EDI In Logistics: from shipping notices and order updates to purchase orders and invoices
EDI remains a workhorse of modern supply chain transactions – including those in eCommerce. In this blog, we take a closer look at EDI in logistics, including its ramifications on vendor compliance using the example of Weber Logistics.
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a data exchange protocol that eliminates humans from the process. Pre-EDI, information was commonly retrieved from one system, manually recorded on a spreadsheet or paper, sent to the necessary receiver of this information, and then manually entered into the receiver system. This was not only a time-consuming process, but one that was prone to mistakes caused by human error.
With EDI, the sender’s operating software turns information into digital data, and sends it to another computer that correctly interprets and imports that data into its own different unique operating software. True EDI files adhere to either ANSI ASC X12 or EDIFACT standards – the “language” used to facilitate EDI communication.
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