EDI Overview

Are you involved in transmitting or exchanging business documents to your business or another company on a regular basis? Do you transmit these documents over a secure network like VAN (Value-Added Network)? If you are you’re engaged in EDI. EDI is the process of exchanging business documents electronically from one computer to another, using a set of electronic transaction rules, standards, or software. If you don’t use EDI, you’ll find out it is better than using email, phone, or even fax to transmit important or confidential documents. In order to get involved with EDI, it is good to know more about it and how it works. Here are some facts you may find interesting:

 

·        Email vs. EDI: When people think about communication, they automatically think about email. What is the difference between sending something by email as to EDI? Email is communication sent between one person and another while EDI involves sending documents from one computer to another.

·        Advantages of EDI: If EDI is automated, it can eliminate human error because there is no data-entry involved. EDI is really useful when a large amount of documents have to be exchanged.

·        Benefits of EDI: If you haven’t used EDI before, you will find it has many benefits including automating routine transactions, data accuracy, data transferring is faster, productivity increases, and end the end, time and money is saved.