Retail EDI

The inherent nature of today’s supply chain requires a rethinking of the supporting technical architecture 

In a whitepaper entitled ‘One-to-Many – Establishing a common platform to address multiple supply chain applications’  Trevor Miles writes about multi-enterprise supply chains.

Outsourcing has created new challenges. One of these is visibility and retaining accountability when companies do not have access to the right information. As Trevor states in his paper, much of the data required to make informed decisions is residing in Excel spreadsheets. 

Companies that do not outsource are also faced with distributed supply chains where inventory may be managed by a 3rd party or product is manufactured in different locations of the organization without the ability to synchronize demand and supply across multiple systems.

Todd Gould, an experienced EDI architect, has created a very simple and effective web services API for global EDI transit. ECGridOS offers global EDI for use by any developer, large or small. The Loren Data ECGrid connects to thousands of trading partners via a global mesh of commerce partner networks, and is now in production release.

This didn’t happen overnight. His company has been a trusted wholesale EDI messaging and routing broker for more than a decade. Don’t expect any less from Tood Gould, an expert on global EDI connectivity, and the President / CTO of Loren Data Corp.

ECGridOS is Todd’s grand architecture, his magnum opus; ECGridOS Web Services are here.