AS2 is growing increasingly popular Now that a large number of trade companies have switched from the X.400 protocol to AS2 for understandable reasons (costs, FileWork problems, etc.), many of our customers are also beginning to favor the AS2 protocol. …

Caterpillar USA/ANSI X12 The EDI connection of Caterpillar USA poses some special challenges. The primary problem is that CAT USA does not comply with the ANSI X12 standards for ANSI X12 830 delivery schedules, but basically “concocts” its own 830 schedule.…

HOW “DESADV” IS TRANSFORMED INTO “ORDERS” One of the big challenges in many logistics projects is to replace a classic DESADV delivery order with an ORDERS, which will then generate delivery orders for the consignment stock (e.g., for ALDI Nord).However,…

CAUTION WITH VDA 4987! Users tend to underestimate the new 4987 VDA standard. Formatting (EDIFACT) is not the real challenge here, and nor are the better known semantic requirements. The actual problem is the map of picking structures.  The guidelines…

COMPLEX INTEGRATION OF LOGISTICAL PROCESSES For a few months, projects have been piling up that aim at far-reaching integration of logistical processes with shipping agents and fulfillment service providers. In many cases, this is down to shipping companies getting extremely…

CHANGES IN FRAMEWORK CONDITIONS FOR AS2 CONNECTIONS Changes in the framework conditions for AS2 connections occur on a regular basis and are normally initiated by the interchange partner. Because this is direct peer-to-peer communication, such connections are heavily encrypted using…

PAIRING: MERGING EDI FILES WITH EXTERNAL PDF SOURCES Generating readable EDI file content is a standard feature of all Softzoll EDI solutions. It is generally needed in order to allow non-IT colleagues from specialist departments to access the content of…

USING EDI INTELLIGENTLY WITH SOFTZOLL: AUTOCOMPLETE—ENRICHMENT OF INBOUND EDI MESSAGE DOCUMENT CONTENT Topic Many ERP systems require a defined minimum data quality to process inbound documents such as orders (ORDERS) or delivery notices (DESADV). However, not all customers deliver the…

USING EDI INTELLIGENTLY WITH SOFTZOLL: BASE64 & CODEPAGE CONVERSIONS Topic Besides strongly proprietary ASCII or TXT structures, many older ERP systems require particular coding for seamless processing. Users with older interfaces such as DATANORM not only have to handle complex…

BAHAG online store integration with OSTRPT: Part 1: Order process In addition to the classic order process that has been in use for a long time already, BAHAG AG is asking suppliers to process the orders from the BAHAG online…

USING EDI INTELLIGENTLY WITH SOFTZOLL: CONNECTING KIKA/LEINER (AT) BY PROPRIETARY HTTPS CLIENT Issue Connecting the Kika/Leiner EDI partner is in some particular application cases only possible through a proprietary application that is provided free of charge to Kika/Leiner suppliers. The…