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What is EDI?
What is Electronic Data Interchange? How does it work? How does your company become EDI capable? What are the benefits of EDI?
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EDI is an abbreviation for electronic data interchange. EDI is computer-to-computer communications and transmission of business information in a standard and structured format. Organizations are moving to electronic data interchange to streamline and improve business processes and transactions by communicating data electronically.
Electronic data interchange allows for:
- The automated flow of business information between organizations
- Integrated information flows into and out of respective business systems
- Common “language” among different computer systems and data format
- Data in a standard and structured format is translated into information that is understood by different systems used by organizations
Benefits of EDI
- Labor minimizes data entry
- Cost Savings eliminates expense of manual steps
- Inventory reduces lead time on orders
- Communication improves efficiency of communication and relationship with partners
- Responsiveness quicker response time
- Accuracy eliminates errors and submission of inaccurate data
- Efficiency integrated electronic data interchange makes the order processing more efficient and streamlined
Learn more about EDI terminology and common transaction sets
Benefits of EDI
- Labor minimizes data entry
- Cost Savings eliminates expense of manual steps
- Inventory reduces lead time on orders
- Communication improves efficiency of communication and relationship with partners
- Responsiveness quicker response time
- Accuracy eliminates errors and submission of inaccurate data
- Efficiency integrated electronic data interchange makes the order processing more efficient and streamlined
Learn more about EDI terminology and common transaction sets
How does EDI work?
Electronic data interchange replaces previous order processes such as mail, fax or email by electronically exchanging documents between two companies with different internal systems. A translator will convert the business application data to and from another data format between the trading partners. Trading partners are two separate entities, i.e. supplier vs. buyer. The order processing life cycle is shortened significantly by creating a link between computer systems of different entities.
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