Electronic Data Interchange -
An overview

What is EDI? How do we get businesses to recognised each others documents? What are the tools available to help with the process?

What is Electronic Data Interchange?

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is the computer-to-computer exchange of business documents in a standard electronic format between business partners.

By creating the documents in electronic format, the business process can be automated, to take out human intervention where it has become inefficient and repetitive and is a fantastic way to leverage technology.

EDI is only really the definition about the overlying content with basic background about the technology – Integration but with standards.

The EDI Holy Trinity

Electronic Data Interchange
in Action

A flow of data from your business to your customer may look similar to the one below:

Official Standards

Officially the main standards are normally:

ANSI X12 – Mainly US Based
ODETTE – Car Industry
TRADACOMS – ANA – UK Retail

From these came EDIFACT – UN Standard but mainly Europe.

GS1 –GS1UK
VDA – German Automotive
And refer to probably every business document you could think of.

FunctionX12EDIFACTVDATradacoms
Purchase Order850, 875, 940ORDERS ORDHDR
Invoice810, 880INVOIC INVFIL/CREBDR
AcknowledgePurchase Order855, 865ORDRSP  
Application Advice824APERAK  
ChangePurchaseOrder860ORDCHG  
InvoiceAdjustment812   
InvestoryActivity846INVRPT  
PlanningSchedule830DELFOR4905 
ShippingSchedule862DELJIT4915 
GeneralPurposeMessage864GENRAL  
ProductActivity852   
OrganizationalRelationship816PARTIN  
PaymentOrder820REMADV  
ShipmentNotification856DESADV DELHDR
ProductTransferResaleReport867SLSRPT  
PriceSalesCatalog832PRICAT  
MotorCarrierLoadTender204IFTMIN  
FreightInvoice210   
CarrierShipmentStatus214IFTSTA  

Products

After a review of your business requirements eLackland Consultancy will use the most appropriate solution for your business. We prefer to use the following products for integrating data.

RSSBus Connect/ArcESB   – https://www.arcesb.com/ ArcESB provides high-performance, reliable, and fully-extensible products that simplify the process of producing, consuming, and integrating data. ArcESB enables a simple yet effective layer of middleware that helps users drive information flow without the added complexity that is common across other integration solutions.

iCore Solutions

https://www.icoresolutions.com/

A leading provider of business integration solutions, tools and expertise. Helping companies connect their systems and applications, take control of their business processes, and make better use of their data.

 

To Increase 

https://www.to-increase.com/

Integration software specialists with AX.