Fulfillment EDI Integrations
Integrate your fulfillment and shipping with big box retailers through our EDI integration, streamlining your operations and expanding your market reach seamlessly.
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Fulfillment EDI Integration: Expand Your Reach with Big Box Retailers
EDI, or Electronic Data Interchange, is a standardized communication method that allows businesses to exchange information electronically, from purchase orders to invoices, with their partners and vendors. This technology streamlines processes by replacing traditional paper-based communications, reducing errors, and speeding up transaction times.
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EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) streamlines communication for ShipNetwork fulfillment, allowing fast electronic exchanges and cutting down on paper and manual work.
EDI enhances operational efficiency, reduces errors, and accelerates transaction processes, enabling businesses to improve supply chain reliability and customer satisfaction.
Our EDI integrations enable seamless data exchange, automatically transmitting crucial documents like purchase orders, invoices, and shipping notifications to connected big box retailers.
ShipNetwork partners with SPS Commerce for EDI solutions that are not just advanced but also tailored, ensuring your business's unique needs are met and processes are optimized.
Benefits of EDI Integration
ShipNetwork works directly with leading EDI technology partners to support EDI fulfillment and shipping with big box retailers for wholesale orders and direct-to-consumer drop shipping.
Our EDI fulfillment and shipping service makes it possible for eCommerce retailers of every size to expand their business to new audiences, without worrying about the complexities of managing an EDI integration. Existing ShipNetwork clients can get started selling in as little as 4-6 weeks.
Automated communications for faster processing. Purchase orders, invoices, and advanced ship notices are digitally transmitted via EDI.
Eliminating the human error factor that comes with manual order submissions and communications for improved accuracy.
Remove the barrier to entry of working with big box retailers who require EDI formatting to unlock more selling opportunities.
How it Works: EDI Transaction Codes
ShipNetwork currently supports electronic purchase orders, advance ship notices, and electronic inventory updates to retailers via the following EDI transaction codes
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EDI 850: Purchase Order
The EDI 850 serves as an electronic request for goods or services, transmitted from a purchaser to a supplier. Typically the initial stage in the procurement process, this digital order can address one-time, repetitive, or even modifications to existing orders as dictated by the purchaser.
This digital order details the specific items and their quantities that the buyer wishes to procure. Additionally, it stipulates the desired delivery time and the designated receiving location, which could be a distribution hub, a retail outlet, or directly to the final consumer.
EDI 856: Advance ShipNotice (ASN)
The EDI 856 Advance Ship Notice (ASN)/Manifest primarily offers comprehensive insights regarding an impending shipment of products. Generally dispatched by the product supplier or a third-party logistics specialist to a retailer or distributor, its main aim is to notify about a shipment. Many leading retailers mandate its submission within a predetermined period prior to the product's arrival at the retailer's warehouse or outlet.
This ASN details the shipped items, the transport agency handling the order, the shipment's dimensions, dispatch date, and occasionally, the anticipated delivery date.
EDI 846: Inventory Inquiry/Advice
The EDI 846 functions as a digital counterpart to the traditional paper-based inventory update, often referred to as Inventory Inquiry/Advice. Predominantly, retailers utilize it to question a supplier's stock levels, while suppliers employ it to communicate the quantity of units they possess. This document additionally provides retailers insight into future inventory availability. The frequency of EDI 846 transmission by suppliers can vary, ranging from several times daily to just a few times weekly.
This Inventory Inquiry/Advice is particularly significant in e-commerce order handling, especially in drop shipping scenarios where the retailer oversees the eCommerce platform.
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