Helping you get your data where it needs to be
In my post about having a standards headache, I asked how to handle getting invalid requests from your trading partners. I also touch on this issue in my book. I ask that just because you can fix something that your trading partner is doing wrong, should you. I want to dive into that question a little deeper with this post. What is a … [Read more...]
Imagine you get on your system one morning, and it appears as if all of your customers are conspiring against you. Everyone seems to be sending you orders that you can't process for one reason or another. One customer is sending order files with made-up fields. Another is sending files that are not formatted correctly so you can't parse them. And … [Read more...]
What is the definition of EDI? I know that it stands for Electronic Data Interchange. But I keep hearing it referred to in other ways. I hear that EDI applies to documents such as purchase orders, invoices, etc. I have heard that EDI competes with XML and that it competes with APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). So in this sense, I … [Read more...]