P1 EDI Has Been Live for Two Years

 It’s been two years since our first customer went live with our P1 EDI cloud software. Since then we’ve implemented the software for food and beverage, life sciences, chemicals and metals customers.

Along the way we’ve added a number of features that have allowed our customers to streamline their order to cash and purchase to pay business processes.

Some of these features provide transactions for non EDI customers through the EDI interface. Now non EDI transactions are automated and both types of transactions can be managed all in one place.

As a result, we have facilitated our customer’s growth without taking on extra resources or costs.

1.    P1 EDI has multiple ways to automate the creation of a sales order

• EDI 850 or 875
• Retail e-commerce website with direct delivery such as target.com
• Cloud based e-commerce website such as Shopify
• In house nopCommerce website
• Emailed purchase order from a non EDI customer
   

2.     P1 EDI has multiple ways you can automate the sending of an invoice

• EDI 810 or 880 automatically from Ross to an EDI Trading Partner
• Email an invoice automatically to a non EDI customer
   

3.    P1 EDI has multiple ways of communicating with customers

• Directly with your Trading Partners using AS2
• Indirectly through an EDI VAN using either FTP or Secure FTP
• A combination of the above depending on the capabilities of your Trading Partners
   

4.    Automated e-mail delivery of Customer and Vendor facing documents

• For example; sales invoices, pay statements, purchase orders, EFT remittance advice, 1099, custom reports
• This is applicable for any Crystal and SSRS report
   

5.    Automated Notifications

• Notifications for any EDI transaction success or failure
• Notifications for non EDI transactions available as well
• Flexible email templates & mail out lists
   

 6.    Shipping Advice

• 830 Material Release Schedule
• 855 Purchase Order Acknowledgement at either ship create or ship confirm
• 856 Advance Ship Notice, including life sciences serialization enhancement
• 862 Shipping Schedule, details actual shipping requirements
• 940 Warehouse Shipping Order, instruct remote warehouses to ship orders
• 945 Warehouse Shipping Advice, provides confirmation of a shipment
   

7.    Reconciliation Transactions

• Automated notifications for EDI 812, 824, 861 & 864 transactions
• Provides feedback on invoicing issues to your AR staff for quick response before it affects cash flow
   

8.    An extensive list of EDI transactions, all automated with Ross ERP

• Sales Orders, Purchase Orders – 832, 850, 860, 875, 876
• Sales Invoices, Purchase Invoices – 810, 880
• Shipping Advice – 830, 855, 856, 862, 940, 945
• Functional Acknowledgements – 997
• Reconciliation – 812, 824, 861, 864
• Contracts & Chargebacks – 844, 845, 849

ProcessOne Releases P1 EDI

After twenty years of assisting process manufacturers with their EDI transactions, eighteen months of software development and nine months in production at a food & beverage customer, ProcessOne is pleased to announce the general availability of P1 EDI.

P1 EDI offers a new way for ERP customers to manage their EDI transactions. No more managing flat files, paying for EDI translation services, hunting for and solving transaction errors, and resolving update errors in ERP. 

P1 EDI automatically generates EDI X12 transactions directly out of your ERP system, posts them to your EDI service provider or trading partners, and correspondingly updates ERP with incoming EDI transactions.  P1 EDI is a cloud-based application running on Microsoft Azure.

A Better Solution

P1 EDI eliminates the following business problems:

• EDI X12 translation issues
• Manual updating of flat file data tables
• Time-consuming error searches and correction
• Inability to monitor transaction flow

P1 EDI also provides the following new capabilities:

• Automated updates of ERP with incoming EDI transactions
• Creating or sending sales and purchasing transactions directly from ERP
• Support for contracts and chargeback transactions
• Automated exchange of any EDI transactions with trading partners and VAN’s 
• Monitoring of all EDI transactions sent to or received from trading partners
• Detailed audit trail of all transactions sent or received
• Capturing details of all errors and exceptions while notifying the right users via e-mail and alerts on the Dashboard.
• Better business response through tracking of individual transactions by trading partner, transaction set and date range to facilitate easy handling of errors and exceptions

Recommendations for Your Business

• Step 1: Take a closer look. Schedule a demonstration of P1 EDI with ProcessOne.  We explain how the major functions work and answer your technical questions.  
• Step 2: Estimate the Value. Based on past experience, ProcessOne believe we can reduce your EDI transaction costs by between 20% and 40%, all documented up front through a Business Review for EDI.
• Step 3: Plan the Project. If P1 EDI is the right decision for your business, then ProcessOne provides you a Deployment Plan Template which covers each step in the project.  Our team works with yours to fill in the tasks, trading-partner set-up and scheduling.  
• Step 4: Make it all work. Once everyone agrees to the Deployment Plan and schedule, the ProcessOne team takes over and makes it all work.  
• Step 5: Run the business .You now have better control of your EDI transactions, but you may need help and advice as you run your business. Assistance for users, training and support of any kind is only a ‘click’ away with the ProcessOne Help Desk.  People may post questions, reach out for technical assistance and build up a knowledge-base reference library through the documented responses provided by ProcessOne consultants.