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Retail B2B Data Integration

The retail industry faces many challenges related to the vast amount of information that must be processed, including data related to customer transactions, inventory management, sales forecasting, product shipments, and more.

Complicating matters is the fact that retail businesses often have data stored in various systems, such as point of sale (POS), inventory management, and customer relationship management (CRM) systems. These separate silos of data make it challenging to access and integrate that data, leading to incomplete or inaccurate insights into the retail process. The fact that data from different systems is often stored in different formats makes it even more difficult to combine and analyze.

Also, though the availability of real-time data is crucial for decision-making, many retail systems fail to update in real-time, leading to data latency and inaccuracies.

What’s more, retailers must ensure the security and privacy of customer data, which adds to the challenges of integrating data among various systems while maintaining compliance with data protection regulations. Those retailers might also use third-party systems, such as payment gateways, logistics providers, or social media platforms, which compound the difficulties of integrating data.

Whatever the challenges, integrating all that data efficiently and accurately is crucial to streamlining the various retail processes and ensuring early payment discounts can be achieved, supplier and payment data is up-to-date, and supply chain chargebacks are detected and supported in an accurate, timely manner.

Three Areas of Value from Adeptia

Adeptia’s retail data integration solutions provides significant value to retailers in three areas:

  1. Attaining early payment discounts with faster and more accurate data exchanges
  2. Speeding supplier and business partner data integration by up to 80 percent
  3. Facilitating supply chain chargebacks

Attaining Early Payment Discounts

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Sometimes, suppliers of merchandise will offer retailers a discount if they pay an invoice within 10 days instead of 30 days. The problem is, it’s not always so easy for retailers to pay within 10 days, especially if invoice processing is not 100 percent automated, as is the case when they’re receiving invoices in multiple formats (EDI and non-EDI) and manually mapping the data for processing within back-end systems.

How Adeptia Helps

Adeptia helps retailers meet early payment discounts through:

  • The ability to accept data from any source, in any format
  • The ability to automate the validation, transformation, and mapping of data into back-officed applications, databases, and systems
  • The ability to support and automate exception- and error-handling by seamlessly integrating human workflows

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Speeding Supplier and Partner Data Integration

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Retailers must digitally connect to complex array of systems managed by suppliers, distributors, logistics providers, business partners, value-added networks (VANs), and managed service providers (MSPs). The EDI format is a standard in retail, but many supplier applications and systems cannot “speak” EDI.

How Adeptia Helps

With click-and-drag ease, Adeptia Connect empowers business users with AI-powered data mapping as well as capabilities to integrate data and build business process workflows without IT support. Retailers can offer their suppliers a portal by which suppliers can choose their preferred file formats and map data directly into the retailers’ formats, without having to know anything about the retailers’ back-end systems.

Facilitating Supply Chain Chargebacks

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Retailers must have a way of assessing fines or chargebacks to supply chain partners who don’t meet their commitments. Shipments that arrive late or not at all, invalid Advanced Shipping notices, damaged shipments, or shipments that go to the wrong location all cost retailers real dollars. Instead of absorbing those costs, retailers can bill their suppliers for the time it took to correct the problem. But that can be difficult or impossible — especially if data from multiple sources has to be correlated.

How Adeptia Helps

Adeptia’s solutions can correlate data from every source (internal or external), map it, and standardize it so retailers can use the data to compare, analyze, and track supply chain errors and generate reports faster. Using Adeptia’s retail data integration solutions, retailers can apply greater discipline and accuracy to supply chain chargebacks and share the cost burden with their suppliers and distributors.

Retail Industry EDIs

The retail industry relies on a variety of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) forms to exchange business documents electronically with suppliers, vendors, and other trading partners. Adeptia offers coverage for all EDI transaction sets, including:

    • Purchase Order-EDI 850: Used by retailers to request goods or services from their suppliers, including product details, quantities, and delivery dates.
    • Invoice-EDI 810: Used by suppliers to send invoices to retailers for goods or services provided, including pricing information, quantities, and payment terms.
    • Advanced Shipping Notice-EDI 856: Used by suppliers to provide retailers with shipment details, such as the contents of the shipment, carrier information, and delivery dates.
    • Functional Acknowledgement-EDI 997: Used to confirm the receipt of an EDI document and to acknowledge that it was received without errors.
    • Remittance Advice-EDI 820: Used by retailers to provide payment details to their suppliers, including invoice numbers, amounts paid, and payment dates.
    • Product Activity Data-EDI 852: Used by retailers to request or provide sales and inventory data for specific products, including stock levels, sales volumes, and replenishment needs.

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