EDI & Integration Questions

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a standard way for trading partners to exchange documents such as purchase orders, acknowledgements, ship notices, and invoices. Large retailers and supply-chain partners often require it. The value is not the format itself; it is reducing manual entry while making validation, exceptions, and ownership explicit.

We work primarily with X12 transaction sets and also integrate XML, JSON, flat-file, API, AS2, SFTP, and platform-specific partner formats. Common X12 work includes 850 purchase orders, 855 acknowledgements, 856 advance ship notices, and 810 invoices. The exact standards and transport are confirmed against each trading partner's implementation guide before scope is set.

We start with the business document and source-of-truth systems, then define partner requirements, mappings, validation rules, acknowledgements, transport, retry behavior, alerting, and who owns each exception. We test with representative data and partner certification flows before production traffic moves. The aim is not merely to transmit a file; it is to make failures visible and recoverable.

We design, implement, and support EDI workflows — X12, EDIFACT, XML, AS2, SFTP, and API-based partner exchanges — including acknowledgements, validation, retry behavior, alerting, and partner onboarding, so a rejected document becomes something actionable instead of disappearing into a queue. We are not a 24/7 managed-hosting provider; where that is needed we implement on a platform that supplies it and stay responsible for the integration itself.