During these economic times, companies will be looking to reduce operating expenses in order to remain competitive in the market place. There are numerous ways a company can reduce expenses during the downturn of the economy, for purposes of this post something a simple as ongoing IT costs may be just the area to look at instead of reducing valuable people and other resources.

A company transacting via EDI may still be using some sort of solution that uses a VAN service (Value Added Network) that is geared towards charging per document or per click. Companies should not be paying really anything to move documents over the internet as the internet is free and now the most widely used piece of communication method for just about everything from email, advertising to personal finance.

If your company is currently paying an EDI service provider for sending Web forms or even through another Sage Software partner that more or less has some sort of level of integration. Chances are your paying far too much for a service that should be free as well as still doing some form of manual process. I have recently spoken to customers paying 3-4K per month in transaction charges using some sort of Van when really they shouldn’t be paying anything for that service or at least at a rate far less then that for just maintaining the set-up.

For anyone currently planning to evaluate a new solution to replace an existing one or are just being asked to get EDI enabled to trade with feel free to give me a call, I would be more then happy to assist you.

Thank you,

Wayne

Wayne Thompson
Account Manager – Sage Software Products
Direct: 905-635-3309
Tel: 905-631-8333 ext. 247
Fax: 416-946-1805

wthompson@ebridgesoft.com

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