EDI Workforce: Personnel And Training Needs Personnel from various company functional areas will one way or another be involved with EDI. For example, the accounts payable manager or clerk should be familiar with EDI operations if EDI invoicing is in place. The procurement manager or the buyer should be well aware of EDI operations if the purchase orders are … Read More →
EDI Networking & Telecommunications, Fail over, Backup & Disaster Recovery In the not-too-distant past, most EDI transmissions were sent via modems and telephone lines. While some EDI is still done this way, for the most part fiber optic cables and high speed internet have replaced the telephone modem as a means of data transmission. Typically an … Read More →
EDI Hardware And Infrastructure: Operating System & Servers EDI hardware and infrastructure setup can range from a personal computer with internet access to a mainframe supercomputer depending on the processing requirements. It is important that all EDI software components (e.g. not just the translator) follow the same standards of appropriately selecting hardware and infrastructure environments. In extremely sophisticated EDI … Read More →
EDI Additional Components: Communications Tool, Database, Business application, Integration bridge EDI Additional components like database, business application or integration bridge will typically be sold separately from full packaged software bundles. Below you’ll find a brief description of additional tools used for EDI integration. Communications Tool Most EDI software packages will contain a communications management tool used for sending and receiving … Read More →