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How to Choose the Right EDI Provider for Your Business

Modern businesses rely heavily on efficient communication and data exchange. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) plays a pivotal role in ensuring seamless transactions between trading partners by automating the exchange of documents like invoices, purchase orders, and shipping notices. An EDI provider acts as a key enabler of this process, helping…
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Why You Should Switch to Cloud EDI When Transitioning to Cloud ERP

As businesses increasingly embrace digital transformation, the shift to cloud-based solutions is becoming a strategic necessity. Many organizations are now transitioning to Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems like CloudSuite and Acumatica to enhance efficiency, scalability, and collaboration. However, one critical aspect often overlooked in this migration is the integration…
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Choosing the Right EDI Provider for Your D365 ERP Migration

Migrating to a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system like D365 can be a transformative step for any business. However, one critical component often overlooked during this transition is the integration of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) systems. Too often, EDI becomes an afterthought in all the pomp and circumstance of…
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Achieving Financial Excellence Through Cloud EDI and ERP Integration

Across industries and market sectors, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) stand as two pillars that have revolutionized the way companies communicate and manage their supply chain operations. While both serve to propel businesses to a new realm of efficiency and competitiveness, neither of them do their…
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No Longer Sustainable: The Unraveling of Direct-to-Consumer

Spurred largely by the pandemic, the direct-to-consumer (DTC) business model experienced exponential growth, enabling brands to establish a direct connection with consumers, bypassing traditional retail channels. However, the landscape is shifting, and signs suggest that the once seemingly invincible DTC model may no longer be sustainable in its current form.…
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Enhancing Integration Between ERP Resellers & EDI Providers

In the ever-evolving landscape of business technology, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) solutions play pivotal roles in streamlining operations and facilitating seamless communication. While ERP systems manage diverse business processes, EDI acts as the digital bridge for efficient data exchange between trading partners. The symbiosis…
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A Brief Overview of EDI Integration with Acumatica

Manually handling and processing documents such as invoices is a costly affair, and the bigger your company, the more those costs add up—not just the monetary cost, but the time it takes to manually process them and the risk of manual transmission errors as well.  Electronic data interchange (EDI) is…
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What Does it Mean to be EDI Capable?

Being “EDI capable” refers to the ability to exchange standardized documents with trading partners, typically customers and suppliers. This capability involves using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) technology to send and receive business documents such as purchase orders (EDI 850), invoices (EDI 810), and shipment notices (EDI 856) directly between systems—without…
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Forrester’s Case for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Cloud: 60% ROI

This blog was written by Robert Ruppert, Regional Sales Manager for Enavate, and reprinted with permission. Leading technology research firm Forrester recently interviewed seven Microsoft Dynamics 365 customers that implemented the cloud-based ERP to replace aging, siloed ERP systems that offered bad user experiences. As in most cases, the decision to…
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Dashboard Dreams

Our company serves supply chain clients who operate their own on premises systems for handling EDI activity as well as clients who rely on our managed services for handling some or all such B2B activity. We’ve been exploring how best to leverage the latest technology to deliver useful, actionable information…
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Why Your EDI Processes Should Be Automated

Photo appears courtesy of Phill Dolby. We spend a lot of time each summer trying to streamline and automate as many of our processes and procedures as we can.  It saves time and, if done correctly, makes our data more accurate and timely.  Taking the time to do this is…
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Why We Love Liaison’s Delta/ECS Data Integration Package

Photo appears courtesy of Tony Hisgett. Nowadays, there’s all kinds of products that have multiple uses.  My new favorite kitchen gadget is a flexible spatula/spoon sometimes known as a spoonula, that scraps, stirs, flips and is heat resistant.  Not any ordinary spoon from the dollar store, you need to pay…
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Are Your EDI Maps Made of Straw, Wood or Brick?

Over the years as EDI consultants, we have done modifications to many maps-ones we created and ones created by others. We have seen a great variety of maps, from well thought out and well constructed to “what were they thinking!” Once an EDI map is written, tested, and in production it should run with…
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Common Misconceptions about On-Premise EDI Software

Photo appears courtesy of William Warby.  I have a customer using a web-based EDI solution and they are just too big for it.  They are currently weighing their options.  But it got me thinking, how many organizations are out there using a solution that is really not working for them?  Reasons why…
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