Electronic Data Interchange, or simply Electronic Data Exchange, is the exchange of business documents through electronic means, such as invoices, purchase orders, and advanced ship notices in an industry standard format. The exchanging of documents from one’s computer to the other is considerably more efficient than the traditional mail service or fax.
The Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is one of the components of Internet Ready Trucking Software. Electronic data exchange software for trucking business management facilitates the process of electronic data exchange, between the client and the consumers, regarding the status of freight loads and billing. It helps to gather every shipment status change in one single standardized file format (the 214 shipment status reports) and to send it electronically to your client’s server. Electronic Data Exchange helps save on data entry and telephone communication costs and more, the invaluable time otherwise would have required for carrying out the entire process. The Internet based trucking EDI software also helps to predefine the status and reason codes which assist to describe the changes in shipment status.
The EDI module has been presented in a hassle free, easy to navigate windows for an easy operation. It has been integrated with other modules in the product and supports all standard EDI documents. The EDI Trucking Software’s interface is completely integrated with operations and accounting.
Thus the electronic data exchange for truckers is many times simple, speedy and efficient than the conventional data exchange methods through papers. In this world of advanced communication and technology, electronic data exchange yield the best of the results. The Internet based trucking EDI system takes the business a long way in terms of efficiency and speedy transfer of data thereby reducing the time delay.
