EDI using EDIFACT and X12

Make the right cost-benefit analysis

Receiving electronic invoices from key suppliers, sending electronic invoices to your loyal customers. What appears temptingly simple, may not be all that seems. With a tailored approach, you can save even more administrative costs and deploy new business partners faster.

In many cases, working with existing e-invoice hub services will be sufficient. But there are several situations where custom-made development based on EDIFACT and X12 may offer more advantageous when:

• the transaction costs of the hub services seem spiraling upwards
• your various business partners work with a multitude of hubs
• you opt to automate your invoicing with a limited number of business partners
• your business process does not fully match a standardized approach

Flexible order to cash processes

We have been assisting many of our customers with how to better integrate their order to-cash processes by introducing tailor-made electronic invoicing. You can be assured of our thorough knowledge of the good old standards EDIFACT and X12.

Most importantly, we understand that this integration process is ongoing because of the continuous ebb and flow of customer and suppliers. Therefore, a degree of flexibility is factored into our integration concepts from the get go to reflect any major changes in your business relation. We’ll implement them faster than you expect.

Read on if you want more information on EDI standards, and discover why some people are opting to work with X12, XML and EDIFACT.