Today, Logistics service providers are trying to find new ways to serve customer delivery needs and reach out for new markets, deliver quality customer service, meet high customer demand on time, while avoiding delivery bottlenecks, and cutting on repetitive operating costs. In this climate, a fast, effective service is a strong competitive differentiator.
Even though EDI Integration & Translation software
available hold untapped promise, yet, budget constraints are making businesses more cautious about investing in the new technology that enables advancement to occur. eLife Coupler ® levels the competitive grounds and allows you to compete with other big competitors providing you with the ability to implement IT best practices even if you are on a limited budget.
eLife Coupler ® is a user
friendly, cost effective, quickly deployable software that can easily be deployed to small and mid-sized partners and customers to help them comply with new customer demands, & respond to competitive pressures. Coupler
® can translate EDI X12 850, 855, 856 etc documents to XML. The software is very user
friendly, it doesn't require a line of code! It lets you communicate with partners via ebXML, AS1, AS2 messaging protocols and send your documents via: FTP, HTTP get/post, LAN, POP3/SMTP securely.
Their challenge is to drive down the constant increase in cost, driving revenue, improving quality of service, maintaining stronger relationships with suppliers and customers & gaining new customers while being able to stay on track with high production capacities.
eLife Coupler ® offers a flexible, scalable solution that can be easily deployed to small and mid-sized partners and customers so that they can participate in business processes using leading B2B protocols including: ebXML | AS1 | AS2 securely.
Coupler helps you in running a successful retail operation by keeping you connected to in-store operations and the supply chain.
eLife Coupler ® is a user friendly, cost effective, quickly deployable software that can easily be deployed to small and mid-sized partners and customers to help them comply with new customer demands, & respond to competitive pressures. Coupler
® can translate EDI X12 850, 855, 856 etc documents to XML. The software is very user friendly, it doesn't require a line of code! It lets you communicate with partners via ebXML, AS1, AS2 messaging protocols and send your documents via: FTP, HTTP get/post, LAN, POP3/SMTP securely.
Coupler allows the exchange of these documents between you
and your partner:
Advanced Ship
Notice (856)
The Advanced Ship Notice transaction is exchanged
between the organization responsible for detailing and
communicating the contents of a shipment, or shipments,
to one or more receivers of the transaction. The
receiver of this transaction set can be any organization
having an interest in the contents of a shipment or
information about the contents of a shipment. The
transaction set can be used to list the contents of a
shipment of goods as well as additional information
relating to the shipment, such as order information,
product description, physical characteristics, type of
packaging, marking, carrier information and
configuration of goods within the transportation
equipment. The transaction set enables the sender to
describe the contents and configuration of a shipment in
various levels of detail.
Invoices (810, 880)
The Invoice transaction
is sent by the Supplier/Manufacturer Foods to the
customer relative to the billing for goods shipped to
the customer. The Invoice Process flow illustrates the
exchange of documents between the customer and the
Supplier/Manufacturer.
Messages (824, 864)
The Message
transactions are sent to the Supplier/Manufacturer Foods
for the purpose of messages, explanations, and other
one-time communications. The 824 is used to provide the
ability to report the results of an application system’s
data content edits of transaction sets (ex: EDI invoice
rejected by partner’s application system, as
opposed to acceptance/rejection of EDI standard
compliance via the FA). It was designed to
accommodate the business need of reporting the
acceptance, rejection or acceptance with change of any
transaction set. The intent of the 864 is to provide
electronic communication for people, not for computer
processing, in some human-readable form.
Payments (820)
The Payment
Order/Remittance Advice transaction can be used to make
a payment, send a remittance advice, or make a payment
and send a remittance advice. The Payment/Remittance
Advice Flow illustrates the exchange of documents
between our customers, their financial institutions, and
the Supplier/Manufacturer’s bank.
Purchase Orders (850,
860, 875, 876)
The Purchase Order
transactions (850 and 875) are used by our customers to
communicate the placement of orders for the
Supplier/Manufacturer products. The Purchase Order
Change transactions (860 and 876) are used by our
customers to communicate the request for a change to a
previously submitted purchase order. Changes are
accomplished by restating the value of the data elements
to be changed rather than indicating the difference
between the old and new value.
Vendor Managed
Inventory (852, 855)
Two transaction sets
are used for Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI). The Product
Activity Data transaction (852) is used by our trading
partners to advise the Supplier/Manufacturer of
inventory, sales and other product activity information.
This product activity data enables the
Supplier/Manufacturer to plan and ship or propose
inventory replenishment quantities for our trading
partners via the Purchase Order Acknowledgment
transaction (855), which serves as notification of a
vendor generated order.
Automate and speed up your order lifecycle, and perform B2B
with many partners in record time with Coupler.
Coupler will allow suppliers to do the following:
The Supplier/Manufacturer will
receive an 875 from the broker and transmit a 997 in
return.
The Supplier/Manufacturer will
transmit an 855 to the broker and expect a 997 in
return.
The Supplier/Manufacturer will
transmit an 880 to the broker and expect a 997 in
return.
855 (Purchase Order
Acknowledgment) – This
transaction set is used to notify the broker of a
submitted order to the Supplier/Manufacturer by one
of its customers. The 855 will contain only the
items that the broker is responsible for and total
quantity and amounts will be for the entire order.
880 (Invoice)–
This transaction set is used to communicate to the
broker the items the customer is being invoiced for.
The 880 will contain only the items that the broker
is responsible for and total quantity and amounts
will be for the entire order.
875 (Grocery Products Purchase
Order) – The broker when
submitting orders to the Supplier/Manufacturer will
transmit an 875.
