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In today’s rapidly expanding global marketplace, a company’s
ability to electronically trade with all of its trading partners
in real time results in higher profits, faster payments,
significant cost reductions, and happier customers and
suppliers. However, many businesses still receive
business-critical information from their suppliers through fax,
phone or email even though these manual processes are slow,
inefficient and error-prone.
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a set of standards for
structuring information that is to be electronically exchanged
between and within businesses, organizations, government
entities and other groups. WHIZTEC provides its customers
business-to-business EDI and supply chain integration,
synchronization and collaboration solutions. WHIZTEC application
can automate the internal and external data communication.
It can automate the conversion of data between formats and
facilitate communication between platforms. Common formats used
for data exchange include EDI, CSV, and XML but data can be
converted to and from virtually any format. Facilitating EDI in
the supply chain can be more complex due the number of parties
and pieces involved and varying levels of each partner's
capabilities.
WHIZTEC uses Internet EDI (EDI-INT) which
consists of three established standards to securely transport
EDI documents over the Internet. The Internet EDI standards are
AS1, AS2 and AS3. The AS1 standard is a way to securely
transport EDI documents over the Internet via SMTP (email). The
AS2 standard is a way to securely transport EDI and XML
documents over the Internet via HTTP. The AS3 standard is a way
to securely transport EDI and XML documents over the Internet
via File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
EDIFACT and X12 are the most common and widely-used
vocabularies of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). EDIFACT
stands for "Electronic Data Interchange
For Administration, Commerce and Transport"
and is a standard way to textually describe information for
communication between separate computer systems.
(In 1979, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
chartered the Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 to
develop uniform standards for inter-industry electronic exchange
of business transactions-electronic data interchange (EDI). In
1986, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE)
approved the acronym "UN/EDIFACT," which translates to
United Nations Electronic Data Interchange for Administration,
Commerce and Transport. UN/EDIFACT is an international EDI
standard designed to meet the needs of both government and
private industry. The UN/EDIFACT Working Group (EWG), a
permanent working group of the United Nations Centre for Trade
Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT), develops and
maintains UN/EDIFACT X12 is used in the USA but most of the rest
of the world uses the EDIFACT transaction sets.)
If you are looking for EDI/B-to-B solutions in
Shipping, Logistics, Retail and Distribution, Contract
Manufacturing and project-oriented manufacturing applications, please contact sales@whiztec.com.
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