Automotive Industry
The automobile was invented in 1885. Since then, it's come a long way and so has the automotive industry's supply chain technology. In the early 1990s, the Automotive Network Exchange (ANX) was developed by the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) to develop a secure and standardized method for automakers and suppliers to exchange electronic documents.
Some of the common EDI transactions being exchanged within the automotive industry are listed next.
| ANSI X12 Standard |
UN/EDIFACT Standard |
| 810 invoice |
INVOIC invoice |
| 824 application advice |
BANSTA banking status |
| 830 planning schedule with release capability |
DELFOR delivery schedule |
| 850 purchase order |
ORDERS purchase order |
| 856 ship notice/manifest |
DESADV despatch advice |
| PRODEX product exchange reconciliation |
| 860 purchase order change request |
ORDCHG purchase order change request |
| 861 receiving advice/acceptance certificate |
RECADV receiving advice |
| 862 shipping schedule |
DELJIT just-in-time delivery |
| 866 production sequence |
Softshare is very familiar with these EDI transactions, and our various EDI solutions support all of them.
Our enterprise integration solution, which consists of Softshare Delta, our data translator, and Softshare ECS, our e-commerce communications server, provides for seamless integration of EDI into your overall business processes. Softshare's professional services group can assist with implementation or provide training if you want to develop your own data translation maps.
If your company is not ready for full-scale EDI integration, you can connect to your automotive partners using Softshare Athena, our Web EDI solution. Athena is forms-based, making the exchange of EDI documents similar to that of e-mail.
Several of the more well-known automotive companies that Softshare software users exchange EDI documents with are listed next. The highlighted companies are some of those that we have created forms (i.e. trading partner kits) for, and you can click on them to learn more about their EDI programs.
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