EDI introduction

EDI introduction

EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) means a complete electronic transaction of business processes from the order entry up to the delivery, from the inventory control system of the customer to the system of the supplier (here: Hansgrohe)

EDIFACT (Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport) is a branch overlapping international standard for an electronic data exchange.

The main advantages of EDI are:

1. Time
   • immediate data submission at any time
   • reduction of order cycle time
2. Quality
   • no multiple data entry
   • no typing and reading mistakes
   • no hard to read documents
3. Costs
   • no collecting, distributing and archiving of invoices and documents
   • low transaction costs
   • allocation of labor costs