What Elements Should EDI Software Have?4117820
Since EDI started to get popular it has been many years and during all this time, there had been many EDI Software packages out there permitting 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 article I'll focus on some on the main elements that each EDI software package must have in order to offer the user a positive 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 About
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. Location objects can be fields in a text file, columns in an Excel file or what ever file structure you choose to use.
EDI Translation
EDI Translation is the option to read one worth and set another value as result of some translation setting we used during the software installation or later. For instance a user can decide that every time that he see Qualifier ID 08 and then Qualifier worth then he desires to set that Qualifier worth as DUNS number.
EDI Validation
EDI Validation is the process of making certain that all the data in the EDI file are right, sitting in the suitable location, that mandatory elements are not missing and that element that are from a list of possible value for that specific dictionary id, are right.
The file in the correct format and adhere to the guidelines of the EDI Version and standard.
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 around. This option is important in case the user need some interface with his/her ERP software an many of those 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 each document type, how many had been with errors and more...
Every 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 figure out on what type of action to take in different situation, for instance if he obtain as well many transactions with errors.
EDI Documents Turn Around
EDI Documents Turn About is the component when user take an EDI document like Buy Order (850, 875) and creates an Invoice of it, saving the user time and typing errors.
