When efficiently aligned with business processes, electronic data interchange (EDI) is a strategic investment that can pay for itself sometimes over by creating effectiveness and productivity improvements. To obtain maximum value and return on your EDI investment, it’s a good idea to determine chances within your workflow where you can:
1 – Remove the rekeying of data and subsequent errors
2 – Automate time-wasting manual steps
3 – Carry out best practices
4 – Producing more robust item and address tables
5 – Improve the time required to execute and handle EDI deals
Every business has different EDI requirements. Even if EDI is working well for them generally, a company might have some manual steps or other “pain points” that impact expenses and efficiency. Particularly when a business is growing and changing, it is very important that EDI deliver all possible advantages and provide optimal support for crucial supply chain procedures.
Another area that the optimization service can focus on is EDI relationships with trading partners, guaranteeing that your EDI deals meet your partners’ requirements as well as yours. A related benefit can be the decrease or elimination of chargebacks.
To discover such opportunities, an experienced technical support expert spends time observing how your special EDI operations runs, from receipt of a purchase order through shipping to invoicing. Then, if any opportunities for improvement are found, we offer actionable suggestions on the best ways to simplify your EDI-related procedures.
By optimizing your EDI option, your personnel can focus their energy on adding value to other areas of business. That plus improved precision of information and less issues with orders means higher margins and a stronger bottom line.
