Grocery Industry
The grocery industry is an old pro when it comes to EDI. As early as 1976, the industry was looking toward EDI as a possible solution to the ever-growing amount of paperwork required to do routine business. With the help of the Uniform Communication Standard (UCS), EDI standards were released in 1982 for general use by the grocery industry.
Today, EDI use in the grocery industry is more prevalent than ever. UCS has kept up with emerging technologies such as EDIINT AS2, a secure communications standard used to transfer EDI over the Internet.
Some of the common EDI transactions being exchanged within the grocery retail industry are listed next.
| ANSI X12 Standard |
UN/EDIFACT Standard |
| 810 invoice |
INVOIC invoice |
| 880 grocery products invoice |
| 820 payment order/remittance advice |
PAYORD payment order |
| REMADV remittance advice |
| 850 purchase order |
ORDERS purchase order |
| 875 grocery products purchase order |
| 855 purchase order acknowledgment |
ORDRSP |
Softshare is very familiar with these EDI transactions, and our various EDI solutions support all of them.
Our enterprise integration solution, which consists of Softshare Delta, our data translator, and Softshare ECS, our e-commerce communications server, provides for seamless integration of EDI into your overall business processes. Softshare's professional services group can assist with implementation or provide training if you want to develop your own data translation maps.
If your company is not ready for full-scale EDI integration, you can connect to your grocery partners using Softshare Athena, our Web EDI solution, or Softshare Vista, our Windows-based desktop EDI solution. Both of these solutions are forms-based, making the exchange of EDI documents similar to that of e-mail.
Several of the more well-known grocery companies that Softshare software users exchange EDI documents with are listed next. The highlighted companies are those that we have created forms (i.e. trading partner kits) for, and you can click on them to learn more about their EDI programs.
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