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How reliant is your Company on EDI?
Many companies now rely on EDI more than ever, not only for Orders and Invoices, but for Shipping Notices (ASNs), cost pricing information and catalogue information, to name a few.
Large Retailers, including Sainsbury are pushing Suppliers to provide more information electronically and are actively rolling programs out to their Suppliers to ensure that the are compliant with these documents.
But how many Companies are out there running unsupported version of EDI software on unsupported versions of Operating Systems (OS) and have no idea as to the value that these systems bring, until they fail.
When they fail, you could be faced with charges, for undelivered or incorrect Orders and Delivery, unpaid Invoices and you could even be dropped as a Supplier.
ACT NOW
Talk to your hardware supplier to ensure that your OS is current and supported. IBM have the details of OS/400 releases on their website.
Talk to you EDI supplier to ensure that you are on a supported version of software. Inovis provides information on TrustedLink and Biz software on the Customer Portal.
Ensure you are running a regular purge on your EDI system. Gwyn Madsen gave some good advice on TrustedLink iSeries (TLi) purging in her blog last month
Whatever you do, do something, as you don’t want it to all end in tears.
25 November 2009 at 5:32 pm |
[...] It’ll all end in tears – In this post, Tracey provides some pointers on how to avoid charges, undelivered or incorrect orders and delivery, unpaid invoices or even being dropped as a supplier. [...]