AutoPower EDI Module

 

 

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The AutoPower EDI Module sends and receives electronic documents. Typically EDI Documents (Purchase Orders, Order Confirmations, Invoices, and Advanced Shipping Notices) are transmitted between Trading Partners directly or using EDI network service providers also known as Value-Added Networks (VANs).  Both of these transmission types are called Gateways in this document.

 

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The EDI Module also incorporates the ability to deal with proprietary data exchanges where transmission formatting, form, data and use are tailored to a specific business need.  

 

The EDI Module has four major components:

Settings

Monitoring

Integration

Quarterback

 

 

Settings-  The Settings controls all of the rules and preferences for all EDI exchanges. This includes overall configuration, master EDI documents and settings related to connections to your trading partners.

 

Monitoring- The EDI Monitor provides an overview all documents received and sent. The Monitor display date-time, status, gateway and trading partner information and reach-through ability to details about each EDI exchange.

 

Integration- EDI standards define which pieces of information are required and which are optional for a particular EDI document and establishes the rules for the structure of the document. Just as two houses can be built “to code” but look very different, two EDI documents can follow the same standard but contain different pieces of information. Integration is performed by AutoPower for each of your trading partners and the desired EDI document types to be exchanged.

 

Quarterback – The EDI Quarterback will be used extensively in your organization to deal with EDI documents with procession exceptions and/or those documents requiring manual intervention to be processed.