Benefit One: Remove document re-keying

By removing the manual keying of key business documents such as Orders, Invoices, Acknowledgments and Shipping Notices your business can benefit significantly by:

• 850 Purchase Order’s
• 810 EDI Invoice’s
• 856 ASN’s
• ASN 856 Wizard
• 128 UCC Labels
• 832 QRS Catalog Updates
• Shoe Buy Catalog Updates

Benefit Two: Eliminate Paper

Paper-based trading relationships have some inherent disadvantages when compared with their electronic trading equivalents:

• Stationery and printer consumable costs
• Document storage costs
• Lost documents

Benefit Three: Reduce lead times and stockholding

• Electronic trading documents are delivered far more quickly than their paper counterparts, thus the turnaround time from order to delivery can be reduced
• By using the OMS ERP EDI for forecasting and planning, companies are able to get forward warning of likely orders and to plan their production and stock levels accordingly
• With an allocation module integrated order quantities are matched against available quantities to ensure 100% line item order fulfillment
• By attaching pick-tickets to the advanced shipping notice your 128 UCC-ID’s are a single mouse click away
• Electronic creation of advanced shipping notes in advance prepares you for what is actually going to be delivered, and are made aware of shortages so alternate supplies can be sourced
• By integrating electronic documents (850,856, 810, 832) it means they can be processed much faster, again reducing lead times and speeding up payments

Benefit Four: Increase quality of the trading relationship

• Electronic trading documents when printed are much easier to read than copies faxed or generated on multi-part stationery by impact printers
• Accurate documents help ensure accurate supplies
• Batches of electronic documents are sequentially numbered, they can be batched for easy import, and therefore missing documents can easily be identified, not causing you to miss any, or wade through piles of paper

Benefit Five: Competitive Edge

Because electronic data interchange (EDI) makes you attractive to deal with from your major retailer’s point of view, and you are in their eyes more efficient to deal with than a competitor trading on paper, your costs will be lower because you will require less manpower to process orders, deliveries or payments.

It is no accident that our customer’s rely on the OMS ERP EDI integration for accepting orders, processing them through the OMS ERP solution and electronically generating the mandatory electronic documents to ship and bill- they know the benefits they get and the costs that can be saved.