EDI, or Electronic Data Interchange is commonly used in the ecommerce world to integrate orders and shipments between vendors retailers drop shippers, and 3PL fulfillment providers.
You typically see them in action with ERPs like NetSuite, SAP, Acumatica, and the like.
SPS is what is commonly referred to as a VAN (Value Added Network), or an intermediary between the retailer and the integrating party (Trading Partners).
Depending on the retailer, they may or may not provide alternate integration methods like API or some other direct method. In many cases unfortunately you are forced to use the retailer's designated VAN as much as they may be a pain.
Interesting that for under 20 order per year they are even pursuing an EDI integration as the cost and overhead to maintain it would be more then it's worth. Would be better to use a manual option if available.
First step i would start with is find out which retailer they are working with, what all their integration options are, and what data needs to be exchanged with QuickBase
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Simon H
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-28-2022 17:35
From: Ryan Haberman
Subject: What is EDI? Can Quickbase help?
Hi there,
A client is pressuring us to sign up for an EDI service with SPS Commerce. I tried doing research and just feel dumber than I already do looking at database stuff. I want to keep working with this client so I am wondering if there is a way I can be "EDI compliant" using QB? I do not need end to end integration just enough to allow me to keep working with this client <20 orders per year but avoid the middle man (the BBB reviews are not kind). Is this something a developer could help with / does anyone have experience with SPS commerce or similar integration?
According to SPS DevCenter they use "Retail Standard XML (RSX)"
Thanks in advance for your help,
-Ryan
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Ryan Haberman
Making developers crazy since 2008
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