Connect With Any Retailer in Hours
All key retailers require complete order automation where all supplier transactions must be electronically processed. This makes their supply-order processing error resistant, speedy, and cost-effective. EDI is a must-have requirement for all key retailers.
Effortless connectivity, Scalability,
and AI Guided Insights
The strength of your supply chain begins with a business network that easily manages peak events and identifies potential issues beforehand. Many IT organizations manage consistently underperforming systems that depend on manual processes and lack visibility.
IBM Sterling® Supply Chain Business Network is a trusted and scalable business-to-business network that automates and manages your supply chain processes, allowing partner collaboration on the same cloud-based platform. Support peak volumes of any transaction type with high availability and AI-powered data insights to help you detect anomalies and take decisive action to avoid disruptions.
Connect your supply chain data, insights and actions across your customers, partners and suppliers on a single business network. Simplify business collaboration anywhere with access to more than 800,000 pre-connected trading partners exchanging billions of EDI documents. As your business grows, get the flexibility to rapidly onboard new partners.
We will connect to your trading partners regardless of their requirements and we support all standard and non-standard transactions. The highlights of retailer transactions are listed below:
- 850 – Also known as an electronic purchase order, an EDI 850 is an EDI transaction that contains order details and is typically sent to a vendor in the beginning of an order process. An EDI 850 is used for unique, recurring, and changing orders from a buyer.
- 860 – Also known as a Purchase Order Change Request, an EDI 860 is sent from a buyer to a seller when the buyer makes changes to their Purchase Order. This transaction streamlines trading partner communication, so changes can be easily made and tracked.
- 855 – Also known as a Purchase Order Acknowledgement, an 855 is normally sent by a seller in response to an EDI 850 Purchase Order. It both confirms the receipt of a new order and tells the buyer if the PO was accepted, required changes, or was rejected. An EDI 855 is often required by large retailers and distributors.
- 856 – Also known as an Advanced Shipment Notice, an EDI 856 describes the contents that have been shipped, the size of the shipment, ship date and in some cases estimated delivery date. It typically follows the payment of goods from a buyer.
- 810 – Also known as an invoice, an EDI 810 document is sent in response to an EDI 850 Purchase Order and requests payments once PO goods are shipped. An EDI 810 often includes data like an invoice number and date, shipping information, item prices/quantities, payment terms, etc.
- 824 – Also known as Application Advice, the EDI 824 notifies the sender of a transaction that their document has been accepted or has errors.
- 864 – The electronic equivalent of a Text Message, an EDI 864 transmits messages in a human-readable format. Messages vary from contracts, explanations, and any extra information which a buyer/seller may require.
- 832 – Also known as a Catalog Price File, an EDI 832 file requests/provides prices and product information.
- 846 – Also known as an Inventory Inquiry/Advice, and EDI 846 is used by buyers and sellers to provide updates regarding inventory levels. It is often utilized in drop ship environments where the retailer controls the eCommerce website.
