EDI & B2B Integration Services

What are EDI and B2B integration services?

EDI and B2B integration services enable a business to exchange structured documents, such as purchase orders, invoices, and advance ship notices, electronically with its trading partners. The documents follow standards like ANSI X12 in North America and UN/EDIFACT internationally, and they move over secure protocols such as AS2, SFTP, or a value-added network. The work involves onboarding each partner to their specification, mapping documents to and from your ERP, and monitoring for compliance with functional acknowledgements and error handling. Agility delivers this end to end, from partner onboarding to production support.

Trading-partner integration that just works

EDI looks simple until you have your fiftieth trading partner, each with their own interpretation of the same standard. One retailer wants a specific qualifier in a segment, another rejects a document if an optional element is present, a third insists on a particular ASN hierarchy. Getting this right is about disciplined partner onboarding: reading each partner's specification carefully, building and validating the maps, running test cycles and certification where required, and only then moving to production. We treat onboarding as a repeatable process rather than a scramble, so adding partners becomes routine instead of risky.

We work across ANSI X12 and UN/EDIFACT and the common document types that drive supply chains: 850 purchase orders, 855 acknowledgements, 856 advance ship notices, 810 invoices, and inventory and remittance documents, with their EDIFACT equivalents such as ORDERS, DESADV, and INVOIC. Rather than mapping every partner directly to your ERP, we translate through a canonical internal model where it makes sense, so partner-specific quirks are isolated and your core mapping stays stable as partners come and go. Transport runs over AS2 with signed receipts, SFTP, FTPS, or a VAN, whatever each partner supports.

Compliance and visibility are built in. We generate and reconcile functional acknowledgements so you know a partner received and accepted a document, handle errors with clear alerting and reprocessing, and retain documents to meet audit and contractual requirements. Dashboards show partner and document status so operations can spot a stuck invoice before it becomes a chargeback. We can deliver EDI natively on iPaaS platforms such as Boomi, integrate a specialised EDI gateway, and support the estate in production.