Supply Lens automates the Alliance Healthcare supplier document cycle. Purchase orders in, invoices out, transmitted directly and mapped to your ERP or IMS with the right depot codes, supplier IDs and Alliance Healthcare tolerance rules built in.
Alliance Healthcare's flow looks straightforward on paper. The work is in the supplier and location codes, the tolerance rules on every invoice and the format Alliance Healthcare expects each message to follow. Get any of it wrong and you eat a deduction. Supply Lens is configured for those rules out of the box.
Alliance Healthcare receives EDI through a direct point-to-point AS2 connection. Supply Lens manages the certificates, the partner profile and the gateway on your behalf, so you don't need your own AS2 setup, B2B gateway or trading partner agreement to maintain.
Alliance Healthcare uses Tradacoms, the legacy UK retail format still standard across most established UK retailers. Supply Lens generates and parses Tradacoms structures correctly so the format is invisible from your ERP's point of view, the order just arrives.
Alliance Healthcare identifies products by GS1 EAN and an internal article reference. Supply Lens maintains a cross-reference table mapping both to your own item codes, so the PO lands correctly in your ERP regardless of which identifier Alliance Healthcare sends.
Alliance Healthcare applies strict invoice matching on price and quantity. Supply Lens validates the invoice against the originating PO and your agreed cost list before transmission, flagging any discrepancy for review rather than sending it and risking a deduction later.
Each Alliance Healthcare PO names a destination DC by code. Supply Lens maps every active Alliance Healthcare location to the correct routing in your warehouse system, so the order lands against the right depot in your ERP without manual intervention.
Your agreed Alliance Healthcare cost list is registered in Supply Lens. Promotional pricing, cost changes and tier breaks are all applied automatically when an invoice is generated, so the price Alliance Healthcare sees on the INVFIL always matches what was agreed.
Supply Lens handles the full Alliance Healthcare document set inbound and outbound, so nothing is ever manually produced, rekeyed or sent late.
Supply Lens holds Alliance Healthcare's rules and the AS2 connection so you don't have to. Your team provides credentials, product mappings and the agreed cost list. Everything else lives in the Supply Lens layer.
Your Alliance Healthcare supplier code, GLN and trading partner profile registered with Alliance Healthcare's gateway. Supply Lens manages the AS2 station IDs and certificates, no setup needed your side.
Alliance Healthcare EANs and article references mapped to your item codes. Pack-size variants, promotional lines and multi-pack SKUs handled cleanly without manual maintenance.
Each Alliance Healthcare DC code mapped to your correct warehouse, customer account or entity in your ERP, so orders route cleanly to the right despatch point on receipt.
Your agreed Alliance Healthcare cost list registered for invoice validation. Tolerance rules applied per supplier agreement, so price discrepancies surface your side first.
Supply Lens handles the scenarios that typically cause invoice rejections, deductions or document mismatches in the Alliance Healthcare flow.
Format never reaches your system. Supply Lens parses Alliance Healthcare's Tradacoms ORDHDR into a clean order payload your ERP already understands and renders your outbound invoice as INVFIL on the way back out. Your team works in their normal interface, the format conversion happens in the Supply Lens layer.
Invoice values are validated against the originating PO and your agreed Alliance Healthcare cost list before submission. Discrepancies are flagged before the INVFIL is sent, giving your team a chance to correct or query rather than receive a Alliance Healthcare deduction weeks later.
Promotional pricing is held against your Alliance Healthcare cost list and applied per line at invoice time. New promotional EANs map to existing items where possible, and any unmapped reference goes to an exception queue immediately rather than rejecting the order outright.
Unrecognised EANs go to an exception queue immediately. The PO is held, your team is notified with the full Alliance Healthcare context, the mapping is added and the order is re-triggered. No silent drop, no late invoice, no missed delivery window.
Alliance Healthcare EDI onboarding involves their supplier team, the AS2 partner setup and your internal product and pricing data. Supply Lens manages the configuration, the gateway and the format conversion. You provide the inputs.
Alliance Healthcare supplier code, GLNs, ERP credentials and cost list received
EAN cross-reference, DC routing and pricing configuration completed in staging
Test ORDHDR processed, INVFIL generated and validated against Alliance Healthcare's Tradacoms specification
Production enabled, first live Alliance Healthcare PO processed end-to-end
Supply Lens routes Alliance Healthcare POs directly into Unleashed, Enterpryze or other connected ERPs with the right item codes, document series and DC routing.
Most suppliers are live within five days. No long contracts, no AS2 setup on your side. We handle the Alliance Healthcare-specific configuration, you confirm the mappings.