Trading Partner Updates

1 EDI Source, a leading provider of electronic data interchange (EDI) software and Software-as-a-Service solutions, provides Ad-Hoc Reporting for EDI

Ad-Hoc Reporting software, EDI/HQ™, combined with the company’s previously released advanced mapping designer and engine, is the latest in a series of upcoming enhancements to help businesses of all sizes do more with their EDI data.  The new ad-hoc reporting enhancement allows users to build a nearly unlimited number of reports from EDI data, transaction history and trading partner configuration information housed in the EDI software. With EDI/HQ SmartFilters, businesses can restrict the report contents by trading partner, transaction type, date created, etc., providing a truly custom reporting experience. Read More

Trading Partner decides they don’t want to transmit the 997 Functional Acknowledgments to you…

…they want to save some money on their VAN costs, thinking that the 997 is a waste of time.

There is so much more to a 997 than you might think….as it is called a “Functional” Acknowledgement. So what are its’ functions? The 997 Functional Acknowledgment EDI transaction, a necessary piece of the EDI process, informs recipients that an EDI transaction has been received. This is important when you send out 810 Invoices to get paid and you want to make sure your customer has received them in a timely manner!

Many systems commonly reconcile the incoming and outgoing 997, verify that acknowledgement reporting has occurred inside a window of time (usually 24 hours), and confirm that all EDI transactions were accepted. Read More

If your company ships product anywhere, then you may need shipping labels that contain a GS1-128 number and mating bar code. 

For this you need a GS1-128 company prefix number. The company prefix number is assigned exclusively to your company by the GS1 organization. It registers the number and maintains its link to your company on a yearly basis. When trading partners scan your bar coded containers, they know it came from your company. If you’re also sending 856 advance ship notices to them, then they can link that bar coded value to their purchase order and the 856 transaction. In fact, they can determine exactly what’s in the container without opening it! Read More

How well do you understand HIPAA? Do you need to learn more about it?

HIPAA is normally recognized as a patient information privacy law and electronic patient information security law when in fact it truly includes a number of regulations published by the federal government that instruct the health care industry on compliance with the law. HIPAA started out as an effort to provide portability of health insurance benefits to individuals who were no longer employed by a company providing group health insurance, thus the acronym HIPAA, or the “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act”. Read More

Usually, you want to know if you see a duplicate transaction key error because it may prevent duplication of a transaction.

For instance, you most likely would not want an 850 PO with the same PO Number going through your system without warning. Sometimes though, with transactions that may occur several times, turning off the duplicate transkey checking can be desirable. For instance, on the 855 PO Acknowledgment, you may want to consider turning off the duplicate transkey check. Read More

1 EDI Source recently developed an automated EDI solution that helped client SodaStream successfully convert more than 31,000 orders to EDI data and turn around the same day for the multichannel retailer, HSN.

About SodaStream
SodaStream is the world’s largest manufacturer, distributor and marketer of Home Carbonation Systems. The SodaStream system enables consumers to carbonate water and to flavor carbonated beverages at home as an alternative to purchasing pre-packed bottles or cans making it convenient, environmentally friendly and cost efficient. Every year SodaStream provides 600 million liters of carbonated beverage to millions of households, making it one of the largest beverage companies in the world. Read More