Trading partner EDI certification & compliance / EDI certification and compliance for manufacturers

EDI certification and compliance for manufacturers

SPICE™ EDI compliance lets manufacturers and brands certify suppliers and EDI customers against their own maps and business rules through self-service testing, so every trading partner is ready before go-live.

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Compliance runs in both directions

As a manufacturer, you set the rules on one side and follow someone else’s on the other. Your suppliers must send acknowledgments, ASNs and invoices that meet your requirements. Your EDI customers must send orders your ERP can process. And the retailers and distributors you sell to hold you to their own vendor compliance requirements for orders, ASNs, labels and invoices.

Often each of these is managed separately. Supplier testing happens by email in the procurement team, customer testing happens in the EDI team, and retail requirements are handled by whoever owns that account. Nobody sees the whole picture until a rejected document or a chargeback arrives.

What gets in the way

Supplier certification is slow Every new supplier, sourcing change or acquired business adds a round of specs, test files and email.
Customer onboarding waits on testing A distributor or retailer that wants to send orders by EDI can’t go live until its documents are tested against your maps.
Retail requirements keep changing Each customer has its own rules for ASNs, labels and invoices, and missing them costs you on every shipment.
Problems surface after the fact Errors show up as rejected documents, deductions and manual corrections instead of during testing.

Certify both sides on one platform

EDI certification and compliance on the SPICE™ Supply Chain Collaboration Platform covers your buying and selling sides with one approach.

Your suppliers

SPICE iKompli™ lets EDI suppliers test their acknowledgments, ASNs and invoices against your maps and business rules on their own. They see exactly which rule failed, correct and retest, and you approve each one for production. Suppliers not on EDI use SPICE Web OMS™, where your validations apply before anything is submitted.

Your EDI customers

The same SPICE iKompli™ workspace certifies dealers, distributors and retailers that send you orders by EDI, so their orders reach your ERP clean from the first production transaction.

Your customers’ requirements

SPICE Connect™ connects and supports your customer order messaging, and where your ERP or warehouse system can’t meet a customer’s label or document requirements, SPICE™ adds the fulfillment workflow to close the gap. SPICE Insight™ shows exceptions and scorecards by customer and by supplier, so you see compliance problems before they become deductions.

One standard for every trading partner

Whether the pressure today is a sourcing change that brings a wave of new suppliers or a large customer that wants to order by EDI, certification works the same way. It’s the standard front door for procure to pay for manufacturers and order to cash for manufacturers. When you add a brand, region or acquired business, its trading partners certify against the same rules. See how SPICE™ supports manufacturers and brands.

What changes

Clean data

Suppliers and EDI customers prove their documents meet your rules before go-live.

Perfect order

Your outbound ASNs, labels and invoices meet each customer’s requirements more consistently.

More control

One standard and one view of certification across suppliers and customers, alongside your existing EDI platform or VAN.

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The SPICE™ platform

Where trading partner certification runs on SPICE™

The highlighted parts run this process. Every other part runs on the same platform. Select any part to explore it.

Your ERPWMS · TMS · OMS stay the system of record

SuppliersProcure-to-pay SPICE Web OMS™Supplier collaboration without EDI

SPICE™Supply Chain Collaboration Platform

SPICE DDS™Documents in, transactions out SPICE Catalog™Product data in, validated SPICE iKompli™Trading partner certification

SPICE Insight™Visibility across every transaction SPICE Connect™The managed team around it

Customers, dealers & retailersOrder-to-cash SPICE Trade™B2B ordering for non-EDI customers

Carriers & 3PLsLogistics

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What does EDI compliance mean for a manufacturer?

It works both ways. Your suppliers and EDI customers must meet your requirements, and you must meet the requirements of the retailers and distributors you sell to. SPICE™ certifies trading partners against your rules before go-live and helps you meet customer requirements in production, with one view of compliance across both.

Can we certify EDI customers as well as suppliers?

Yes. SPICE iKompli™ supports both. Suppliers test acknowledgments, ASNs and invoices against your rules, and EDI customers test the orders they will send you. In both cases you define the requirements and approve go-live.

How does SPICE™ help us meet our retail customers' requirements?

SPICE Connect™ runs and supports your customer order messaging, and SPICE™ adds fulfillment workflow where your ERP or warehouse system can't meet a customer's label or document requirements. SPICE Insight™ shows exceptions by customer, so you can fix problems before they turn into deductions.

What happens when we acquire a business with its own suppliers?

Its suppliers and customers certify against the same requirements in SPICE iKompli™, and SPICE Connect™ can run the onboarding, so you extend one standard instead of starting a new testing program.

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Hold suppliers and customers to one EDI standard

Certify suppliers and EDI customers against your own maps and business rules before go-live, with your team approving each one.

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