Good Afternoon,

As always, we strive to keep our clients and readers up to date on the latest changes and updates in the integration industry. As such, we would like to pass on this notice that will affect businesses trading with Hannaford and/or Food Lion. The notice we received read as follows:

Food Lion LLC and Hannaford Brothers Co. are consolidating supply chain systems which will require changes in the EDI Purchase Order (850/875), Invoice (810/880), Product Activity (852), and Purchase Order Replenishment (855) documents.  These changes will become effective on 9/1/2010.

At this time we do not have specification details of these changes ready to distribute; however, you will be notified once final decisions are made. We anticipate the changes to be minor and simple to implement.

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Good Afternoon,

Winter seems to be attempting a come-back, as we saw hail over the lunch hour! However, our trusty team of developers weathered the storm and churned out another quality list of updates. Below are the new and updated integration connections that were deployed to the ePortal during the week of April 5th, 2010:

• Ozark Automotive 4010
• Thrifty Foods 4010 VICS

• Advanced Auto Parts 4010
• Bass Pro Shops 4010 VICS
• Dillards 4030 VICS
• GE Catalog 4010
• General Maps
• GHX 4010
• Hannford 5010
• Home Depot Canada 4060
• Mac Tools 4010
• Micro Center 4010
• MSCIndustrialSupply 4010
• PepBoys 4030
• School Outfitters 4010
• Tech Data 4010
• Walmart 5010
• White Rose Foods 4010 UCS

That’s all we have got for you this week. As always, be sure to contact us if you have any questions or need a connection we haven’t deployed yet!

See you next week.

Kevin Martin
Assistant Marketing Professional

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Good Afternoon,

We’re making this post a day earlier than usual, because no one will be here tomorrow thanks to Good Friday. Given the short week, we have also have a shorter than usual list to share. Below are the new and updated integration connections that were deployed to the ePortal during the week of March 29th:

• GE Catalog 4010

• Amazon Books 4010
• Bostwick 4010
• CVS 4010
• Find MRO 4010
• ASPDotNetStorefront Connector
• Home Depot Canada 4060
• Metro Richeleau 4010 VICS
• Bloomingdales 4030 VICS
• Miva Merchant
• MSC Industrial Supply 4010
• Pubnet US 3060

That wraps it up for this week. As always, be sure to contact us if you have any questions or need a connection we haven’t deployed yet!

Have a safe and happy long weekend (if you get one)!

Kevin Martin
Assistant Marketing Professional

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When doing business with larger organizations you are almost always required to implement an EDI solution.  There are a host of factors that make it necessary to do EDI (electronic data interchange) with larger companies.  These factors included both strategic and operational reasons and have been around for decades.  Here are just a couple of examples of the strategic and operation benefits companies take advantage of:

Strategic:

•  Decreased operating costs;
•  Improved cash and inventory cycles;
•  Rapidly integrate trading partners into business processes.

Operational:

•  Invoices are sent out and in your partners hands in minutes;
•  Increased security in delivery of message and transaction processing;
•  Reduce double entry of data, eliminate data errors;
•  Reduction in inventory levels;
•  Reduced paper, postage and sorting activities. 

By taking advantage of the strategic and operational benefits of implementing an EDI solution, customers and suppliers have been required to do business via EDI.  In almost all situations larger companies will not enter into a business relationship without the other party conforming to the EDI standards set by the larger company.  Depending on the number of transactions per month, the customer can choose to implement an EDI system which automatically handles incoming documents i.e: 850s (Purchase Orders) and 997s (Functional Acknowledgement) or they can choose to enter information manually via a web form. 

At eBridge Software our solutions have functionality built-in to handle automatic and manual entry (rip and read) of data.  To read more about our software solutions and how your company may benefit Click here. 

Regards,

Dave Malda

Marketing Coordinator

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