Why use Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) for your business? Put simply, EDI technology enables businesses to share data (business documents in a standard electronic format) from computer-to-computer and between business partners. As a result, EDI offers smoother, more timely and more accurate business transactions with less cost than manual processing.
Related to your organization, consider how it performs. Think about the industry, your business competitors, performance both internally and externally, as well as your specific areas of expertise. Having considered all the areas of your business, which when combined properly, contribute to the success of your business, now consider the areas of your business needing expert-level attention to produce high-level results.
Now is the time for complete honesty. Ask yourself:
- Are you meeting all the performance requirements at an expert level?
- Are there internal processing areas of your business that could be better?
- How is your overall customer satisfaction?
- What are your overall internal and manual processing expenses?
These are fundamentally important questions to consider for your business and the long-term impact your business performance has on your brand reputation and overall success. In this age of online activity, bad business reviews spread rapidly, and your brand can be tarnished by consumers and organizations instantly. Where does your business performance stand?
Improve Business Productivity with EDI
Using EDI for your business is one step of many to get your business to optimum success. Not sure how EDI works? Considering an EDI outsourcing partner means opening your business up to the expert-level guidance of an EDI expert. As you are an expert in your business and industry, your EDI process outsourcing partner should be as well. By choosing an EDI outsourcing expert partner, your business stands to inherit the reputation of the partner business, as well as benefit from that partner’s technology investments and industry expertise.
A good choice for an EDI outsourcing partner demonstrates their ability to work with an EDI organization capable of scaling EDI processing to any size business account with ease and efficiency. This type of efficient EDI processing is difficult to achieve through a vast majority of trading partners not specializing in specific areas of business outsourcing. As a result of choosing the right EDI outsourcing partner, your organization can experience the benefits of EDI, while substantially reducing your business costs using improved software, regular maintenance and the drastic reduction of error handling.
What to Look for In an EDI Partner
The true definition of Outsourcing is that it “requires the buyer to relinquish control of a process to the supplier, who is an expert in the process and able to perform it better, faster and cheaper.” Processing EDI comes with the burden of meeting stringent processing regulations and requirements for its outsourcing partners. Because processing EDI properly requires high security for the data being processed, the EDI outsourcing partner must use:
- Secure facilities
- A redundant IT back-up system
- Firewalls
- Environmental control
- Fire suppression
- Restricted physical access to secure facilities
- 24-hour monitoring
- Disaster recovery data plan
- Excess capacity for telecommunications
In terms of acquiring a qualified EDI outsourcing partner, choosing EDI outsourcing solutions can be supported by reassigning internal EDI processing staff to other areas of the business where they are needed more. This increases productivity internally for your business, while allowing experts to process your EDI data more accurately and for less expense than manual processing.
The standard total amount spent by a company for one year of EDI outsourcing is less than the annual salaries and benefits paid to the personnel. Human error can also be an issue and expense. Furthermore, the associated financial commitment and time spent recruiting qualified individuals for in-house processing is also high.
Meet Your Expert EDI Partner
Integration, Inc. is an industry-leading business process automation provider specializing in business process automation services, such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), check writing, check printing, check processing, rebate processing, barcode labels and third party billing to thousands of companies across the globe. As a primary business process automation outsourcing provider, Integration’s goal is to empower all its client’s to focus on their core areas of expertise, while leaving the business process automation services to our team of experts. This is accomplished by supplying excellent business process automation services that enhance your company’s ability to provide increased reliability and cost savings to your customers.
Integration enables your company’s success by providing complete IT outsourcing solutions for business process automation. As a result, this allows your organization to respond rapidly to changing business environments, while meeting your customer’s needs consistently and in a more cost-effective manner. https://www.integrationinc.com/
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