For buying organizations seeking efficiency in their complex supply chains, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) solutions are essential for streamlining operations and maximizing connectivity. Traditionally, in-house EDI management involves a dedicated team to maintain data mapping and translation software, creating a complex and costly process. Cloud-based Data Mapping offers an alternative to in-house EDI that eliminates these burdens and enables buying organizations to reduce manual data entry, errors, and costs associated with maintaining in-house operations. 

With Edict Systems’ Cloud-based Data Mapping solution, our EDI experts handle the EDI data mapping and translation for you. Getting started with Cloud-based Data Mapping is easy as we provide a technical project manager to oversee your implementation from start to finish, including testing and production. In this blog, we’ll cover what Cloud-based Data Mapping is and how it can benefit your business.

What is Cloud-based Data Mapping?

EDI streamlines business-to-business communication by converting business documents, like purchase orders, invoices, and shipping notices, into standardized electronic formats, making it easy to share across different systems. Instead of burdening internal resources with mapping rules and multiple EDI formats, an EDI provider like Edict Systems handles this process in the cloud. Our Cloud-based Data Mapping solution translates data into your required format, helping save time and money.

With Cloud-based Data Mapping, internal system data is mapped to your EDI specifications and delivered to your suppliers in a format that works best for them, ensuring accurate delivery. EDI data originating from your suppliers is then mapped, or translated, to your unique specifications for secure and direct integration with your system, no matter which file type your system uses. Cloud-based Data Mapping allows for data exchange to and from any EDI format or business, accounting, or ERP system, creating an efficient and reliable process, even if your integration requirements, systems, or transactions change.

Benefits of Cloud-based Data Mapping

Cloud-based Data Mapping significantly enhances your operational efficiency across departments by removing expensive onsite software and eliminating maintenance expenses that come along with it. Here’s what we do for your business:

• Map All Inbound and Outbound Transactions: We map your inbound transaction data to your internal system specifications, regardless of data type, and map your outbound transactions to your trading partners’ specifications.
• Any Data—Any Integration:  Cloud-based Data Mapping supports a wide range of EDI documents and data formats. Our mapping allows any EDI document or data format to be mapped to data formats such as EDI, XML, iDoc, and CSV for integration various ERP and accounting systems, including PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, NetSuite, SAP, and many others.
• Specification Review for Each Trading Partner: All trading partner specifications are reviewed for data mapping compliance.
• Trading Partner Onboarding, Testing, and Certification: We work with each of your trading partners for Testing & Certification and onboarding.
• Ongoing Integration and Transaction Maintenance: If your integration requirements, systems, or trading partner transactions change, we are here to support you.
• Web-based Interface for Visibility and Management: An easy-to-use browser interface securely allows multiple levels of users to see and manage trading partners and transactions.
• Significant Cost Savings: Outsourcing your data mapping to a cloud-based provider eliminates the cost of maintaining in-house capabilities and personnel, and reduces ongoing maintenance, allowing you to strategically repurpose valuable resources towards core business objectives.

Our Cloud-based B2B Trading Network maximizes supplier EDI participation, onboarding, and EDI program development.

We Do EDI So You Don't Have To.^®

Edict Systems’ comprehensive EDI services help ease the burdens associated with in-house EDI operations. Our Cloud-based Data Mapping solution helps remove the complexities of data mapping, translation, and integration so buying organizations can reallocate resources, streamline business processes, and improve connectivity with their suppliers. For suppliers looking to increase efficiency with their customers, Integrated EDI helps streamline transaction processing, increase profitability and competitiveness, and improve customer trading relationships.

Read more about Integrated EDI capabilities and benefits here.

Our EDI experts help you get started with data mapping and translation services, regardless of EDI data format or system. You will be assigned a dedicated project manager to handle initial setup, testing, and production. Cloud-based Data Mapping offers the efficiency your business needs to streamline processes, ensure speed and accuracy of business transactions, and maximize the value of your EDI investment.