The EDI module has been designed as a set of tools that provide the user with a maximum amount of flexibility when dealing with their trading partners.  These tools can be used to map any Navision data element to an ANSI X12 standard.  Once the mapping is in place, the Transaction Management tools allow the user to easily manage the day-to-day process of conducting electronic commerce.

If EDI is based on a set of ANSI standards why is it so difficult to integrate into most business systems?

Business systems are as diverse and varied as their names and origins indicate.  The EDI ANSI X12 standard is an attempt to provide a common intermediate format in which to conduct electronic commerce between trading partners.  The interpretation and use of the data elements within these standards is left up to the EDI standards committee in each industry and further modified by the individual trading partners.  For example the electronics industry has a different set of requirements than does the retail distribution industry.  This is further complicated by the requirements of each trading partner’s business system.

Historically software providers have provided a hard coded custom solution to EDI which in turn is rigid and expensive to maintain and modify.  A more modern approach is to provide this same rigid interface and use an EDI software vendor’s logical mapping tool to complete the link.  The problem with this solution is that the EDI mapping tool can only map and pass along data that is provided to it through the traditional rigid interface.

Our approach to EDI is to provide a single mapping tool that maps any Navision data element to any EDI data element without the requirement for programming.

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