QAD Cloud EDI Overview

EDI is an expectation in many industries, and successful enterprises turn this base requirement into a competitive advantage by:

Reducing operating cost through outsourcing EDI services and eliminating the need for infrastructure and in-house expertise.
Speeding implementation of trading partner changes under a consolidated service provider so business analysts can primarily focus on growth projects
Improving visibility of EDI communication to prove successful transactions and receive alerts for communication issues with any and all partners
Preventing customs delays

Compliance and data security - Ensuring data security and compliance with various regulations can be challenging when dealing with global suppliers and customers.
Diverse formats - Vetting suppliers and gaining customers is hard enough, dealing with various standards can slow the already complex process
Consistent execution - knowledgeable EDI resources are hard to come by, but you can’t afford to risk customer relationships by not having an expert on hand
Integration and accuracy - ensuring robust connections with business systems for timely transmission of error-free data is critically important but challenging to achieve on your own

Capabilities

Communication

QAD Cloud EDI provides connectivity for customers through direct communication or Value Added Network (VAN), supporting major global communication requirements.

Translation

The platform supports a wide range of global EDI standards (ANSI X12, EDIFACT, VDA, ODETTE, EANCOM, TRADACOM) and non-EDI formats (XML, CSV, flat files), accommodating various trading partner requirements.

Tracking

Dashboard and workbench offer full monitoring and tracing capabilities for both EDI translation and communication services.

Integrated

Works alongside standard QAD application capabilities around inbound and outbound communications

QAD EDI offers manufacturers an end-to-end EDI solution that simplifies the experience of running and using EDI while providing improved EDI business effectiveness, flexibility, security and performance. QAD offers both a best-of-breed EDI software solution for manufacturers preferring to operate their own hardware and infrastructure, and a cloud option to deliver EDI software-as-a-service that eliminates the chore of maintaining infrastructure and software.

Readily meet customer and industry EDI mandates
Speed up integration with trading partners
Optimize material and component inventory control and pricing
Easily support new EDI format, mapping and translation requirements to meet changing requirements of current partners
Tap into a well-established and growing EDI community for new transactional approaches
Reduce the number of shop floor emergencies and missed deliveries and improve order-to-delivery
Interoperate with multiple ERPs, supply chain solutions and other enterprise applications
Avoid costly and risky custom integrations: Supports in-depth integration with QAD Adaptive ERP and QAD Enterprise Applications to support areas like customer consignment consumption, supplier drop ship (EMT), Kanban activity and ASNs
Reduce operating cost and risk by using the global, secure and scalable EDI infrastructure to support transacting from anywhere to anywhere
Work with a proven team of global EDI experts to help with training, implementation and support

QAD EDI consists of two primary components: QAD EDI eCommerce provides a best-of-breed EDI solution for manufacturers that prefer to configure, run and maintain their own hardware and software infrastructure. QAD Cloud EDI provides global EDI-as-a-Service for manufacturers that want to offload running the EDI hardware/software and ongoing management of EDI software. In both cases, QAD offers proven, performant end-to-end approaches with in-depth ERP integration.

QAD Cloud EDI is a proven global software-as-a-service solution for EDI that enables manufacturers to focus on their core business rather than retaining EDI development expertise operations in-house.

Runs on reliable and secure SSAE 16 certified data centers, available and supported around the cloud
Provides rich transactional formatting options, including QAD Cloud EDI community formats
Readily integrates with QAD Adaptive ERP and other QAD applications
Provides a flexible, redundant site topology so services can run a either a primary or secondary site
A reliable service topology includes 3 independent virtual environments with data replication
Includes periodic backups and disaster recovery
Users can be seamlessly redirected to their chosen service regardless of where it is running
Multiple ISDN lines for each site
QAD Cloud EDI Dashboard enables users to monitor transactions and receive alerts via web browser and/or mobile devices

QAD EDI eCommerce is QAD’s best-of-breed EDI solution for managing EDI with QAD’s and other vendors ERP and related applications.

Supports HTTP connectivity with external applications and all EDI exchange standards including ANSI X.12, EDIFACT, ODETTE, VDA, RND and XML/EDI
Supports the creation and modification of trading partner maps at the user level
Optimizes the exchange of business documents using QAD’s standards neutral format (SNF) XML-formatted messages
Recognizes inbound XML documents and translates them
Allows trading partners to mark exported data elements with specified XML tags
Provides the message transport services between applications
The Trading Partner Library, accessible from the QAD web site, acts as a starting point repository to enhance, modify or add new trading partners
QAD EDI specialists help ensure successful implementations on-premise or in the cloud

“EDI is crucial for our relationships with our customers and it is a great advantage being able to depend on QAD Cloud EDI for their experience, knowledge and support.”

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