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Articles by Brooke Lester

Brooke Lester

Brooke is the Marketing and Sales Support Manager at Remedi Electronic Commerce Group. Brooke joined Remedi in 2012 bringing with her experience and knowledge of EDI and B2B Integration from having spent the early years of her career as an EDI consultant. She is responsible for coordinating Remedi’s marketing efforts related to blogs, newsletters, customer networking events, conferences, educational material, and the IBM Premier Business Partner relationship.

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What to Look for When Selecting an EDI Vendor

Posted by Brooke Lester on Jan 29, 2025 10:54 AM

Key takeaways:

  1. Choosing the right EDI provider boosts scalability, reliability, and integration for smoother operations and increased competitiveness.
  2. To choose an EDI vendor, focus on reliability, integration, scalability, support, compliance, and industry expertise.
  3. Evaluate potential vendors based on uptime, integration flexibility, growth capacity, 24/7 support, and security compliance.
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From Cost Center to Strategic Advantage: Reframing EDI in Modern Business

Posted by Brooke Lester on Jan 29, 2025 10:42 AM

Key Takeaways:

  • Growth is limited in businesses that view EDI as a cost center.
  • Businesses that embrace modern EDI have a competitive advantage.
  • The strategic benefits of EDI have a measurable return on investment.
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How Cloud-Based EDI Reduces Costs and Increases Scalability for Growing Businesses

Posted by Brooke Lester on Jan 29, 2025 10:39 AM

Key Takeaways

Scalability: EDI cloud services enable businesses to scale operations easily without expensive infrastructure upgrades or extensive IT resources.

Cost Savings: Moving to cloud EDI reduces maintenance and hardware costs, offering growing organizations more affordable, flexible pricing.

Competitiveness: Cloud EDI boosts efficiency and adaptability, helping businesses compete globally by facilitating speedier integration with new trading partners and markets.

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A Practical Guide to Improve EDI Partner Collaboration

Posted by Brooke Lester on Jan 15, 2025 2:48 PM

Key Takeaways:

  • Establish clear communication protocols to improve transparency and reduce delays in EDI transactions.
  • Ensure the exchange of accurate and up-to-date information with validation automation tools.
  • Leveraging cloud-based EDI solutions and giving trading partners access to dashboards for real-time data access is key to improving collaboration.

Consider this scenario: A retail company, ABC Apparel, struggled with frequent EDI errors and miscommunications with its trading partners. The company’s supply chain became increasingly complicated, causing order processing and shipping delays. Customer satisfaction was at an all-time low. The company lost two trading partners within one month, and account managers struggled to keep up with addressing the newest complaints. 

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The Technical Evolution of EDI: From Specialized Tools to Full Integration Suites

Posted by Brooke Lester on Jan 1, 2025 3:00 PM

Key Takeaways:

  • EDI Evolution: EDI has undergone a significant transformation in recent decades.
  • The Convergence of EDI and EAI: Modern EDI tools now include internal integration capabilities, and EAI solutions support EDI.
  • Cloud Computing and APIs: Cloud computing and API integrations have improved scalability, enabled real-time communication, and reduced costs.
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