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Electronic Data Interchange

 By itself, EDI does not create any new processes or strategies, it simply speeds the existing ones. EDI compresses the timeline from initial order to shipment to final payment by sending actionable information without the need for rekeying at any step along the way. EDI is a tool that eliminates waste, delay, and human error.

By using EDI, your company can send business documents directly from your internal computer applications to GlobalWare's computer system - without human intervention. EDI can thus minimize staff involvement and reduce the delays and errors that accompany the manual processing of business documents. By simplifying and streamlining business procedures, EDI can help your organization control costs, increase efficiency, and improve customer service levels.

Your company's computer system may already serve as a repository for data related to business functions such as purchasing, marketing, inventory management, logistics, and accounting. EDI extends the value of the investment you've made in business application software. Creating, sending, receiving, and processing EDI business documents can be automated and integrated with your existing internal computer applications.

EDI extracts information from your applications and transmits paperless, computer-readable business documents via telephone lines and other telecommunications devices to GlobalWare Solutions. At GlobalWare the data can be fed directly into our computer system, where it can be automatically processed and interfaced with our internal applications. All of this is accomplished in minutes, without the rekeying and paper shuffling of manual document processing. The benefits of EDI are improved speed, economy, and accuracy in handling business documents.

An EDI standard is the series of uniform message formats used to create electronic--that is, computer-readable--versions of traditional paper documents. The public standards most used today are EDIFACT, ANSI X12, UCS, TDCC, VICS, EDX, ODETTE, and TRADACOMS.  

To handle EDI transactions GlobalWare has in place an ANSII X12 compatible Gentran EDI Server for Windows NT and 98 with a Sterling Commerce network. GlobalWare Solutions uses the 4010 standard. GlobalWare Solutions supports the listed transaction sets:

• 110 Air Freight Details and Invoice

• 196 Contractor Cost Data Reporting

•  250 Purchase Order Shipment Management Document

•  810 Invoice

•  820 Payment Order/Remittance Advice

•  824 Application Advice

•  838 Trading Partner Profile

•  841 Specifications/Technical Information

•  850 Purchase Order

•  855 Purchase Order Acknowledgment

•  854 Shipment Delivery Discrepancy Information

•  856 Ship Notice/Manifest

•  857 Shipping and Billing Notice

•  858 Shipment Notice

•  864 Text Message

•  865 Purchase Order Change Acknowledgment/Request - Seller Initiated

•  869 Order Status Inquiry

•  870 Order Status Report

•  997 Functional Acknowledgement