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The mistakes that get your GS1-128 labels rejected by retailers
Why a distribution center rejects a pallet: a malformed or duplicated SSCC, wrong Application Identifiers (AI), an unreadable or …
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How to avoid SICM penalties when integrating Farmapatria waybills
A practical guide for pharmaceutical distributors, wholesalers and labs in Venezuela: where the manual process of loading waybills …
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EDI for 3PLs: grow without the phone growing with you
How EDI transforms a 3PL's operation: the warehouse transactions explained simply — 940 warehouse shipping order, 945 shipping …
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The ROI of EDI: what NOT being connected to your customers and suppliers costs you every month
The cost of not having EDI never shows up on an invoice: it hides in manual re-keying, credit notes, trucks waiting at the dock, …
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The three warehouse labels: GTIN-13, GTIN-14 and SSCC-18 explained simply
The GS1 identification hierarchy without the jargon: the unit's GTIN-13 (the checkout barcode), the corrugated case's GTIN-14, and …
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FideX (AS5): the future of certified EDI transmissions
What FideX (AS5) is, explained simply: the proposed next generation of digital registered mail — from AS2 and AS4 to REST + JSON — …
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GS1 XML: when the language of business learned web
What GS1 XML is, explained simply: the EDI standard from the GS1 family (the barcode and SSCC people) written in readable, …
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TRADACOMS: the grandfather of retail EDI (and the lesson that standards never die)
What TRADACOMS is, explained simply: the first mass-market retail EDI, born in the UK in 1982, frozen since the 1990s and still …
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UN/EDIFACT: the EDI language of the world (and of every container leaving port)
What UN/EDIFACT is, explained simply: the United Nations EDI standard, its ORDERS, DESADV and INVOIC messages, where it rules …
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ANSI X12: the telegram that never died (the EDI language of the Americas)
What ANSI X12 is, explained simply: the EDI syntax that dominates commerce across the Americas, how to read its segments and …
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Standard packing: pallet math (and why retail won't take your boxes 'however they come')
Standard packing and the Ti-Hi explained simply: cases per layer, layers per pallet, case pack vs selling unit, the pack factor in …
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GS1 SSCC-18: the pallet's ID card that gets you unloaded in minutes
The GS1 SSCC-18 explained simply: the 18 digits that identify each pallet or parcel, the GS1-128 logistics label where it lives, …
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AS2, AS4 and ebXML: the digital registered mail your EDI documents travel on
AS2, AS4 and ebXML explained without jargon: how purchase orders and invoices travel between companies, why global retail demands …
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The electronic catalog: the document that kills the stale-price order
The electronic product and price catalog (832 in X12, PRICAT in EDIFACT) explained without jargon: how a supplier publishes its …
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The advance ship notice: the truck that tells you what it's carrying before it arrives
The advance ship notice or ASN (856 in X12, DESADV in EDIFACT) explained without jargon: the truck's contents arrive digitally …
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The delivery schedule: how to stop guessing how much your customer will buy
The delivery schedule (830 in X12, DELFOR in EDIFACT) explained without jargon: how a buyer shares its production plan with a …
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