EDI

January 28, 2021

How to Avoid Amazon EDI Chargebacks with CData Arc

If you've established your Amazon EDI vendor relationship, you've crossed a major threshold for your business on your way to growth and scale. But next, you'll face a tough new challenge and cost: Amazon EDI chargebacks. What are EDI chargebacks? Amazon EDI chargebacks are fees Amazon levies when o...

December 27, 2020

How to Understand EDI Documents and Avoid Costly Errors

Electronic document interchange (EDI) enables organizations to work efficiently with business partners by automating the exchange of trading-related documents, such as purchase orders, invoices, and shipping notifications. Unfortunately, because EDI was designed for use by primitive machines in the...

October 14, 2020

Video Series: EDI Mapping and Translation in CData Arc

CData Arc is a powerful, end-to-end EDI platform complete with robust EDI mapping translation capabilities to help you manage and simplify any EDI mapping scenario. It provides visual, simple, fast data transformation between every major EDI standard format and a variety of popular business file fo...

August 24, 2020

What is Healthcare EDI Validation? And How to Get Started.

SNIP Validation ensures healthcare EDI documents, such as an X12 HIPAA 834 Benefit Enrollment or an X12 HIPAA 837 Healthcare Claim, are correctly formatted to adhere to the schemas defined in the X12 HIPAA EDI standard. SNIP Validation uses seven levels, or types — SNIP Type 1 is the least strict a...

June 19, 2020

Why Certified EDI is Critical to Your Business

EDI encompasses some of the most mission-critical B2B exchanges between partners. If your EDI solution breaks, it can have drastic consequences on your business. You'll miss purchase orders and forfeit revenue until the connection can be fixed. Shipments will be missed, and delivery orders will go ...

March 4, 2020

EDI to Excel Translation: A Quick and Easy Way to Get Started with EDI

Getting your EDI process up and running with a new trading partner is typically a time-consuming and complex process. You need to get specifications from your partner describing the EDI format they require and set up a template for translating data from your operational systems into the requisite E...

December 12, 2019

Have You Outgrown Your EDI VAN?

If you're like many companies, you have no choice but to adopt Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Certain companies require their trading partners to use EDI, and to do business with them, you have to use EDI. One way companies get their feet wet with EDI is by turning to a Value Added Network (VAN...

September 2, 2019

3 Strategies for Integrating EDI with Back-End Systems

Once you exchange an EDI message with your trading partners, you'll want to keep a record of the transaction in one or more back-end systems. You may want to store purchase orders in your ERP, add invoices to your accounting system, subtract order information from your inventory system, or notify y...

May 20, 2019

Syncrofy Partners with CData Arc for EDI Visibility

In the modern digital enterprise ecosystem, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) has grown far beyond the simple exchange of standard business documents. The inherent complexity of vast organizations in business with thousands of vendors, suppliers, and customers across the globe means the ability to ...

April 12, 2019

X12 vs. EDIFACT: a Complete Rundown

EDI offers many different document types. The most common are ANSI ASC X12 (X12) and UN/EDIFACT (EDIFACT). The two standards are quite similar, differing primarily in their use cases and terminology. Here are the differences and similarities between these two popular EDI document formats. Use Cases...

March 28, 2019

Walmart Adoption Nudges Blockchain EDI into the Mainstream

In September of 2019, Walmart will require more than 100 farms that supply leafy green vegetables to put detailed information about their food into a blockchain database developed by IBM. Walmart hopes to use the so-called IBM Food Trust blockchain to track this produce as it moves through the supp...

February 25, 2019

AS2 Security Basics

Applicability Statement 2, or AS2, is one of the most secure file transfer protocols for data exchange between trading partners. AS2 combines a number of secure and widely used technologies, including HTTPS, SSL Certificates, S/MIME and file hashing. How Does AS2 Security Work? Walking through the ...