You've come to the right place! Softshare is very familiar with the EDI program of Ford, including the various documents they send to their trading partners—and expect back in return.
Ford sends the following EDI business document types to its trading partners:
Planning Schedules (830)
Shipping Schedules (862)
Functional Acknowledgments (997)
Ford receives the following EDI business document types from its trading partners:
Ship Notices - Standard Pack (856S)
Functional Acknowledgments (997)
Depending on your particular relationship, you may be asked to exchange all—or only some—of these document types with Ford. Whatever your EDI document needs turn out to be, Softshare has a solution for you.
Web EDI
If this is your first foray into EDI, check out Softshare Athena, our Web EDI solution. With this online solution, there's no software to install and no learning curve. We'll have you EDI capable with Ford in a matter of days, at an affordable price.
Fully Integrated EDI
If the need exists to integrate EDI data, Softshare Delta, our data translator, is available to you. Softshare Delta maps EDI into data formats that are compatible with your back-end systems (and vice-versa) for seamless integration of EDI into your overall business processes. To give you a head start on mapping, your installation of Delta can be primed with free models that represent, down to the last detail, the EDI transactions that Ford exchanges with its trading partners.
