Building On What We Know
At Paragon, EDI has long been one of our core competencies and a focus of our consulting practice. Our consultants have helped numerous clients in a wide variety of industries leverage EDI to streamline their ‘order to cash’ cycle, better integrate their supply chain, reduce inventory levels and improve operating efficiency. Often when speaking to our clients and prospective clients, their challenges with respect to EDI were typically twofold:
Cost of Initial Investment in EDI and the Cost of Ongoing Maintenance of EDI Relationships
In response to these needs, Paragon launched our EDI Outsource service, operating from our EC Services division. This service has been priced to allow a small company needing to trade with one partner to enter into EDI without a large investment, while being robust enough to handle a large company trading with hundreds of partners with large volumes of data. In both cases, Paragon’s service is able to meet the customer’s need in an efficient and cost effective way.
Highlights of the Paragon EDI Outsource Service are:
- Low initial cost of setup
- Low cost of ongoing maintenance
- Many communication models supported (Direct FTP, AS2, Web Services, VAN)
- Paragon acts as liaison to the client’s trading partners to reduce the burden on the client
- Any to any translation model allows client to exchange data with partner in any fashion including EDI, XML, Flat File, etc
- Conversion of data to PC formats such as Excel and PDF delivered via email
- 24 hour system monitoring with escalated alerts to ensure critical data is sent and received on schedule
- Reduced Cost Integration Assistance – Paragon’s staff can assist in the integration of the EDI with your core business systems such as JD Edwards, BPCS, SAP, etc
Whether you are just looking to begin to tap the power of EDI and B2B data exchange or have an established trading environment, Paragon may be able to help you advance your business and improve your efficiency by utilizing our extensive experience and our business partnering approach. For more information on our EDI and EC services, please contact us at 412.653.2463 and we can discuss your business needs in more detail. |
