Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Order-Entry Vs. EDI


Have you ever worked in a order-entry department? I did for a short time and it wasn’t much fun. I wonder if anyone really still does that anymore. I guess there must still be old fashioned phone order catalogs. At B2BGateway, we can eliminate the need for order-entry and make your business flow. Typically our customers are small companies who sell to retailers and they have no choice about EDI. In order to sell toilet paper to Walmart, you have to be EDI compatible, so they go into it unwillingly. I think many of them may find advantages to the automation after they realize how it works, particularly when they don’t have to hand key in anything! Of course, we are the gurus where Retail EDI is concerned, but we can also help the Dot com guys. There are many webstores out there selling through the dot com companies, and they need help! Imagine if you sold TVs. Imagine, Joe Schmoe logs in to Buy.com and orders 10 flatscreens for his new 10 room Villa. That order is automatically sent to through B2BGateway system, imported into your system, you click a button, it triggers the order to your warehouse, the warehouse presses another button triggering the ship notice to B2BGateway, and immediately on to Buy.com and Joe. Joe gets his TVs, Buy.com sends an electronic payment to your bank, life is sweet!

Tracy

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