Retailer EDI
Quick Start Program

Retailers Series

Retailer EDI Quick Start Program

SoftCare recognizes that for many retailers involved in the implementation of EDI, there are simply too many things to do to effectively implement EDI. With this in mind, SoftCare has created its Retailer Quick Start Program, which is a comprehensive program for retailers to link and utilize their information to send and receive business documents electronically to/from its supply chain. It leverages SoftCare’s experience in retailing and implementation of thousands of EDI trading partners to create a “Best Practices” approach to Retailer EDI. The final solution provides a centralized EDI management system to audit, manage and control the movement of information from/to a retailer’s back-end systems right through to/from its trading partners.

SoftCare's Retailer EDI Quick Start Program provides the software and services, required to implement and effective EDI program for a retailer. The SoftCare Solution’s Group provides necessary consulting services to determine:

• Where the required item information resides (internally and externally)

• What transformations are required to format the information to you and your trading partners needs

• How the EDI documents should be passed to your trading partners

• What is the most cost effective method to communicate EDI documents

• What is the business process to move/receive the information to/from the retailer’s supply chain

Once the implementation “roadmap” is completed, the next step is to implement the solution to export/import business information from/to a company’s back-end systems, transform it and communicate-it-to/receive-it-from your supply chain using the OpenEC® TradeLink EDI Management System. This step involves working with a retailer’s staff to configure TradeLink to meet their business needs. Once completed, the Solutions Group will test with a company’s trading partners and train internal staff on how to implement future partners within TradeLink. The Solutions Group can train your internal staff or can be contracted to implement new trading partners as necessary. The key to SoftCare’s Retailer EDI Quick Start program is to provide a “one stop shopping” approach for the software and services required to implement “Best Practices” EDI program for non-EDI retailers or retailer’s who have not fully enjoyed the benefits of EDI.

Some of the key features of the Retailer Quick Start program and TradeLink are are:

• Proven track record of implementation of thousands of EDI trading partnerships

• Over 25 years experience in Retailing and the implementation of EDI.

• SoftCare can provide all the software, services and consulting to implement and rollout EDI to a retailers supply chain.

• Superior audit to track the movement of documents from an organizations back end applications to/from its trading partners.

• Graphical web based front end allows for distributed or centralized document management.

• Multiple consistent levels of audit (Operations Summary, Business Process, Task, File and Document) allow an end user to quickly identify and efficiently track document “problems”.

• Concise and complete reporting of all processing in one report. The Audit function allows the user to generate reports on all EDI activity in whatever time frame necessary

• Support of all ANSI X12, UN/EDIFACT, HIPAA and xCBL standards

• Support for EDI over the Internet using our AS2 compliant EDI communications module. This allows for communications using secure email (S/MIME), secure HTTP (HTTPS) or secure FTP (FTPS) for reduced communications costs

• Event Driven Alert Manager of EDI/XML business processes to allow the end user to receive email notification of  problems in document processing in real-time

• Simple, complete Business Process Management using Web services and BPEL to fully integrate the business processes to move business documents of any format to/from organizations back-end systems.

• Extended Mapping Functionality to quickly and efficiently define and manage XML transformations to move EDI, XML or Flat Files from/to TradeLink to/from business systems.

• Payload independent secure routing of all data types, including any XML, EDI, TXT, ASCII and Binary formats to external or internal trading partners. 

• Risk-free migration from VAN, direct-connect and paper communication methods

• Built-in transaction tracking, reporting and data retention with actionable audit trails and persistent queuing

• Operates on UNIX, Linux, NT, XP, Windows 2000. 

Continue to: Retailing Scan Based Trading Quick Start Program

For more information about SoftCare, TradeLink EDI Management System,
and the SoftCare Solutions Group please contact us at:

Web: www.softcare.com

Tel : 1-888-SoftCare   (604) 983-8083

email: info@softcare.com

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