Industry Knowledge

Industry Knowledge is our best feature. We are a team of passionate EDI professionals who have held positions in leadership EDI roles, including 1000+ store-chain retailers, Fortune 500 suppliers of the industry’s largest retailers, manufacturers, and healthcare organizations. Our engineers have a pre-packaged Docstudio Web-EDI System with the requirements of over 400 of your customers or trading partners. This gives us the ability to make you EDI-capable in minutes.

<span class="text-color-blue">Support for many industries standard organizations and transaction types – Versatile Industry List</span>

• <span class="text-color-blue">Suppliers of Retailers</span> – Retail is our strongest knowledge area. Our customers supply over 400 of the world’s largest retailers. Docstudio founders were EDI Leaders at national retail chains and have also worked with hundreds of suppliers in the retail industry. Our solution comes pre-packaged with established connectivity and compliance requirements. These are just some of the sample transactions we provide for retail EDI 850 Purchase Order, 855 Purchase Order Acknowledgement, 860 Change Order, 856 Advanced Ship Notices, 810 Invoice, and 852 Product Activity Reports. Our retail suppliers range from Pet products to apparel, electronics, and dozens of other categories.

• <span class="text-color-blue">Suppliers of Retailers Grocery</span> – The Grocery industry was one of the pioneers of standardizing EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) for the retail industry. Here are some of the transactions that Docstudio supports for the Grocery industry: 875 Grocery Products Purchase Orders, 876 Grocery Products Purchase Order Changes, and 880 Grocery Products Invoice.
• <span class="text-color-blue">Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) and Drop-Ship Processing</span> – VMI and Drop-Shipping are more and more common these days. Frequently, these business processes require the use of 3PL – Third Party Logistics Providers. Here are some of the EDI Transactions that we support for 3PL, VMI, and Drop Ship Processing: 870 Order Status Report, 846 Inventory Inquiry/Advice, 940 Warehouse Shipping Order, 943 Warehouse Stock Transfer Shipment Advice, 944 Warehouse Stock Transfer Receipt Advice, 945 Warehouse Shipping Advice.
• <span class="text-color-blue">Automotive Industry</span> – Docstudio provides an excellent EDI solution for automotive parts suppliers to manufacturers like Ford and GM. We have ready-to-go Web-Based EDI transactions setup for your 830 Planning Schedules, 856 Advanced Ship Notices, 861 Receiving Advice, 862 Just-In-Time (JIT) shipping schedule.
• <span class="text-color-blue">Transportation</span> – Docstudio has a versatile list of Transportation-industry customers. The 110 Air Freight Details and Invoice (aka Small Package Invoice) can be used by any organization that ships via FedEx, UPS, or DHL. This is the most popular transportation-related EDI transaction. Here are some more EDI transactions for the transportation industry:

Motor Freight EDI Transactions - Our motor-freight carriers, including LTL (Less-Than-Trailer load) use our web-based EDI solution to exchange transactions such as 204 Motor Carrier Load Tender, 204 Motor Carrier Load Tender,210 Motor Carrier Freight Details and Invoice,211 Motor Carrier Bill of Lading,212 Motor Carrier Delivery Trailer Manifest, 213 Motor Carrier Shipment Status Inquiry, 214 Transportation Carrier Ship Status Message, 240 Motor Carrier Package Status.

Rail Freight EDI Transactions – What’s unique about Rail-Freight EDI transactions is that all the railroads (e.g. Union-Pacific, CSX, BNSF Railway, Canadian National, Northwestern, etc.) use the same EDI industry spec. These are some of the EDI transactions that Docstudio supports: 404 Rail Carrier Shipment Information, 410 Rail Carrier Freight Details and Invoice, 414 Rail Car hire Settlements, 417 Rail Carrier Waybill Interchange, 425 Rail Waybill Request.

Ocean Freight EDI Transactions – Docstudio has several network terminals and ocean freight carriers as customers. These are some of the transactions that we provide to our Ocean Freight customers: 315 Status Details (Ocean), 322 Ocean Terminal Operations, 323 Vessel Schedule, and Itinerary.

• <span class="text-color-blue">Banking/Financial</span> – Docstudio has provided reduced error rates and improved productivity for its customers in any industry by utilizing banking EDI transactions to reconcile incoming payments. We have found creative ways for accounts receivable departments to match incoming payments to outstanding invoices. Here are some of the banking EDI transactions that we provide today: 810 Invoices, 811 Consolidated Service Invoices/Statements, 812 Credit/Debit Adjustments, 820 Payment Orders/Remittance Advice
821 Financial Information Reporting, 823 Lockbox,  827 Financial Return Notice.
• <span class="text-color-blue">Dozens of other industries</span> – While our focus is mainly on supply, in addition to the industries listed above, Docstudio has clients in various other industries, including but not limited to Healthcare HIPAA EDI, Government,
  

<span class="text-color-blue">Versatile Standard Committee Support
EDI Industry Standard Organizations</span>

• <span class="text-color-blue">ANSI X12</span> – There are over 300 transactions in this North American standard, and Docstudio’ s Web-Based Cloud EDI solution supports most of these transactions
• <span class="text-color-blue">UN/EDIFACT</span> - There are over 120 UN/EDIFACT Standards transactions, and Docstudio’ s Web-Based Cloud EDI solution supports most of these transactions. Our customers doing business in Europe, Asia, and South America are using this standard
• <span class="text-color-blue">Tradacoms</span> - There are 26 transactions (known as files) in this U.K. standard, and some of our customers in Great Britain are using these transactions.

Voluntary Industry Standard Support

• <span class="text-color-blue">VICS</span> – VICS (Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions Association) is the most popular voluntary committee for supply-chain EDI. Most of Docstudio’s customers are in the VICS category.
• <span class="text-color-blue">UCS</span> - UCS, the Uniform Communication Standard, is used by the grocery industry for various standards, including EDI transactions such as the 880 Grocery Product Invoice.
• <span class="text-color-blue">WEDI</span> – Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange is a key player in healthcare-related HIPAA EDI.