EDI Supplier Portals – Eliminate paper with your small suppliers in an efficient, cost effective way!

Question: Roger, although we are EDI enabled, a lot of our small suppliers still send us their invoices in paper format. This creates a huge strain on our accounts department, especially as some of the lines we carry are seasonal and create spikes in our working year. We have talked to these suppliers about becoming EDI compliant, but have found a lot of resistance due to their low volume, lack of IT knowledge and apprehension of costs. Do you know of any products that could help us automate our supply chain with these small suppliers in a cost effective manner? 

Answer: Hi Phil, I understand the pressure and strain that manual data entry must put on your resources and accounts receivable department, not alone with seasonal spikes, but all year round. 

Having heard this problem many times before, our organization B2BGateway has developed a web based EDI Supplier Portal that will help your organization eliminate paper and automate your supply chain with your small and/or seasonal suppliers. The B2BGateway EDI Supplier Portal will allow your organization to: 

• Eliminate paper and allow all suppliers (no matter what size or volume) to send and receive orders and invoices electronically.
• Export Purchase Orders (EDI 850 documents) to your suppliers and import Invoices (EDI 810 documents) from your suppliers through our web based EDI Supplier Portal direct to your Accounting/ERP software solution. Full seamless cloud based integration to your back end accounts.
• Reduce costs, errors and labor associated with manual data entry.
• Add or delete suppliers as the need arises.
• Add Advanced Shipping Notices (EDI 856 documents) & GS1/UCC-128 Barcode Labels should your organization require them.
• Be compliant with all global EDI standards including ANSI X12, UN/EDIFACT, EANCOM, Tradacoms, Odette, XML etc. 

What are the benefits for your suppliers? 

• As the solution is web based they will not need to invest in additional hardware or software systems – all they will require is a computer and an internet connection.
• B2BGateway web based EDI solutions are very cost effective for suppliers – often working out much cheaper than the combined total costs of print, stationery and postage.
• There is an on screen record of all transactions.
• It helps speed up the suppliers ‘Order to Payment’ cash cycle. 

For further information on B2BGateway’s web based EDI Supplier Portal please visit www.B2BGateway.Net or email Sales@B2BGateway.Net 

Roger Leyden is Director of European Sales & Marketing at B2BGateway