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Jul 12
2011
Written By psmith
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Electronic Document Exchange is the ability for one business to communicate programmatically with another business to improve the efficiency of sending and receiving business documents of all types included but not limited to purchase orders, invoices, shipping documents, catalog inventory, credit memos, etc. The automation of delivering these documents securely with reliable confirmation over the internet directly into your company's back end software without human intervention is the very concept of Electronic Document Exchange.

Making Business Easier and More Efficient
Knowing what to expect from your B2B partner on a daily basis and understanding how to make doing business easier and more efficient gives your business the advantage in the ever so competitive market.
Electronic Document Exchange gives your business the opportunity to become extremely productive and opens doors to your B2B trading partners that might otherwise be time consuming and to costly to implement.
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Just as you may have a customer service rep on the computer interfacing with the software communicating with the customer entering and looking up data. You can also have a API (Application Programming Interface) that does the exact same thing automated with no human interaction in entering and looking up that data. Electronic Document Exchange is the service that will never rest and is always ready to send and receive data on demand.

Electronic Document Exchange is format free, what that means is regardless of your document format whether it be XML, EDI, character delimited, etc. it does not matter. You will be sending and receiving documents in the native format that your ERP or back end software uses, this eliminates the need to know the format that your B2B partner uses. No longer need to take the time to learn drawn out complicated schemas and formats as you would using EDI. You send your documents "as is" when they are exported from your software and you receive your documents "ready to go" in your format in position to be imported into your software.



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