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    EDI

    Spairal EDI

    The Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) arises from the need to integrate the business documents of companies, from data alignment, purchase order and merchandise shipment, to invoicing and payment directly to their administrative systems with minimal or no human intervention. In this way, companies reduce costs and times by making their commercial transactions more productive.

    The advantages of implementing an EDI project:

    • Increase activities that create value for the company, while reducing the need for personnel for data-entry or document management tasks.
    • Increased availability of data.
    • Decreased errors by digitization.
    • Simplification of processes.
    • Increased speed of logistics processes.
    • Reduction of expenses in the treatment of commercial transactions like payments, ordering of orders, processing of orders, etc.

    I'm asked to use EDI

    Spairal offers you several options to undertake your EDI project, but before you decide, you should be clear about the following concepts:

    • Number of documents exchanged. It is necessary to study this figure to be able to opt for a manual solution or an automated integrated solution.
    • Type of documents. Send invoices or only orders, delivery notes, etc. More variety of documents will imply a greater internal management effort
    • Number of customers with whom to work with EDI: The greater number of customers with EDI, the greater the need for a more advanced solution.

    Steps for EDI

    1. Identify the benefits and scenarios of EDI implementation.
    2. Have the commitment of the different areas of your company that are affected by the implementation of EDI (Management, Administration, Systems, Logistics...)
    3. Have an operational point (GLN)
    4. Support Spairal and AECOC to learn more about EDI and GS1 standards
    5. Choose the standard format of your electronic exchanges. EANCOM (EDIFACT) or XML
    6. Configure Spairal to carry out your exchanges
    7. Check with Spairal and AECOC if there are specific messages or guides for your sector or application scenario
    8. Check the correspondence between the data you want to include in your electronic transactions and the standard language requirements
    9. Align data with your EDI interlocutors
    10. Adapt your systems and start exchanging documents via EDI

    Our solution

    Spairal offers you a set of tools and functionalities that can be adapted to your EDI project.

    Manually .

    • We offer you access to the Spairal web portal so that you can manage your documents manually. Later, the documents will be transformed into an EDI output format.

    Integrated and automated with your systems.

    • Adapting to information that exports or integrates your software (ERPs).
    • We are independent of the ERP with which your company works.
    • We transform the information to meet the requirements of your project.

    We offer

    • Multiple input / output formats: EDI / IDOC / XML / CSV / WEB
    • Multiple input / output channels: Webservice, VPN, FTP, FTP, EDI mailbox, AS2 mailbox.
    • EDI Station: Interaction with mailboxes and EDI systems.
    • AS2 mailboxes for sending and receiving EDI messages.