Streamline EDI Transactions

June 24th, 2013
By Cheryl Reinertsen

We’re happy to announce that InOrder now supports many Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transactions, including sending and receiving:

Bills / invoices
Inventory prices, inventory status / quantity information, and inventory items
Purchase orders and order acknowledgements
Shipping notices and notices of orders with related invoices

The new EDI Enhancement can also import customer orders and transmit vendor purchase orders. With this Enhancement, you now have the fastest way possible to get orders into InOrder.

How it Works

The InOrder EDI Inbound functions allow communications between you and your Vendor Trading Partners.

Receive inventory/status/quantity/pricing data.
Generate purchase order data and send it to your vendor partners for warehouse replenishment or for direct drop shipment to your customers.
Receive and record PO acknowledgements.
Receive invoices.
Plan ahead – Receive notice of expected shipments from your vendors.
Read carton license plate barcodes from vendors, to receive by carton using Advanced Ship Notices (ASNs) to determine carton contents.

The InOrder EDI Outbound functions allow similar communications between you and your Customer trading partners.

Autopost drop shipments once confirmed as shipped by your EDI vendor partners.
Export inventory/status/quantity/pricing data to your customer trading partners.
Import shipment requests, drop shipment requests, and orders.
Transmit order acknowledgements to customer partners as orders are successfully imported, indicating allocated stock and/or backordering.
Transmit invoices and advance shipment invoice notices.
Print license plate labels during packing verification to affix on all shipping cartons. Use a built-in UCC128 label or create a custom ASN label.

You can also view each EDI purchase order or transaction from within the EDI Control Panel, reset or exclude a purchase order from a group, and view / resolve / reprocess errors.

And finally, you can combine the EDI Enhancement with the InOrder Batch Builder Enhancement to schedule processes and receive or prepare data for transmission on your own schedule.