Supply Chain EDI solutions
Supply chains are very much reliant on documents being exchanged at all stages: from manufacture and ordering through to delivery and invoicing. EDI is now an important part of this. The UK retail grocery sector has led the way in implementing EDI. It has been recently estimated that about 27 million orders are made every year via EDI in this sector saving some £650m.
But, even here there is still room for more saving with the use of dispatch notices or Advanced Shipping Notices (ASN). More and more of the leading grocery retailers are implementing ASNs with their suppliers.
Outside the retail grocery sector the story is quite different. In other sectors, such as DIY, and clothing, it is estimated that the EDI adoption rate could be as low as 25%.
Solutions at all levels of the supply chain
Through our partners Orbit UK are well placed deliver solutions at all levels of the supply chain, be it a specialist supplier or Dewhirst, one the leading supplier to one of the UK’s best known high street stores. Our services include:
- VAN consolidation
- Managed Business eXchange
- Application development
Increasingly we are working with our customers to deliver fully managed B2B services, which not only handle the connectivity between them and their trading partners but can also map, translate and validate the messages that are exchanged.
We can support all standards including Tradacoms, Edifact and XML, and have experience if handling all of the standard message types found in the supply chain, including Invoice, Order and Shipping Notices (ASN) as well as those associated with Global Data Synchronisation (GDS) and Product Catalogs.
