EDI Tips & News
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Let’s say you are a start-up company, working long hours on a tight budget. Still, you believe in your product and the services your company can provide. Why let anything get in the way of promoting your company as a mainstream player in your industry? Begin by leveling the playing field. When asked if you can trade via EDI, you can say, "yes".
Electronic Data Interchange or EDI, as it is more popularly known, has been a part of business communication for many years. For large corporations, EDI is the rule rather than the exception, when transacting business with their trading partners. Today, these large businesses are mandating the use of EDI to potential trading partners. If you wish to do business with them, EDI is a must.
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Everyone knows that fixed length files can be a little tricky when mapping. SAP is one the ERP systems that exports the file in a fixed length format. As long as you are able to supply us with the metadata file from SAP, we have the ability to convert the fixed length file into an XML formatted file. The XML formatted file can help in multiple ways. XML makes your application file easier to read. Each field from the XML will have a name assigned to it. The name is called a node and that is what we would be using while creating the outbound EDI file.
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Are you considering becoming a drop ship vendor? Drop ship vendors often ship and deliver merchandise from a manufacturer directly to the buyer, without passing through the warehouse or the distributor. This is most common with internet-based retailers and network marketing.
When you are a drop ship vendor, one of the shipping requirements might be a packing slip. Packing slips are commonly used for an itemized detail of the package contents. General information that a packing slip could contain would be: customer name, customer number, company name, ship to address, item number, item quantity, unit of measure, item price, item description, payment terms, order number, date ordered, date shipped, etc. Some trading partners require other special fields such as: custom gift messages, special handling instructions, barcodes, logos, return labels and/or return instructions, and much more.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
MIDDLETON, Mass., Apr 11, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Exact, your trusted advisor and a leading provider of business solutions for small- to medium-sized (SMB) manufacturing and distribution companies, today announced an agreement with 1EDISource to provide its EDI/HQ™ electronic data interchange (EDI) solution. Full integration, allowing easy connections with Exact's JobBOSS and Macola ERP solutions, is now available.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you are expecting a certain document at a certain time, only to be left searching and wondering why it hasn’t come through yet? Have you ever wished there was some type of an e-mail alert that can be customized all the way down to checking for a specific Transaction Set for a specific Trading Partner? Maybe you expect an 856 to go out between 8:00 – 10:00 AM and would like an easy way to be notified whether it did or did not process. The folks at 1 EDI Source Inc. have created a solution just for this type of problem.