Even as complementary data exchange formats for electronic sales such as APIs become more widely adopted, total EDI sales volume and EDI as a percentage of all B2B sales have increased every year since 2016, demonstrating the critical role of EDI in the modern economy.
1 2021 Digital Commerce 360 B2B Market Report
Unlike electronic sales and EDI, non-electronic B2B sales have seen steep declines each year since 2018 in total volume and as a percentage of all B2B sales, potentially spelling growth trouble for companies who rely heavily on manual sales processes and transactions.
2 2021 Digital Commerce 360 B2B Market Report
Replacing File-Based FTP with an API for Advance Shipment Notices
Situation: Remedi’s customer, a global manufacturer of original and after-market automotive power solutions, received notice from a large customer requiring all suppliers supplies replace their file based FTP integration with an API for Advance Shipment Notices (ASN).
Solution: Thanks to having Sterling B2B Integrator, IBM’s robust middleware integration software package, further extended and enhanced by the Remedi Framework visibility tool already deployed, the supplier easily and quickly supported the new requirement.
Impact on Business: By using an established platform already tightly integrated with downstream systems, Remedi’s customer met the EDI replacement requirement well before the compliance deadline while incurring no additional software licensing or costs.
Restore Integration Environment After Crash
Situation: Remedi received a call on a Friday afternoon from a global maker of educational toys for children requesting help with an unusual but urgent need. Their Gentran environment crashed and would need to be rebuilt from scratch.
Solution: Within hours Remedi assembled a team of EDI mappers. The team immediately began rebuilding the 150 maps that drive the company’s supply chain and revenue cycle. The team first triaged the invoice and purchase order maps and then focused on restoring the rest of the company’s maps lost during the crash.
Impact on Business: The Remedi EDI team rebuilt the core maps rebuilt in a few days. In turn, the company could resume business operations with minimal disruption to their production commitments or order to cash flows. Ultimately the Remedi team took just two weeks to rebuild the entire environment from scratch.
EDI Remapping To Support Migration to Cloud-Based ERP
Situation: As part of their move from a legacy ERP system to a cloud solution a national pharmacy benefits company needed to rewrite all their trading partner maps within a four-month time frame. Together, the EDI documents dictated the flow of data and revenue generated by the more than 700 million prescriptions the company processed each year.
Solution: Based on the trust built from previous project work, the EDI manager at the company engaged Remedi to locate Remedi to locate consultants with expertise in the Seeburger integration platform. Scope included BOD gap analysis, identification of non-standard identifiers, and collaborating with other team members where needed to re-engineer or re-configure the workflow.
Impact on Business: Thanks to a deep bench of vetted specialists, Remedi delivered two full-time consultants within a week who began work on the re-mapping shortly thereafter. The customer’s confidence in the quality of Remedi’s past work and responsiveness protected the company from the risk of entrusting a critical ERP migration project to a new vendor.
