B2B / EDI Integration

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B2B / EDI Integration

What is B2B integration?

B2B (business-to-business) Integration is the exchange of data, information, products, or services between businesses.

What is EDI?

Connectivity is the crucial piece for any business to survive in the B2B market. This is achieved with the help of EDI in short for Electronic Data Interchange which facilitates an organization to exchange business information in electronic format with vendors, suppliers, partners, etc.

EDI is an automated machine-to-machine exchange of business data between trading partners through a secured communication channel. Some examples of EDIs are EDI850 for purchase orders, EDI810 for Invoices, EDI834 for Benefit enrolment and maintenance, etc.

EDIs are quite popular in industries like

  • Automotive & Manufacturing
  • Healthcare & Pharma
  • E-Commerce
  • Retail
  • Financial sector

Benefits:

Some of the core benefits organizations enjoy using Electronic Interchange formats are

  • Increased Efficiency with Automated tasks.
  • Strong Relationships with partners
  • Easy Tracking
  • Highly Secured

Boomi B2B solution:

As a market leader in B2B solutioning, Boomi helps organizations integrate its business data with ERP, CRM, and other SaaS applications seamlessly. It provides a cloud-based platform that helps define, build, deploy and manage EDI integrations & Trading partners. It provides a low code environment to easily onboard B2B integration solutions from legacy systems.

Boomi supports a wide variety of EDI formats like X12, EDIFACT, HL7, and RosettaNet along with industry range connectors like AS2, Disk, SFTP/FTP, etc for handling them.

*Boomi Trading partner configuration wizard allow us to configure our company standards, partner standards, communication method etc.

Trading Partner Options

Note: Boomi does support creating user-defined formats for EDI i.e., custom-built profiles for those document types that do not conform to any supported formats.

Licenses to B2B integration come with the Enterprise version. It also supports

  • Partner Management – Manages all partners components under one unified platform
  • Track Transactions – Simplified tracking of all processed transactions per partner is possible from the Process reporting tab. This is quite useful for end-to-end tracking and data tracing.

*Patner Management tab in boomi allow us to manage configured partners

Partner management

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