EDI for Sales Orders

thomast

Hi Guys,

In our company we are spending a LOT of time entering Sales Orders and thought it would be great if our customers could just send their orders to us electronically. The problem is that all these customers will send in different formats and therefore we are looking for some kind of solution that can handle incoming sales orders in many different formats.

Any ideas / Suggestions?

Thanks

xStepa

Hi, this is a huge area, so just a few tips:
1) Biztalk server
2) EDI operator (payed 3rd-party service on both sides) who then transforms all formats to one
3) N2017 has something like PEPOL format capability, but I've never used/not applicable there
4) your own solution based on middle tier documents - same principles are used with bank statements imports (many formats => one intermediate table => general journal). So in your case, the process should look like: import file (XML, CSV, what ever) to EDI Document table (with minimum validations), then correct errors with item numbering, units of measure and press CreateOrder
5) use web portal (eshop if you have one) to handle it

S.

thomast

Cool! Thanks again Stepa!