Data Integration for Transformational Manufacturing Excellence

Today’s manufacturing industry faces a number of IT challenges that significantly impact business operations and profitability. Nearly all of these have data integration as foundational to success:

• Data silos: Manufacturing processes generate tons of data, but that data is often siloed within separate applications, databases, systems, and departments. That makes it difficult to get a holistic view of operations within the context of the entire supply-chain. And it’s also challenging to rely on siloed data to make confident, data-driven business decisions.
• Legacy systems: Many manufacturers rely on legacy systems that introduce special challenges when integrating with newer technologies elsewhere in the enterprise.
• Cybersecurity: Today’s manufacturers are more connected both within their firewalls and outside them, along multi-enterprise value chains. As a result, they’re more vulnerable to cyber threats and data security risks. Protecting intellectual property, customer data, and production systems from cyber attacks is a major priority.
• Supply-chain partner integration: Manufacturing processes increasingly require B2B integration with both suppliers and customers to streamline operations and enable efficiencies. Vagaries of data formats, access methods, workflows, and business rules make integration across company boundaries complex and labor-intensive.
• IT talent shortage: Sourcing and retaining skilled IT team members is challenging, especially in the manufacturing sector where competition from other industries is fierce. The same goes for IT data integration experts.

Adeptia helps manufacturers address complex data integration challenges with flexible, scalable, AI-powered, self-service solutions that provide transformational business results.

Adeptia facilitates seamless connectivity between your business and your OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, and other suppliers, as well as your network of customers. It enables you to easily integrate business processes and data along your entire supply chain, regardless of your existing technology.

By enabling collaboration, integration, and process improvement, Adeptia helps manufacturers gain a competitive edge needed to be more agile. Adeptia improves your speed to market, product quality, and employee health and safety, all while reducing the environmental impact and overall costs.

Accurate data is vital to any manufacturer, and its ability to effectively onboard, validate, and integrate inbound and outbound EDI messages is key to sustaining successful business relationships with clients.

Adeptia offers coverage for all EDI transaction sets, including:

• Invoice-EDI 810: Used by suppliers to send invoices to retailers for goods or services provided, including pricing information, quantities, and payment terms.
• Credit/Debit Memo-EDI 812: Used by buyers to reflect adjustments made as a part of a particular payment.
• Remittance Advice-EDI 820: Used by retailers to provide payment details to their suppliers, including invoice numbers, amounts paid, and payment dates.
• Planning Schedule-EDI 830: Used to communicate long-term production, material, and delivery schedules from buyers to suppliers.
• Inventory Inquiry/Advice-EDI 846: Used to provide inventory information, such as stock levels and availability, from suppliers to buyers.
• Product Activity Data-EDI 852: Used to provide sales and inventory activity information, such as item quantities sold and on-hand stock.
• Purchase Order-EDI 850: Used by retailers to request goods or services from their suppliers, including product details, quantities, and delivery dates.
• Purchase Order Acknowledgement-EDI 855: Used by seller to confirm the receipt of a purchase order from a buyer.
• Advanced Shipping Notice-EDI 856: Provides detailed information about a shipment, including packing information, carrier information, and shipment contents.
• Purchase Order Change-EDI 860: Sent from buyer to seller when buyer needs to make changes to Purchase Order-EDI 850.
• Purchase Order Change Acknowledgement-EDI 865: Sent from seller to buyer to acknowledge changes buyers have made.
• Warehouse Shipping Order-EDI 940: Used to request the shipment of goods from a warehouse to a specific location.
• Warehouse Shipping Advice-EDI 945: Used to confirm the shipment of goods from a warehouse to a specific location.
• Functional Acknowledgement-EDI 997: Used to confirm the receipt of an EDI document and to acknowledge that it was received without errors.