EDI Studio for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain Management simplifies communications and collaboration among companies through electronic data interchange (EDI). EDI Studio supports the Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain Management data model and promotes low-overhead administration with standard configurations, tracking, and control capabilities.
To optimize common business activities, EDI Studio can assist you to:
Many companies use EDI Studio to make information exchanges with customers and suppliers more efficient, more dependable, and easier to administrate. The solution helps them control the costs and minimize the risk in common processes and communications. The many possible usage scenarios for EDI Studio include:
Benefits
EDI Studio benefits are:
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A common definition of EDI is that it is a computer-to-computer exchange of business documents in a standard electronic format between business partners.
EDI Studio extends Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations with EDI functionality. The solution integrates in several Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations modules, for example: Accounts receivable, Accounts payable, and Warehouse management. EDI Studio uses Connectivity Studio for the mapping and transport of the standard electronic formats.
On a high level, the EDI Studio features are, using the EDI definition from the previous section:
EDI Studio offers staging journals to validate inbound sales orders, purchase order confirmations, inventory orders, and transfer orders.
Several types of third-party logistics (3PL) providers exist, like broker, freight forwarder, warehouse 3PLs, and enterprise 3PLs. EDI studio supports EDI message exchange with the warehouse 3PL type of providers.
Your company can use a 3PL warehouse to:
Your company can use EDI messages to exchange data with its 3PL warehouses.
This section explains the warehouse 3PL EDI messages that are supported by EDI studio.
In EDI studio, your company is at the center. So, in EDI studio, you set up and use the 3PL EDI messages that your company sends to or receives from a 3PL warehouse.
3PL - Seller messages
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3PL - Buyer messages
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3PL - Inventory messages
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In this section, you can find more detailed information on how to:
Use EDI tutorial |
Process EDI messages
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Monitor EDI
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Set up EDI
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Clean up EDI journals and EDI history |