What does EDI stand for?

In business, EDI stands for the reduction in manual administrative processes and paperwork errors.

Whatever business or sector you are in, you will naturally want your invoices, orders, shipping notes and other paperwork to be error-free and easily managed. As far back as the 1960s, supply chains across the world have relied on EDI as a ready, accurate means of processing and exchanging essential trading data.

Since then, EDI has been widely taken up by manufacturers, retailers, suppliers, distributors, third-party logistics companies and other trading network partners.
Forget raising orders and invoices manually and sending documents by email or post that then have to be keyed into partners’ systems, EDI has automated the whole activity.

For businesses who continually process multiple lines of order and invoice information every day, EDI has introduced universal time and cost savings, eliminated the need for repetitive paper documents and improved accuracy.

As a prime example of electronic business innovation, EDI has kept evolving. Gone are the days when internal teams had to grapple with an IT integration challenge that was complicated, unwieldy, expensive and technical.

Now, you don’t need any specialist knowhow because a quality external provider, such as Transalis, will do all the implementation for you and provide on-going support once the solution it’s up and running.

Let’s consider some of the advantages you will gain from adopting Transalis eDI™ platform. This is a cloud-based, managed service built by experts with years of industry experience.

We ensure all the formatting and translating required for integrating structured and unstructured data into your system is done successfully so you don’t have to worry about going ‘under the bonnet’. This includes mapping all the required data from source files into the relevant EDI format.

Similarly, scheduling outputs is easy. This is vitally important in a network of partners who will typically have different trigger points for extracting data. Keeping track of that manually is highly labour intensive and far from straightforward. Instead, whether real-time or tied to an agreed time or event schedule, outputting essential data is a task done automatically for you by Transalis eDI™.