Electronic Data Transfer (EDI): A Necessity for Doing Business Today
You’ve just landed a contract with Walmart and have been informed that you will need to transmit and receive Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) documents in order to do business with them. If you are a DCL customer -- no problem. DCL is already EDI compliant with Walmart, Office Max, Nordstrom, Target, Ingram, and Navarre along with many others; and we will be ready to take and ship EDI orders as soon as you receive your first purchase order. If you are not a DCL customer, the IT challenge of integrating EDI documents with the retailer and administering the entire order-fulfillment process can be a very complicated and time-consuming task.
Automatic Integration
DCL takes the mystery and the overhead out of EDI by providing an integrated solution between required trading partner EDI documents, the DCL shipping and inventory system and you, the customer. The many details of setup, testing and monitoring required for a successful EDI link are all handled by DCL.
Support of all the standard EDI documents is provided including: 810 Invoice, 850 Purchase Order, 855 PO Acknowledgement, 856 Advance Ship Notice, 862 Product Activity Data, and 997 Functional Acknowledgement.
A very simplified diagram of the information flow is shown below.
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| - Send Purchase Order (850) | - Receive PO | -Approve PO |
| - Release and Ship Order | - Access to all shipment / inventory information | |
| - Send Advanced Ship Notice (856) | ||
| - Post shipment / inventory info and send files to Customer | ||
| - Receive Invoice | - Generate and send Invoice (810) | - Send Invoice advice |
| - Process for payment | ||
| - Send Remittance Advice (820) | - Notify Customer of payment | |
Compliance with Routing Guides
In addition to support of the EDI documents required by the trading partner, DCL also provides support for the associated routing guides. Routing guides of trading partners contain exact information on labeling, required shipping documents, pallet specifications and business rules which must be followed for proper shipment of product. DCL electronically stores and checks all routing requirements on each order ensuring vendor compliance.
EDI is not only here to stay; it has become essential to doing business in today’s retail market.
As your fulfillment partner, DCL is here to help by taking care of these business requirements and allowing you to focus on running your business.
About
DCL:
DCL, www.dclcorp.com, is a leading
provider of outsourced manufacturing and logistics services for technology industries.
Its customers include electronics, software and healthcare companies. DCL's business-to-business
services include order processing, project management, packaging and assembly,
fulfillment and distribution, inventory management and warehousing and returns
management. In providing these services, DCL has developed state-of-the-art information
technology providing customers with real-time, web-based access to production,
inventory and shipping information.
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