Why Your VAN Contract Is Quietly Overcharging You, And When AS2 Actually Pays Off Let’s start with an uncomfortable question: when’s the last time you actually read your VAN invoice line by line? Not skimmed it — read it. Because most companies don’t, and that’s exactly how a billing model built for the 1980s … Read More →
Why Acknowledgments matter in business operations Here’s a scenario every ops or EDI person has lived through: you send a PO, a shipment notice, an invoice, and then you wait. Not because anything’s wrong, necessarily. Just because you have no idea what happened on the other end. That gap between “I sent something” and “I … Read More →
NetSuite vs SAP vs Epicor: Which ERP Makes EDI Mapping Hardest, and Why We get asked this a lot, usually by someone staring at a half-finished mapping spec at 6 p.m.: which ERP is the worst to map EDI for? Short answer: it depends on what “hardest” means to you. First, why these three. Our own … Read More →
The Chargeback Autopsy: Tracing a Retailer Penalty Back to the Exact EDI Field A chargeback lands. $1,200, labeling non-compliance. Nobody knows why. The easy move is to write it off — the amount’s small enough that arguing feels like a waste of time. But do that enough times and you’re bleeding margin on a pattern … Read More →