EDI Solutions

Companies use an EDI Solutions to fulfill customer or vendor mandates or to manage a growing supply chain.  An EDI Solutions can include stand-alone software or an integrated system sending data to the company's ERP, accounting, warehousing or supply chain management systems, and typically involve a combination of software and services.  Many EDI Solutions vendors rely heavily on consulting services due to the technical nature of EDI Solutions products and services.  The challenge for most customers searching for an EDI Solutions is often the process of deciding which EDI Solutions is best suited for them, given the similarity in features and benefits in the marketplace.

The EDI Solutions Choose Carefully

Once your company has decided to acquire an EDI Solutions, the "from whom" to buy it will become a prominent issue.  Regardless of the EDI Solutions needed, several factors should be weighed when selecting your EDI Solutions:

Whichever EDI Solutions you end up selecting, it should support all standards in use by your organization and by your trading partners. At a bare minimum, the EDI Solutions should support the X12 and EDIFACT standards and all associated subsets of each.  The EDI Solutions should also support multiple versions of each standard, since not all trading partners will be using the latest standard version.

An EDI Solutions Ease of Deployment

One key aspect of selecting your EDI Solutions should focus on what is often referred to as "trading partner mapping."  During this process you will need to customize your EDI Solutions with the optional segments and elements that each trading partner customizes per transaction set.  EMANIO's EDI Solutions provides this customization allowing you to set each individual parameter as necessary.  Beyond this however, our EDI Solutions also provides "kits" that have already been set-up to be compliant with the segments and elements that supported trading partners require.  Our EDI Solutions has pre-made kits for hundreds of trading partners.

EDI Solutions Upgrade Path

An additional aspect of selecting an EDI Solutions involves change.  How adaptable to the changing standards is the EDI Solutions you are about to select? As the X12 and EDIFACT bodies update their standards, your vendor should be able to supply you with updated kits and updated components to bring your EDI Solutions up to par.  Making sure that these updates are easily deployed should be a key aspect of your selection criteria. 

Support Level EDI Solutions

As you identify potential EDI Solutions providers don't forget to consider support.  Look for companies that can provide knowledgeable support professionals who can help you with installation of your EDI Solutions as well as use and troubleshooting after the sale.  It's always a good idea to ask for references from your EDI Solutions vendor.