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EDI

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(Commerce) electronic data interchange: an interactive electronic system that enables a supplier and a customer to communicate easily
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By integrating with B2BGateway's cloud based EDI solution the QuickBooks Online user can be compliant in all internationally recognized EDI standards and communication protocols such ANSI X12, EDIFACT, Tradacoms, PEPPOL, VAN, AS2, etc.
Larger suppliers can use EDI Value Added Networks, FTP or AS2 to exchange data in Tradacoms format, while smaller suppliers can use an on-line web portal option requiring no additional translation or communications software, enabling them to download orders and send delivery advice notes or invoices.
At about the same time, the UK Department of Customs and Excise, with the assistance of SITPRO (the British Simplification of Trade Procedures Board), was developing its own standards for documents used in international trade, called Tradacoms. These were later extended by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) into what became known as the GTDI (General-purpose Trade Data Interchange standards), and were gradually accepted by some 2,000 British exporting organizations.
It supports all of the major standards, including UN/ EDIFACT, TDCC, UCS/WINS TRADACOMS, and, most important for CSC Healthcare Group, proprietary formats.
The Tradacoms standards for the exchange of data between organizations became available in 1982 from the Article Number Association (ANA).
By integrating with B2BGateway's cloud-based EDI solution the NetSuite user can be compliant in all internationally recognized EDI standards and communication protocols such as EDIFACT, Eancom, Tradacoms, ANSI X12, oioUBL, PEPPOL, VAN, AS2, etc.