EDI for Business & Operations

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EDI for Operations and Management

Life beyond the EDI PO and INV

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Agenda

– Environment Overview

– Developing Your Strategy

– Solutions

– Conclusion

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Environmental Overview

What processes have you automated via EDI?

What processes can you automate via EDI?

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Purchasing & Order

Fulfillment

Inside Sales

A/R (Vendor) &

A/P (Customer)

Shipping/ReceivingLogistics

•850 Purchase Order

•860 PO Change Request

•855 PO Acknowledgment

•856 Ship Notice

•856 Ship Notice

•810 Invoice

•820 Remittance Advice

•823 Lockbox

•214 Shipment

Status Report

•210 Freight Invoice•852 Product Activity

Data

•211 Motor Carrier

Bill of Lading

•857 Shipment and

Billing Notice

•816 Organizational

Relationships

•140 Product Registration

•812 Credit/Debit Adj

•865 PO Change Ack

•870 Order Status Report

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What can the EDI 214 do for you?

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SPA Updates

Manufacturers DistributorsSales made

to

Authorized

End User

Special Price Authorization Process

Source: NAED Recommended Best Practices: SPA Claiming Filing

•845 Price Authorization Acknowledgment

•844 Rebate Request

•849 Response to Rebate Request

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Sales made

to

Authorized

End User

Rebate Claim Process

Manufacturers

Manufacturer

Audits

Rebate

Process

Claim

Denied

Claim

Partiall

y

Denied

Claim

Accepted





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Manufacturers

Rebate Claim Process

Manufacturers Distributors

SPA Updates





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Developing Your Strategy

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• Customer loyalty/Ease-of-business

• Sustainability & Lean operations

• Bottom-line/More efficient use of resources

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– Size?

– Line/labor-intensive?

– High-volume, high-frequency?

– EDI capability?

– “Squeaky wheel?”

Which TP’s to focus on?

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– Time & resource inefficient?

– Manual?

– Spans organizational boundaries?

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Solutions

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Working with EDI-capable

On-Net

Trading Partners

Retail Chain

Exchanges

Independent

Network

Off-Net

VAN

Off-Net VAN

Trading Partners

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Source: Gartner

ebXML Print-to-Image• For low-volume trading partners • Cannot integrate EDI into business system

Faxinating Solutions – EDI enablement services• EXACT Tool• Fax to EDI• Custom and established API’s to most ERPs

iConex• Leverage existing systems, processes, and

people• Integrate with IDX• 100% data-capture accuracy• For high-volume trading partners

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Source: Gartner

conexiom - ecmarket

IDX Network

conexiom

Electrical

Distributors

Electrical

Manufacturer

EDI Purchase Order Transaction Map

Fax or EmailOrders

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EDI file and Human Readable

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• Anticipated growth of EDI:

– Investment in infrastructure/Integration of services & systems

– Interest in eCommerce consistently rising

– EDI as foundation for future eBiz developments

• Vendor Managed Inventory(VMI)

• E-invoicing

• Increase in XML

– EDI in other verticals/industries

Healthcare

Government

Global growth

Source: Gartner

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“None of us really believed that EDI

could financially benefit our

company…but the benefits of

eCommerce are undeniable. Why

would we stop now? EDI is just the

beginning, we want to take

advantage of everything eCommerce

can offer.”

– Roger Cleary, President, Davis Electrical

Supply

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Thank you

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