to be considered and is to be used is also important.

To set up a smooth EDI workflow, one needs to define all the above important aspects beforehand and then set up a system with the help of the best EDI software/technology for the specific workflow.