Entrust EDI is an ERP-agnostic solution that enables the automation of document exchange between a business, its trading partners, and customers. This Entrust EDI Automation Demo shows the manual steps Entrust EDI can remove from the document exchange process. This saves time, cuts down on errors, and improves supplier/trading partner relationships.
Implementation of the Entrust EDI solution will depend on your business’s level of preparation before engaging with Encompass. You can begin the process of readying your business by completing a simple checklist. We’ve outlined an EDI readiness checklistHERE with the most common information required to move forward with an EDI implementation project.
To expedite the process, you can complete the EDI discovery questionnaire at your convenience. This will help both Encompass and your organization to move through to implementation more swiftly.
For an idea of the costs associated with implementing EDI, you can use our convenient EDI quote calculator tool.
Want to know more about Entrust EDI? Contact our representatives from the Entrust EDI support team at edisupport@encompass-inc.com or get in touch with us for a general inquiry using the Contact Us link at the bottom of this page.
Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, or renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.
For businesses whose operations increasingly span the globe, connectivity is not an option but a strategic imperative. One of the reasons for this is the accelerating pace of change and innovation driving market demand. Markets are inherently dynamic, often volatile, and supply networks that are widely dispersed and highly nuanced need to access information as it emerges, when it emerges, accurately, anywhere. This is necessary for operational efficiency, but also effective collaboration, meaningful analysis, and supported decision-making.
Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, or renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.
The following form is intended to both educate companies on what information is needed to complete an EDI implementation and to allow prospective Entrust EDI customers to submit their EDI implementation or migration project details electronically. If you would like to submit a project RFP using this form, please fill out all fields in as much detail as possible, where applicable. This will ensure projects can be quoted, outlined, and started promptly.
By submitting this EDI implementation questionnaire, you consent to receive communications from Encompass Solutions regarding our services and your proposed project.
In the meantime, we invite you to review the following Entrust EDI resources:
What Is EDI? Electronic Data Interchange, is defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology as, “the computer-to-computer interchange of strictly formatted messages that represent documents other than monetary instruments. EDI implies a sequence of messages between two parties, either of whom may serve as originator or recipient. The formatted data representing the documents may be transmitted from originator to recipient via telecommunications or physically transported on electronic storage media.” However, it can be summarized as a process by which computer systems exchange business documents quickly and securely in a standard electronic format. Some examples of those electronic formats include those from ANSI, EDIFACT, TRADACOMS, and ebXML.
What Is EDI Efficiency
By shedding traditional paper-based systems, businesses and their partners can take advantage of a host of benefits that EDI provides. Those benefits include, but are not limited to faster production speeds, fewer errors, reduced costs, and stronger more reliable partnerships.
When it comes to Electronic Commerce (EC), also known as e-commerce/eCommerce, EDI provides an essential method for carrying out business functions relating to information exchange, monetary transactions, and purchasing both in business-to-business and business-to-consumer relationships.
EDI helps eliminate human participation in the exchange of essential documents throughout business processes. In short, EDI helps automate tedious and error-prone business processes.
What Is EDI Security
When it comes to how EDI can affect your company’s business processes with customers and partners, security becomes one of the most important factors to consider. By doing away with paper systems and outdated technology, like phone, fax, and email conversations, your business can take advantage of more comprehensive and secure exchange methods. Consider these benefits when it comes to implementing an EDI solution for your business:
Audit trails
Contingency planning
Use of acknowledgments
Electronic document management
Activities of supporting networks
User access controls to systems and networks
Cryptographic techniques for authentication and confidentiality
Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm specializing in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of the Industry.
So, what is this EDI specialist business that you’ve been hearing about? Great question, let’s answer it with another question: Do you like jumping through hoops and going through tedious manual processes when trying to interpret or convert the most simple, but sometimes most important, electronic documents from your business partners?
No? Surprise, surprise!
The EDI Specialist Is Definitely Something You Need
Here’s the real answer as to why enlisting the help of an EDI specialist can be invaluable for your business. An EDI specialist is an expert in Electronic data interchange (EDI), which is the computer to computer exchange of business documents in a standard electronic format between business partners. They’re basic files you’re already familiar with: the purchase order, the Advanced Shipping Notice), the invoice, and more. Even though there are widely accepted standards on how to exchange these electronic documents, each company can format the transactions and data to best fit their business needs.
What EDI does is use “maps” to connect each document’s data format to the format needs of the receiver systems. Once the data is mapped, the receiver can then receive the data into their internal system to be processed. The transfer of information from one partner to the next is seamless between systems!
One of the biggest advantages of exchanging documents electronically is the lower margin for error. Not only is the data sent securely over the internet, but it avoids the hassle and vulnerability of being hand entered by an entry team. EDI also gives companies a faster order cycle time resulting in automated processes and instant communication with trading partners.
So with all the benefits, why haven’t you been utilizing EDI all along? It is no secret that many companies are faced with daunting deadlines, never-ending priorities, and a constant change of focus. They may feel lost on where to start or find it difficult to form an implementation or integration game plan. They may not have the resources, and struggle to achieve desired results. That’s where an experienced and professional partnership with a services organization can really benefit one’s business.
Allow that partnership to create a robust execution method for implementation of your EDI services with your business goals and systems in mind. This permits you to focus on your business while the services organization adds additional value by guiding your company through EDI implementation, supporting your business with expertise, and creating competitive advantages against your competitors.
So don’t wait! Now that you have all the questions answered, get started today with an EDI implementation through a services organization and take full advantage of goal-focused improvements and endless benefits that accompany exchanging business documents electronically through EDI!
Our EDI Solutions
What differentiates Epicor’s B2B Integration and EDI Managed Service On-Demand from other business integration solutions is the ability to provide our customers with the identical software tools if the business need outgrows that of an outsourced solution. Epicor’s on-demand data integration software uses its commercially available and fully supported software tools to connect our customers to their business partners as a service. As trading partner or application maps, profiles, and workflows are created for your business-specific environment, they are always available to the customer to utilize internally. The EDI Managed Service On-Demand solution grows as your business needs dictate.
Epicor’s EDI integration technology is now available on demand for customers looking to outsource their eCommerce function. Epicor has an array of service-based XML/EDI, data synchronization, and B2B integration offerings that allow organizations to reap the full benefit of Epicor’s powerful Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Customers outsourcing eCommerce processes to Epicor enjoy the advantages of true eBusiness—conducting business electronically with any party regardless of the service or solution their business partners use.
Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of Industry.
