EDI Integration — Trading Partner EDI Connected to Your ERP
EDI integration is the practice of connecting Electronic Data Interchange — the document-exchange standard retailers and large suppliers still run on — to the systems your business actually uses, like your ERP, WMS and ecommerce platform. APIWORX delivers EDI integration as a fully managed service: trading partner onboarding, mapping, AS2/SFTP transmission, monitoring and chargeback prevention, all on the APIXX platform.
What EDI Integration Actually Means
EDI integration is more than translating an 850 into a sales order. It is the end-to-end loop that lets retailers like Walmart, Target and Home Depot transact with you electronically — and lets you respond with ASNs, invoices and inventory updates that meet their exact spec, every time, automatically.
- Inbound documents — 850 (PO), 860 (PO change), 855 (PO ack), 870 (status), 864 (text message) translated into ERP orders
- Outbound documents — 856 (ASN), 810 (invoice), 846 (inventory), 940/945 (warehouse shipping) generated from ERP or WMS data
- Transmission — AS2, SFTP, VAN, API — whatever each partner accepts, supported on one platform
- Mapping and translation — every retailer has its own dialect and labeling rules; APIWORX maintains the maps
- Compliance — GS1, UCC-128 SSCC labels, ISA/GS envelopes, chargeback rules built into every flow
- Monitoring and acks — 997 functional acknowledgements tracked, missing acks alerted before chargebacks hit
Why EDI Integration Projects Go Wrong
Most EDI integration headaches trace back to the same handful of causes: a homegrown setup nobody owns, a legacy VAN that bills per character, mappings that broke when the retailer shipped a spec change, and no monitoring until the chargeback arrives. APIWORX fixes the cause, not just the symptom.
- No middleware to run — APIWORX runs the platform; your team never opens a mapper
- Trading partner library — pre-built mappings for Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Lowe's, Costco, Amazon, Wayfair and 45+ more
- Spec changes absorbed — when a retailer updates an ASN format, APIWORX handles the migration
- Real chargeback prevention — proactive alerts on missing 997s, late ASNs and label compliance
- Flat-fee pricing — predictable subscription, not per-kilocharacter VAN fees
ERPs APIWORX Integrates with EDI
- NetSuite — full bidirectional EDI to NetSuite including subsidiaries and SuiteScript-aware customizations
- SAP — S/4HANA, Business One and Business ByDesign EDI integration
- Acumatica — full EDI flows for orders, ASNs and invoices
- Sage Intacct, Sage 100 — production EDI integration with Sage's API and import targets
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central — full Business Central EDI integration
- Brightpearl, Epicor, Infor and others — if it has an API, APIWORX can post EDI documents into it
Common EDI Integration Use Cases
- Retailer EDI to ERP — Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Lowe's, Costco translated into clean ERP sales orders
- Drop-ship EDI — Wayfair CastleGate, Amazon Vendor Central and other drop-ship programs
- Supplier EDI — your suppliers' POs, ASNs and invoices flowing into your ERP automatically
- 3PL EDI — 940/945 warehouse shipping documents between 3PL and ERP
- EDI to ecommerce — orders captured via EDI, posted to your DTC ERP and fulfilled through your existing ops
- API-to-EDI bridges — modern systems on your side, classic EDI on the partner side, no custom code in between