Document Exchange (EDI)

Intense global competition is forcing businesses around the world to improve productivity and increase customer satisfaction.  To accomplish these objectives, companies are changing the way that they conduct business and placing enormous emphasis on speed.  These changes are taking place not only within companies but also externally. 

Businesses have discovered that productivity and customer satisfaction are heavily impacted by the performance of their value chain.  A company's value chain consists of its customers, suppliers, banks, and transportation companies, to name a few.  Integration of these value chain participants via the electronic movement of business documents is the essence of electronic commerce.

Whether you're being required to implement EDI by your larger customers and suppliers or whether it's just one piece of a comprehensive e-commerce strategy, your EDI must be flexible enough to change within a dynamic environment. Capable of meeting existing standards and permitting unique internal designs, Sentai's EDI solution takes the work out of your electronic transactions. Features include

  • Non-proprietary interfaces
  • Supports any EDI standards (X12, EDIFACT, proprietary industry standards)
  • Receive and send mission-critical documents
  • One-to-one, many-to-one, one-to-many relationships between translation dictionaries and flat files
  • Maintained through table driven screens
  • Logical menu structure

Some of the document sets currently supported include:

  • 810 (Invoice) Inbound
  • 810 (Invoice) Outbound
  • 820 Payment Order
  • 850 (Purchase Order) Inbound
  • 850 (Purchase Order) Outbound
  • 855 (PO Acknowledgement) Inbound
  • 855 (PO Acknowledgement) Outbound
  • 856 Advance Ship Notice (ASN) Inbound
  • 856 Advance Ship Notice (ASN) Outbound
  • 867 (Dealer Sell Through) Outbound
  • and others

Sentai and Digital Movers also offer a fully hosted service in which our customers only need to pay a one time set up fee and a per character transmission service fee. EVERY update to the forms or documents from implementation date forward is provided at no additional cost. This service allows Sentai customers a new level of freedom. 

For more information on Sentai Digital Movers hosted EDI offering, click here.