What Elements Should EDI Software Have?7312093
Because EDI started to get popular it has been many years and during all this time, there had been many EDI Software packages out there allowing companies to use EDI effortlessly.
In an EDI Software there are a couple of elements that are essential to the achievement of the EDI Software answer in the organization. In this post I will focus on some on the primary components that each EDI software package must have in order to offer the user a good experience and really be used by company EDI Administrator or one of the company sophisticated user who is in charge of the EDI transactions, sending and getting and the entire process involved in it.
- Mapping - Translation - Validation - Import/Export - Reporting - Documents Turn Around
EDI Mapping
When we talk about EDI Mapping we talk about pointing on different elements in the EDI file as a supply data and setting their corresponding destination objects. Destination objects can be fields in a text file, columns in an Excel file or whatever file structure you choose to use.
EDI Translation
EDI Translation is the option to read one value and set another worth as outcome of some translation setting we used throughout the software installation or later. For example a user can decide that each time that he see Qualifier ID 08 and then Qualifier worth then he wants to set that Qualifier worth as DUNS number.
EDI Validation
EDI Validation is the process of making sure that all the data in the EDI file are right, sitting in the appropriate location, that mandatory elements are not missing and that element that are from a list of feasible value for that specific dictionary id, are right.
The file in the correct format and adhere to the recommendations of the EDI Version and regular.
EDI Import and EDI Export
EDI Import and EDI Export is the process of importing data from a text file/excel file or any other file format used by the organization into EDI file structure, export is the same but the other way about. This option is important in case the user require some interface with his/her ERP software an many of these ERP software packages have Import/Export routing, so in order to integrate in between the two software packages, the user can import and export data in between the ERP and the EDI software packages.
EDI Reporting
EDI Reporting is the option to view reports on the transactions activity on a given time frame. That way an EDI Administrator can see how many EDI Transactions went via, how many of every document type, how many had been with errors and more...
Each EDI software has its own set of EDI Reports, but the main point is that it has to give the EDI Administrator some tools to look at the EDI Activity in the organization so he can determine on what type of action to take in different scenario, for instance if he receive too many transactions with errors.
EDI Documents Turn About
EDI Documents Turn Around is the component when user take an EDI document like Purchase Order (850, 875) and creates an Invoice of it, saving the user time and typing errors.
