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EDI is not hard!!!! Period! Like some file formats, it’s unnecessarily complicated. The biggest problem in this industry is that there’s a monopoly and many com
by iask 5y ago
EDI is not hard!!!! Period! Like some file formats, it’s unnecessarily complicated. The biggest problem in this industry is that there’s a monopoly and many companies are being FORCED to use these arcane and costly service providers.
I build and integrate EDI solutions for small/mid and retail juggernauts.
- neolithic 5y agoWe're a small business looking into EDI with some of our suppliers, but are finding the pricing quite painful for our level of business when talking to some service providers. Which service providers do you see as arcane and costly?
- iask 5y agoSPS, Truecommerce etc. If you need advise or guidance drop me a message.
- tester756 5y agoWhat makes you think that it is unnecessarily complicated?
- iask 5y agoHave you done programming in other languages or worked with other formats other than excel and CSV? The x12 argument was fine 5-10 years ago. Certainly not now. There are much better structures available.
- djweis 5y agoIt's not hard, it's complex. I spent a few years going through 834 and later at a different company, 811. For the first I embedded a javascript interpreter to do translations. For the second I put most of the logic in the code.