Lanham EDI Extension Fact Sheet

Lanham EDI, designed specifically for Business Central and serving Dynamics NAV and Business Central customers for 20+ years, is the most experienced EDI solution for Business Central. It supports a wide range of the most complex EDI documents. (Please feel free to check with us regarding supported documents, as these documents change constantly with trading partner requirement updates.)

Lanham EDI fully supports the X12, XML, automotive, UCS, and EDIFACT standards, as well as delimited files. In fact, multiple standards are often supported within a single transmission to, or from, a Value Added Network (VAN).

In addition to these standards, many industries have added their own specific requirements to support their business transactions. Today Lanham EDI operates across all of these standards and provides the requested labels, whether they are GS1-128 (UCC-128), AIAG, or other custom package or item formatted labels.

Several industries have specific requirements for their unique needs that are also supported by Lanham EDI.

Retail Compliance – Total retail compliance, required by large retail companies, is accomplished by using Lanham EDI in conjunction with the Lanham E-Ship and E-Receive extension.

Automotive – Lanham EDI handles the receipt of a forecast, release against the forecast, and the processing of cumulative totals typically required by manufacturers delivering product to an automotive assembly line.

Fashion – The bulk draw-down process is supported for the fashion industry, allowing orders to be associated with blanket orders representing the total season commitment by a customer.

Food – Lanham EDI supports UCS standard documents.

Third-Party Logistics – Lanham EDI supports 3PL shipping and receiving documents, including Advanced Shipment Notices (ASNs).

Lanham EDI is unique in that it includes a logical mapping tool, built inside Business Central, to allow the seamless mapping of EDI transactions within the business system.

Perhaps the most important part of an EDI solution is the integration with your internal business processes. Yet many companies use a number of software packages, often not integrated, to try to accomplish this task.

Historically, EDI translations have been handled outside the business system, leaving the final linkage into the business system database to programmers, hard-coded programs, or even manual entry.

Lanham EDI takes a more efficient approach by incorporating the mapping and cross-reference process inside Business Central. This provides a single mapping process between the EDI documents and the business system database, a consistent user interface, native drill-down capabilities from either a Business Central document or an EDI document to view the related transaction detail, and a logical place for EDI archives.

The EDI Trace window shows all transactions that were created by and associated with incoming documents such as 850 purchase orders. The user can then drill down to view any document or associated EDI transaction bi-directionally.

Lanham EDI alerts enable the user to display preferred alerts when a specified alert-action occurs. Each EDI alert contains a text description of the alert action, and an EDI trace, or system drill down, allows the user to review the related transaction detail associated with each EDI alert.

Often the most difficult part of the EDI translation process is the cross-referencing of incoming data to the business system data. For example, a trading partner typically orders an inventory item using one of several numbers, none of which may be the number you use to identify that item in your system.

Because Lanham EDI is built inside Business Central, it handles the cross-referencing and mapping in a single step inside your business system.

Lanham EDI handles cross-referencing of:

• Items
• Units of Measure
• Status Codes
• Vendors
• Sell-To/Ship-To/Ship-For/Distribution Centers

Additionally, Lanham offers general cross-references for both inbound and outbound data such as:

• Shipping Agent
• Payment Terms
• Shipping Payment Type
• Tax Areas & Tax Jurisdiction Detail
• G/L Account Number
• Many More

Lanham EDI and Lanham’s E-Ship and E-Receive App, both built inside Business Central, take a unique approach of embedding all these functions inside a single system, providing a seamless flow for data, and simple, automatic generation of ASNs.

From the incoming EDI order to shipment, ASN, and invoice, the user has their familiar common user interface and access to all the details that make up the day-to-day and shipping operations.

• All modules and functions are embedded in a single supply chain system, providing a native and automatic flow of shipping data.
• Pack Line Scanning and standard pack automatically capture package-level detail for the ASN.
• Bill of Lading (BOL) for planning and executing shipments.
• Label Formatter for GS1-128 (UCC-128) and AIAG labels