In today’s highly competitive business market, efficiency through technology is seen as a key success driver.
Technological advancements such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) continue to advance the quality of information available to supply chain, logistics and operations managers which leads to not only improved efficiency and performance, but also better customer service and a lower response time.
What is EDI?
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is the transfer of data from one computer system to another by ‘standardizing message formatting’ without the need for human intervention.
EDI Integration With 3 PL
- Professional 3PL providers use EDI to send invoices, bills of lading, confirmations of dispatch, shipping details and any other information that the linked organizations choose to exchange.
- 3PL EDI integration provides highly accurate and timely information about customers' logistics creating business efficiency by not making the staff manually collate the information.
- Manual data entry can significantly slow down the business cycle, especially when you are waiting days or weeks for shipping documents to arrive during the e-commerce order fulfillment.
- EDI transactions can be exchanged in minutes instead of the days or weeks associated with postal mails.
- EDI also lowers the cost of printing, reproduction, storage, filing and postage supplies as well as reduces the office storage space required.
