Shopify is the premier eCommerce platform on the web. With customizable templates, a feature-rich API, social media integration, a POS system and thousands of custom apps that can be applied to each store, Shopify is arguably the most powerful online … Read More
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a technology that has revolutionized the way businesses exchange information. In the supply chain management context, EDI provides an efficient and secure method of exchanging business documents between trading partners. Faster and More Accurate Data … Read More
In today’s fast-paced business environment, keeping up with the latest technology is essential to stay competitive. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a critical part of many businesses’ operations, enabling seamless exchange of business documents with trading partners. However, as businesses … Read More
After 25+ years in the EDI industry, I still have no love for this transaction. Years ago, I was learning BizTalk Server and read a book called Pro Mapping in BizTalk Server 2009 by Jim Dawson and John Wainwright. They … Read More
EDI stands for Electronic Data Interchange. It’s made up of two pieces of software that work together to exchange data, like purchase orders and invoices, electronically in an unattended fashion. Back in the day when I first started doing EDI, … Read More
That is the question A few years ago, I would have had a very different and completely one-sided answer to this question. I had always been a one woman show. I ran entire EDI departments by myself. I believed … Read More
A few years ago, I read an article that said that by the year 2020, APIs would replace approximately twenty-five percent of EDI connections. The rest of the communications between businesses would continue to be handled through legacy technologies and … Read More
In the world of EDI, there is a document for just about every type of transaction you could imagine. While these transactions aren’t specific to a particular industry/business, these are the three I most run across that cause the client … Read More
Navigating the world of EDI can be pretty daunting, especially with all the acronyms and document numbers used to identify nearly all actions in EDI. An important, and often overlooked, piece to EDI is communications. EDI can only work once … Read More
Not all shipping software’s are created equal, at least that is what one of our clients recently discovered when integrating EDI with Petco. Petco has a requirement for a custom ship label and packing list, pretty standard request. The shipping … Read More