EDI - Case Studies
Situation: Medium-sized beauty-care products manufacturer and importer. E-mail us for EDI.
Problem: Accounts receivable function in bad shape with unacceptable outstanding receivables, in addition to invoices not being sent in a timely manner and poor document control procedures. Our EDI services.
Solution: Implemented a system whereby all the invoicing data is captured at invoicing time. Then an automated procedure is executed that performs these three steps:

1. An image of the invoice is posted to a secure Web site so that it can be viewed or printed by the customer or salesperson.
2. An electronic EDI invoice is sent automatically to the customer.
3. An image of the invoice is filed on the internal network that is indexed by customer, by date, and by salesperson.

Customers are now receiving the invoices within a day of being prepared. Access by either customer or internal staff is immediate either through Web site or internal network. Storage and archiving are handled automatically. Average outstanding receivables reduced by twenty-four days. 

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Situation: Small industrial products distributor.
Problem: Had a large customer forcing them to do EDI. They were concerned about high cost and disruption to operations.
Solution: Implemented a turn-key EDI system for less than $10,000 in less than two weeks that is totally automated. The system has now been expanded to trade electronically with other customers and suppliers. Estimated overhead savings of $40,000 annually along with being the preferred trading partner to his two largest customers.
Situation: Medium-sized apparel manufacturer.
Problem: High volume of data to be keyed into order entry system requiring large staff and resulting in unacceptable error rate.
Solution: Integrated purchase orders into order entry system. The new automated system reduced data entry by 80% and eliminated keying errors for that percentage.