By Boomi
Your organization needs a solution that ensures your purchasing, invoicing, and shipping processes are consistent, efficient, and visible.
After all, if you have an order being shipped on a boat that’s stuck in a canal or on a truck that’s under six feet of snow, you need to know immediately so you can take action and keep your supply chain moving.
Today’s logistics solutions are powered by electronic data interchange (EDI). These software platforms allow the rapid diagnosis of issues and ensure the visibility of your complete order chain.
What is EDI?
An Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is used to rapidly transfer business documents within an organization or between companies. This software solution enables the exchange of data between two or more computers.
Companies that rely on supply chain efficiency prefer to have data delivered in real time, requiring EDI solutions that offer greater visibility and reporting capabilities.
What is EDI Visibility?
EDI visibility is the degree to which an organization can access, monitor, and analyze documents and data shared via EDI.
What Boomi Brings to EDI
The Boomi EDI Dashboard offers expert diagnostic capability by providing human-readable access to all the relevant data inside the EDI documents.
EDI visibility
Explore the full order-to-cash lifecycle of your company’s purchases and shipments within one single view in the Boomi EDI Dashboard. Each exchange of data – known as EDI messages – is tracked, correlated, and displayed on the dashboard.
The Boomi EDI Dashboard can be accessed by stakeholder departments across your organization, such as finance, customer service, and procurement. This means they are able to immediately gain insight into issues they are experiencing with their portion of the order-to-cash process. Organizations can customize their dashboard view to enable more efficient use.
Diagnostic tools
Interfacing with your EDI data has never been easier. Boomi’s EDI Dashboard allows you to search EDI records in three ways.
General search: Search broad fields such as sender name, receiver name, ID, document type, or search by partner.
Transaction search: Make your search more granular with fields such as shipment date, delivery date, buyer part number, or vendor part number.
Track P.O.: Know exactly what you’re looking for? Track using the details of a purchase order.
Reporting you can read
One of the significant benefits of our EDI dashboard is our human-readable reporting. Traditional EDI solutions require an EDI Specialist to translate and map data into formats that anyone can read.
The Boomi EDI Dashboard takes care of that in the background, offering instant insight into the status of your order.
Boomi B2B EDI
Having excellent two-way communication with your trading partners is key to keeping your business running smoothly.
The visibility of the Boomi EDI Dashboard speeds up reporting and response times, safeguarding your supply chain and ensuring you can identify problems and trends more efficiently.
Case study: Reducing response times
A retailer in the athletic footwear and apparel industry was tripping up over slow responses from internal stakeholders, poor EDI visibility, and a system that required EDI specialist intervention to resolve all issues.
They found their second wind using the Boomi EDI Dashboard. Their order-to-cash process was streamlined in a way that reduced response times by 90% – in some cases from days to minutes.
It also gave ownership of the process back to the stakeholders that needed it, creating more efficient workflows and improving both internal and inter-partner communications.
Listen to Boomi experts discuss the capabilities and some use cases of the Boomi EDI Dashboard in this on-demand webinar.
To discuss your specific use case and needs, contact a Boomi EDI specialist today.