EDI Discussion on all EDI things PDF, XML, EDI, JSON,AS2 etc.

Hello and Happy new year!

We are a small company that produces 10 SKUs food products. Recently we have contracted to use a 3rd party warehouse to do the drop ship of our SKUs to the grocery & convenience stores we sell to.

The problem is that all our software will produce is a PDF release order. Not EDI. Our system is not capable of generating any EDI because its a internal system and we can't change it (easily). The warehouse says they need an EDI X.12 release order in order to do this. They will not accept PDFs.

Is there a software out there that will convert my release order to the appropriate X.12 EDI and then send it to the warehouse? I'm told they want a EDI 940.

Do companies do this? or do they all suck up the huge cost to "go EDI"?

Many thanks in advance.

Prasad.

Hey there! Yeah, I found I could use ChimpKey for this. It'll take your PDF release order and convert it to the EDI 940 format the warehouse needs. No need for a big system change or huge costs. It does the conversion and can send it over to your warehouse. It's a common solution for situations like this.