Easily Integrated with Your Business Processes and Applications

Channel Integration LLC features prebuilt integrations with order management models across various retailers, grocers and distributors. Our comprehensive outsourced services support all document types (purchase orders, advance shipping notices, invoices and more), fulfillment models (such as ship to distribution center, vendor managed inventory, private label and others) and data transmission modes (including FTP, VAN and AS2). Channel Integration LLC supports a variety of file formats including EDI, XML and various flat files. In addition, adapters are available for leading accounting, ERP, warehouse management, and shipping and packing applications—each providing an out-of-the-box connection to Channel Integration LLC .net.

Channel Integration LLC is easy to integrate into your existing business process. The service can be accessed via an on-line WebForm or directly integrated into your business systems. Our application programming interface (API) allows data to flow in and out of supplier’s applications while hiding the complexity associated with the retailer’s maps, XML or other transaction sets. So, users simply focus on their own operational systems without having to become trading partner integration experts.

Channel Integration LLC has pioneered a Cloud based multi-tenant, SaaS approach to trading partner integration, in which suppliers leverage prebuilt maps, or integration code. By reusing these prebuilt maps, suppliers access highly-reliable code that has been battle-tested by thousands of customers and is constantly updated to address retailers’ changing requirements. This multi-tenant approach is a dramatic improvement over the single-tenant models of the past, in which hundreds or even thousands of CPG manufacturers created the same maps for the same retail customers, each one reinventing the wheel.

Our outsourced services deliver the functionality of traditional software applications, while providing greater reliability, faster implementation and lower cost of ownership. In addition, our SaaS architecture gives all trading partners, regardless of location, real-time access to key supply chain information via a standard Web browser, improving supply chain visibility and ensuring everyone is on the same page.

Implementing and maintaining dedicated resources for trading partner integration is extremely resource intensive and not a core competency for most businesses. Channel Integration LLC also provides the on-demand staffing resources to completely manage your trading partner integration efforts.

Today it’s the era of Internet EDI, and those who can’t afford to gain expertise in the field on EDI, prefer the SaaS model, and like to pay only as much as they use the EDI services from either an EDI outsourcing agency or an established EDI service provider. This essentially means that SaaS based EDI would be able to facilitate EDI mapping for even the small players of the game, helping them in incorporating their business with the EDI domain, and compete even with the big guns like Wal-Mart and the likes of them.

It’s not about being big anymore; it’s rather about being smart, and willing to change. Even the biggest giants in the world have gradually realized the power of EDI mapping with their business, and consequently decided to incorporate this technology into their business, and the results have been truly handsome.

EDI mapping helps in improving the business in lot many ways, and essentially the primary advantages include reduced cost and time for EDI readiness, substantial reduction in transaction fees, and improvised operational efficiency along with better level of system integration with the technology. What’s more EDI mapping also surely lowers down the requirements for IT infrastructure and this is surely some good news as EDI is indeed not one of the core functionalities of most of the organizations, but they still need the benefits of this technology, and EDI mapping is just what they are looking for, rather than the in-depth know-how of the technology, or its operation.

EDI mapping has been able to cut-short the expenses of many organizations by over 25% and even beyond that. Mostly those who require very little EDI services prefer EDI outsourcing agencies, which help them in integrating the technology with their existing business model, and consequently their system produces better results, thanks to the power of EDI.

EDI mapping has gained a valuable place in the EDI industry, and surely its importance will continue to grow for quite some time to come.