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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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EDI Mapping Best Practices: What Gets Missed and Why It Matters

Posted by Brooke Lester on Jul 8, 2026 3:36 PM

EDI Mapping Best Practices Defined

EDI mapping best practices are the standards and processes that define how your system translates data between your internal formats and your trading partners' requirements. When mapping is done well, transactions flow cleanly. When it's not, errors accumulate quietly until something breaks.

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How to Troubleshoot Failed EDI Transactions

Posted by Brooke Lester on Jul 1, 2026 1:35 PM

Has this happened to you? You open your queue on a Monday morning and find a batch of 850 purchase orders sitting in a failed state. No 997 functional acknowledgment came back from your retail partner overnight. Your fulfillment team is already asking questions.

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Why Trading Partner Onboarding Fails and How to Fix It

Posted by Brooke Lester on Jun 10, 2026 12:11 PM

Trading partner onboarding is the process of establishing reliable, secure connections for exchanging documents with customers, suppliers, and distributors. This involves configuring EDI partner setup, aligning document standards, and ensuring data can flow smoothly between systems. Despite its straightforward appearance, this process has a high rate of failure.

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EDI and B2B Resume Tips to Make You Stand Out

Posted by Brooke Lester on May 4, 2026 2:40 PM

Even in a tight labor market with more openings than candidates, rising inflation, increasing producer costs, and a shift back toward pre-pandemic unemployment levels make this the right time to update and refine your resume.

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2026 EDI Trends: What IT Leaders Should Be Watching Now

Posted by Brooke Lester on Feb 25, 2026 2:05 PM

If you are still viewing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) as a back-office utility that quietly hums in the background, it might be time to look again.

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