Saturday, June 28, 2008

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) - It's our future

We have over 200 employees and many of them spend a lot of their time keying in information that has been keyed once, twice, even three times before we have keyed it.

This adds costs to the supply chain in a number of ways - time to key the information. Human error. Mistakes. Fines and penalties.

Many, many orders are keyed electronically these days and I am still amazed that at the end of the line - somehow that data 'gives birth' to a piece of paper - or many, many pieces of paper.

We encourage our customers to transmit data to us as much as possible to avoid extra time and expense. (If we do not have to key in the data, our fees go down because there is less work involved for us.)

For more information on how to speed up your shipments using EDI, please contact us.

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