How do you EDI...?

[EdisoftFan]

I've been using Edisoft Merchant on a PC in several flavors for past 8 years. Great little program for the cost. I've had some experience with both outsourced EDI and web-based EDI, and my vote is, if you have more than 5 trading partners, best to handle in-house.
Outsourced EDI was bad for two reasons:
1. Fast turnaround could be costly,and if there was an issue with labels tough to correct quickly (for example all our 4,000 UCC labels on one shipment to 7 dc's arrived with address of just the first DC, and labels came in the afternoon before the shipment so we basically had to beg forgiveness from retailer and pay extra for their consolidator to separate.
2. Responding to compliance chargebacks became a nightmare as it was fingerpointing between retailer and the outsourced company. Worse, the company dragged feet sending us the raw data, which contained other errors for which fortunately we were not charged.
Web-based provider wasn't too bad but website could be slow or unresponsive some days and for time-critical ASN's...
In-House may involve costs, especially initially, and for a devoted employee. But to be honest, you need a competent coordinator just to deal with an outsourced company so might as well go whole hog and bring in house. Even in slow periods, such a person adds value with other IT or sales report projects.
Just my two peso's...

[jonnl0715]

I work for a service provider, focusing on the Air Transport Industry. We had a custom EDI Clesring House developed for us 15 years ago which is still runing, but, soon will be replaced by WebSphere Partner Gateway and WebSphere Message Broker WebSphere Transformation Extender on the backend. If there are any other WPG users out there please let me know.
We also provide a conversion service for SPEC2000 to/from X12.

Cheers/Jon

[joecool6666]

We use Extol Business Integrator v2.3 on Linux ( Red Hat )

[mahendran]

Hi All