EDI Standards

When you consider employing an EDI system to enhance your business-to-business (B2B) solution, you must take into consideration the EDI standard requirements that come with that decision. GXS handles that for you, ensuring that our EDI services and solutions abide by the industry EDI standards for document component requirements. As a partner with GXS, your EDI system documents will comply with the following EDI standard components:

• Must include EDI document data description
• Must allow for individual / independent structural modifications
• Must include specifications for data elements including time, date, intended address and format of EDI document
• Must divide documents into separate sections for title and delivery information, detailed document information, and data summary

GXS has worked with these EDI standard requirements for over 35 years and has adapted our solutions to meet these standards. With the business of 75 percent of the Fortune 500 companies, we are confident in our ability to serve you.

By creating solutions that produce EDI documents to meet the EDI standard requirements, GXS has become the global leader in B2B solutions. Our goal is to provide you with the EDI system you need to conduct business, free of worry and the added pressure of meeting important EDI standards. Our products have been created with these standards in mind. We have a complete list of EDI standard compliant electronic data interchange solutions to meet your business needs.

EDI Standard Data Formats

To ensure that your EDI system is consistent with industry EDI standard requirements, our solutions support various data formats. The formats that are compatible with our solutions include:

• ANSI X12
• UN/EDIFACT
• Odette
• EANCOM
• Tradacoms
• UN/TDI
• UCS

With GXS, you can choose the set of EDI standards that best suits the needs of your trading community. Additionally, our solutions allow you to send and receive data in multiple versions, vastly increasing your reach and communication capabilities by enabling you to communicate at an EDI standard designated by your own needs. Having these choices is important when implementing your EDI system because it can be customized to your unique needs. Learn how designating an EDI standard can help effectively increase the reach of your business.

EDI System: EDI Services and EDI Business Exchange

When your company decides it is time to move to a fully supported EDI system, GXS is here to help you make the change. With a wide array of B2B e-commerce solutions for your company to choose from, we proudly stand behind our products so you can concentrate on business relationships rather than the technology of your B2B or EDI system.

GXS Trading Grid®

The GXS Trading Grid® solution provides overall support for your B2B e-commerce endeavors. Including a variety of tools to improve different aspects of your business, the GXS Trading Grid solution can protect your company from EDI standards complexity, eliminate redundant manual tasks, and improve overall agility of your EDI system. Each of the Trading Grid tools requires very little initial set-up or maintenance time, as GXS is always there to support and manage their functions.

• Global Messaging
• Connectivity Options
• Messaging Services
• Hosted Translation Services
• B2B Gateways
• Partner Gateways
• Solutions for SAP, Oracle, and other ERP Systems
• Any-to-any Document Translation
• B2B Accelerators
• Rapid B2B Solutions for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
• Simple and Powerful EDI Integration
• Data Synchronization for Compliance
• Data Synchronization
• Product Information Management
• Data Synchronization
• Hosted Catalogue for Apparel and Footwear
• Visibility
• Order Visibility
• Logistics Visibility
• Inventory Visibility
• B2B Outsourcing
• EDI Outsourcing
• B2B Consolidation
• Global Community Enablement

EDI Standard: No Trading Partner Left Behind

When your company is given the choice of which EDI standard requirements it wants to conduct business under, the chance of enjoying full inclusion of all trading community members increases. GXS has set the goal of No Trading Partner Left Behind which applies to all businesses, large or small. Full community participation is very important to your success. By choosing your own EDI standards under which you conduct business, the chances of success greatly increase.

Our wide arrangement of B2B and EDI system choices are ideal for the company that has specific needs, for which a cookie-cutter B2B communication solution just won't do. Because we remove the complexity of EDI standard requirements, these solutions will only make your transition easier. For more information about our products, please contact us today.