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

EDI certification and compliance for distributors

SPICE™ EDI certification for distributors lets wholesale and specialty distributors certify manufacturers and EDI customers against their own maps and business rules through self-service testing, before any of them go live.

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You enforce compliance and live with it

A distributor sits on both sides of every compliance conversation. Upstream, you need manufacturers and suppliers to send acknowledgments, ASNs and invoices your branches and accounts payable can use. Downstream, larger contractors, businesses and retailers want to send you orders by EDI, and some of them hold you to their own vendor compliance requirements when you ship.

Each side usually has its own testing process, its own spreadsheets and its own email threads. With hundreds of manufacturers and a growing number of EDI customers, certification becomes a queue nobody can see the end of.

What gets in the way

Supplier testing never finishes New product lines, supplier tiers and regions keep adding manufacturers to certify.
EDI customers wait to go live A customer that wants to order electronically has to test against your maps first, and that testing competes with supplier work for the same EDI team.
Customer requirements land on operations Retail and large business customers expect ASNs, labels and invoices in their format, and branches feel the deductions when something is missed.
Two sides, no single view Nobody can see which suppliers and customers are certified, in testing or stuck.

One certification program for both sides

EDI certification and compliance on the SPICE™ Supply Chain Collaboration Platform gives distributors one approach upstream and downstream.

Manufacturers and suppliers

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

EDI customers

The same workspace certifies the contractors, businesses and retailers that send you orders by EDI, so their orders reach your ERP clean from the start.

Your customers’ requirements

SPICE Connect™ runs and supports customer order messaging and adds fulfillment workflow where your ERP or warehouse system can’t meet a customer’s label or document requirements. SPICE Insight™ scores suppliers and customers alike and shows exceptions by trading partner, by branch or by document type.

Your EDI team sees every trading partner’s certification status, on both sides, in one place. It runs alongside your existing EDI platform or VAN.

One set of requirements, both sides

Supplier and customer certification run in the same workspace, with the same requirements and support, and you can certify either side in any order. Certified manufacturers join procure to pay for distributors, and certified EDI customers join order to cash for distributors. See how SPICE™ supports distributors.

What changes

Clean data

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

Perfect order

Supplier ASNs and invoices match the PO, and your shipments meet customer requirements more consistently.

More control

One certification standard and one view of status across both sides, without adding EDI staff for each new wave.

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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 certification involve for a distributor?

Your manufacturers and EDI customers test their documents against your maps and business rules before they go live. With SPICE iKompli™ they do it on their own, get instant results and retest until they pass, and you approve each one for production. It covers both sides in the same workspace.

Can the same team and tools certify suppliers and customers?

Yes. SPICE iKompli™ supports both sides of the transaction, so your EDI team uses one set of requirements, one testing workspace and one status view instead of separate processes for purchasing and sales.

Some of our customers have their own vendor compliance rules. How does SPICE help?

SPICE Connect™ runs and supports your customer order messaging and 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 address them before they become deductions.

Do we need to replace our EDI platform?

No. SPICE iKompli™ works alongside your existing EDI platform or VAN. Certified suppliers and customers move into whichever production environment you already run.

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Certify manufacturers and EDI customers in one program

We’ll walk through how SPICE iKompli™ lets your suppliers and EDI customers test against your rules on their own, so your EDI team clears the queue on both sides.

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