Tag: EDI

EDI – Electronic Data Interchange – A form of electronic communication created in the 1960’s to improve the supply chain efficiency and communication. EDI has since evolved to a more wide-spread business to business communication tool integrating more and more trading partners in new ways. Today’s EDI leverages more API integration points to various business, storefronts, shipping carriers, and more across a vast number of industries. EDI is transmitted in...

EDI was developed in the 1960’s by Ed Guilbert as a form of electronic communication between shipment supply chains in the US Army. It is now looked at as more of a methodology, combining best practices, standards, processes, and technology to allow the flow of information between businesses. The information has been formatted into a set of different standards for both domestic and international use. The standards set the baseline...

The benefits of EDI are easily identifiable with enhanced efficiency, better data integrity and accuracy, as well as cost reduction on removal of excessive manual efforts. What is not discussed are the potential pitfalls or shortcomings of EDI and how to address them. Here we plan to dig in and bring some of that to light. Cost Cost of initial investment to setting up an EDI solution can have a...

New to EDI? Don’t know where to start? Or are you currently processing EDI and need to scale your solution to meet the demands of your business?  Let us help guide you to your next step. In this blog we will cover topics to help you think about your business case, organizational structure, future growth, as well as desired architecture that will best suit your business’s EDI needs. Why EDI?...

Picking the wrong approach to EDI support for your business can mean endless log jams of projects or pouring too much money into third-party resources that don't support your needs. Looking to avoid these issues? This article will discuss three cost reduction approaches to EDI support—the outsourced approach, the in-house approach, and the hybrid approach—and the potential benefits and risks involved with each.     Approach 1: Outsource In this...

Years ago Logan Consulting started working with its clients on various requests from them to develop tighter integration with third partner logistics providers and warehouse partners (abbreviated 3PL, or sometimes TPL). This originally included very custom approaches to order processing within QAD and the added functionality to integrate with a TPL. Over the years, a common model has evolved leveraging standard QAD Enterprise Material Transfer (EMT) and EDI functionality to...

Logan Consulting published similar content several years ago in 2018, complimenting QAD’s EDI and EMT functionality. Since then, Logan Consulting continues to see increased use of QAD’s Enterprise Material Transfer (EMT) and EDI functionality to meet intercompany Direct Ship requirements between International Entities within an organization. This functionality has been especially important lately to medical device companies based on the United States working through sales offices in Europe and with...