EDI sends a purchase order from your customer's system straight to yours in a standard format, EDIFACT or X12, after each trading partner is set up with its own map. With a portal or an API, the customer types the order in or their own system sends it. Everyone else sends an email, a PDF or a spreadsheet in their own layout: Lleverage reads those, finds the customer and the articles in your ERP, checks them against your rules and creates the sales order. EDI keeps its own path, and all three end as the same sales order, here in Business Central.
Solution: AI order management
How it works
EDI and APIs both bring structured orders into your ERP. Orders that arrive as an email or a PDF still need reading. This is how AI order entry fits beside them, with Lleverage.
With EDI, your customer's system sends a purchase order straight to yours, in a standard format such as EDIFACT or X12. Each trading partner agrees the format first and needs its own map, so setting up each one takes time and money. With a portal or an API, the customer types the order in, or their own system sends it.
Everyone else sends an email, a PDF or a spreadsheet, each in their own layout. Lleverage reads those orders, finds the customer and the articles in your ERP, checks them against your rules, and creates the sales order. EDI keeps its own path.
All three end as the same sales order in your ERP, here Business Central. Keep EDI for large customers who order often, and let AI order entry take the emails and PDFs from everyone else. Next for you: order processing with AI, from the order email to the sales order.
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