Is your EDI system ready and affective?
In order to execute EDI successfully, you need to consider how to overcome some of the most common challenges associated with EDI:
The “EDI Gap”
One of the “built in” challenges of an EDI project is the need to link between business requirements and EDI implementation (formatting, specific code, etc.). The integration must be designed and implemented by experienced specialists who fully understand the challenge of linking business requirements and EDI implementation.
Different Mapping Requirements between trading partners
Today, organizations often use a mix of traditional EDI, and different XML formats, Excel spreadsheets, etc., as well. Your EDI gateway needs to be flexible enough to handle this mix. Without the right mapping tool or skilled resources in EDI, this might become expensive and time-consuming.
Tedious Trading Partner Onboarding processes
Often, many people, in different roles both in the organization and outside of it, are involved in the onboarding process. Moreover, to be efficient, there is a need to parallelize onboarding processes of multiple trading partners. This makes alignment and management of the onboarding process a challenging task.
Lack of visibility
As the number of trading partners and number of business documents increases, the need for a simple way to track the exchange and quickly and efficiently locate a specific document/EDI message either by business identifier (for example, PO Number) or by technical identifier (for example, EDI control number), becomes more crucial.
Our EDI Practice
A.B. Link Consulting has developed a unique expertise with profound product capabilities and deep EDI understanding. Our experience enables us to build and deliver a solid EDI Gateway solution that bridges the gap between business requirements and their EDI implementation needs, in addition to building well-defined organizational processes that simplify EDI onboarding and handle production issues.
What do we bring to the table ?
- Profound EDI Expertise – Integrated technical knowhow of Informatica platforms with in-depth EDI fluency in both its technical and business avenues. We will translate your business needs into the optimal EDI implementation.
- EDI Aware Platfrom – Our solutions provide you with an EDI Aware platform based on Informatica products that provide the infrastructure for all EDI processes. The infrastructure is transparent and decouples EDI functionaly shared by all partners from mapping of specific partners. EDI functionalities, such as batching/debatching, EDI control number handling, duplicate checks and more are an integral part of the solution, and they enable focussing on new partrner-specific mapping requirements.
- EDI best practices & documentation – As part of the initial project setup, we introduce EDI-specific documents and templates that accelerate the development process and provide a basis for defining organizational processes related to the process, such as: how to introduce changes for a specific partner, how to alter the platform, what are the main steps of an onboarding process, and more.
- Proven success – We have EDI clients, currently in the production stage.