EDI Translation: The Heart Of An EDI Environment

2007-03-08 10:33:40

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For businesses, the need to exchange information is critical. To make this process more efficient, companies have shifted to computer-to-computer exchanges of standardized business information, a process called electronic data interchange (EDI).

If you wish to implement an EDI system into your business, you have three basic options: develop your own EDI software, pay user fees to an EDI service bureau, or purchase an EDI solutions package. Purchasing packaged EDI software may be the cost-effective long-term solution. An EDI environment will need communications, translation and integration software.

The data exchanged, whether for a purchase order or shipment information, will ultimately be housed in your business application files. But to get there, incoming data must travel through the EDI communications software, through the EDI translation software, and then through the EDI integration software. Outgoing EDI data travel in reverse direction through this EDI software chain before transmission to trading partners.

The heart of your EDI software environment is the EDI translation package. EDI translation takes care of standards formatting of transactions and road-mapping the data in your database file.

To perform the transaction and mapping process, you can buy your EDI translator from a third-party vendor or use an EDI service bureau. EDI outsourcing to perform EDI translation may be a good option for small companies that lack the in-house resources to perform and monitor the necessary tasks.

Good EDI translation software can significantly reduce the work needed to integrate applications. The more the EDI translation module can do, the less you need to do to create the link between the EDI document and your business applications.

Since EDI translation software must include so many important features, the evaluation and selection of the EDI translation package is the key to implementing EDI as well as to minimizing investment for integration with your existing application software.


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