Automate EDI and protect margins
Keep Orders Moving And Protect Your Margins With Deacom
Deacom ERP helps manufacturers automate EDI, the electronic exchange of order, shipping, and invoice information with customers, distributors, and retailers, without building an in-house EDI team.
The cost of manual EDI
EDI, or Electronic Data Interchange, is how many customers, distributors, and retailers send purchase orders and expect invoices and shipping updates in return. It replaces emails, spreadsheets, portals, and manual re-entry with a structured electronic exchange of business documents.
EDI is often a requirement for businesses making foods, beverages, nutraceuticals, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, coatings and paints, chemicals, and more, that do business with larger trading partners. But managing different requirements, testing processes, and transaction exceptions can quickly overwhelm a busy team.
The results are manual data entry, delayed shipments, invoice errors, and costly chargebacks that eat into profits.
EDI functionality built in
Deacom ERP connects EDI activity directly to the order, inventory, shipping, and financial data your team uses every day, helping you manage trading-partner onboarding, mapping, testing, and ongoing monitoring.
Automate key transactions, including purchase orders, invoices, and advance shipping notices (ASNs), while supporting common standards.
What better EDI with Deacom looks like
- Move orders faster. Automatically bring purchase orders into Deacom and send invoices and advance shipping notices (ASNs) electronically.
- Reduce chargebacks. Catch and resolve transaction issues before they become financial penalties, protecting your margins.
- Onboard partners faster. Use built processes and templates to get new customers online in less time.
- Keep your focus on the business. Manage mappings, testing, and support, without adding EDI specialists.
- Scale with confidence. Add distributors or retailers without repeated EDI rework.
EDI affects every role in your business
When order, shipment, and invoice information moves accurately between your customers and ERP, your teams spend less time correcting data and more time producing, shipping, and serving customers. Automated EDI helps ensure the information used across the business is timely and consistent, from the moment an order is received until it is invoiced.
| Area of business | Automated EDI impact |
|---|---|
| Operations | Gets automated purchase orders and ASN flows, fewer manual fixes, and faster fulfillment. |
| Warehouse and shipping | Gets timely, accurate order and shipping information to help prevent missed or incorrect shipments. |
| IT | Gets one integrated vendor relationship and fewer custom middleware points to maintain. |
| Finance | Gets more accurate invoicing and reconciliation, with fewer chargebacks. |
| Leadership | Gets more predictable customer onboarding and lower operational risk. |
Make EDI a growth enabler, not a bottleneck
Trading-partner requirements continue to evolve. A connected EDI approach helps you respond faster to customer demands, protect key relationships, and take on new business without adding unnecessary complexity or headcount.