Best Practices in EDI Inbound Order Management

EDI Inbound Order Management Optimized and Enhanced to Increase Productivity

Visionet understands various EDI inbound & outbound transactions including order processing (850,860), ASN (856), Product Catalog (832) and Invoicing (810). We have re-engineered EDI order processing for two multi-billion dollar companies for efficiency and featuring dynamic trends in supply chain infrastructure.

Whether it is Inbound or Outbound EDI transaction we have the solid understanding of standards (like ANSI X12, EDIFACT) as well as mappers/Integrators (like GEIS, Harbinger etc). We also excel in building rules based EDI engines for processing logic.

We re-engineer EDI at two logical levels:

1. Mapping layers: takes care of raw to structure conversion and mailbox handling
2. Processing Layer : to take care of business logic

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We can assist you in building a secure EDI foundation which is robust, configurable and manageable. EDI should lower manual involvement and mistakes instead of increasing them.

Client

A multi-billion dollar marketer of apparel and recreational camping products, and a leading developer of branded products and proprietary brand programs for major retailers.

Challenge

The Company’s current EDI process, running on its ERP system, was becoming slower and less robust for increased volume of transactions from variety of business partners. Unless scalability and agility is improved, the company was not able to meet its growth projections.

Visionet Systems was asked to optimize and enhance the EDI architecture based on the company’s:

• In-depth experience with ERP and SCM systems for apparel industry
• Knowledge of the EDI standards and transaction processes
• Technical expertise

Solution

Visionet team analyzed the EDI Inbound architecture and engineered a solution that leverages of all of the features, security and functionality of an existing EDI processes and improved them with the speed, convenience and flexibility. The new architecture was designed for parallel processing of queued transactions with no user intervention to advance productivity. Functionality is incorporated to handle organization’s critical business requirements like:

• Automatic Prepack determination and best fit matching
• Deterministic evaluation of shipping dates based on customers routing setup
• Real time inventory updates for prepacks
• Regional product pricing & shipping preference
• Archiving order transmissions and logs
• Improved EDI order maintenance capabilities

Results

The solution came up with improved performance in order processing and the ability to access information more conveniently. This led to the following benefits for the client:

• Ability to service more number of transactions per unit time
• Improved accuracy of reporting to EDI services for inbound transactions
• Reduced business process maintenance and operational hardware costs
• Respond to trading partners needs of having the right products in their stores at the right time
• ROI: 6 month payback on the investment

Reference from:
EDI Inbound Order Management

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