Cutting paper usage – save costs, improve efficiency and be sustainable GS1 industry research shows that significant cost savings can be made by eliminating the use of paper documents and replacing them with EDI messages. Businesses that rely on paper-based processes have to cover the cost of printing forms, postage, administrative overhead such as filing and retrieval, data entry and the manual validation of information. There … Read More →
Full implementation of EDI in grocery retail sector Despite the near saturation of electronic ordering and invoicing in this sector, the uptake of electronic despatch advices is comparatively low at 38%. GS1 UK’s research has identified further cost savings of £200 million if the sector fully adopted EDI despatch advices for all of its orders. The UK retail grocery sector has the opportunity to … Read More →
UK retail grocery sector saves £650 million per year in costs by using EDI GS1 UK surveyed the top 15 UK grocery retailers to find out the extent to which the sector is using EDI for purchase order, despatch advice and invoice documentation and to identify any opportunities and further benefits that can be gained. They have estimated that in 2009 there were 27 million … Read More →
Improve efficiency by replacing manual and time-consuming processes Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) can help businesses save costs and improve efficiency by replacing manual and time-consuming processes that require human intervention and materials such as paper documents, meetings and faxes. Expenditure on forms, postage, storage and administrative overhead can be reduced or even eliminated by simply cutting the use of paper. This move of replacing paper-based processes with … Read More →