B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

Today's highly globalized supply chain ecosystem has made it critical for trading partners to maintain advanced levels of communication throughout the product lifecycle. Seamless information flow from suppliers to distributors and retailers is essential to optimize supply chain visibility and manage inventory levels efficiently without compromising customer satisfaction.

Since its advent in the 1960s, EDI has gained vast inroads in supply chain operations. As one of the most valuable tech investments for supply chain management, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) has consistently proven effective at improving supply chain efficiency and helping companies maximize the advantages of trading partner collaboration. Today, many of the largest, most successful manufacturing, distribution, and retail companies utilize EDI solutions to exchange business information autonomously and in real time.

Electronic Data Interchange has played a critical role in logistics for decades. Since the 1960s, transportation companies have used EDI to transform their operations from disorganized and complicated to streamlined and efficient. With EDI, modern-day logistics enterprises automate the generation and sharing of procurement, shipping, and payment information, resulting in better coordination, reduced errors, and lower costs across supply chains.

If you are in the logistics sector, you know better than anyone how challenging it has become to stay afloat amid hurdles like the pandemic, mounting competition, and changing customer expectations. The margin of acceptable inefficiencies is now essentially non-existent. Companies that are not doing enough to optimize operations risk falling dangerously behind.

This global building products maker serving commercial and residential customers has been a Fortune 500 company for more than half a century—and a Remedi client since 1994. Their story illustrates Remedi's ability to tailor managed EDI services to the customer’s unique needs, and the value this customer derives from the relationship.