Every retailer sends POs differently, expects acknowledgements in their own format and charges you if anything is wrong. Supply Lens handles the translation, compliance and delivery for every trading partner, so your team stops doing it by hand.
It's not just a different file format. It's different codes, tolerances, mandatory fields, timing rules, with chargebacks for getting any of it wrong.
"Their product codes bear no relation to ours."
Every retailer uses their own product codes, depot identifiers, and supplier references. None match your internal system.
"We got a chargeback for a missing field on the invoice."
Mandatory fields, quantity tolerances, ASN timing: each retailer enforces their own rules with financial penalties.
"We need PO, ack, ASN, and invoice. All in different formats."
Four document types, each needing the right data, right format, right time, delivered via the right channel.
POs arrive via EDI, VAN, or file. Supply Lens validates codes, translates retailer references to your internal ones, creates a sales order in your ERP.
Sent back confirming PO receipt and acceptance, in their required format, with their required codes, automatically on order creation.
When dispatch is confirmed, Supply Lens builds the ASN in the retailer's required format, including carrier codes and packing details, then transmits it.
Invoices generated from your operational data, formatted to the retailer's exact specification, with tolerance rules applied, mandatory fields enforced.
The hard part of EDI isn't the format. It's that every retailer refers to your products, depots, and warehouses using codes that bear no relation to how you identify them internally.
Supply Lens maintains cross-reference tables for every trading partner, so retailer product codes map to your SKUs, their depot codes map to your locations, and supplier references map to your internal identifiers. All automatically, all per-partner.
Tell us which retailers you supply. We'll show you the exact document flows, translation rules and what going live looks like.