[Bill Blomker]

We have a customer that may require us to move to EDI.  I’m curious of what others have used in way of a fully integrated EDI or a 3rd party document management solution.  I’d like to hear your successes, failures and recommendations.

Thanks

We are on NAV 2016.

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Bill Blomker
IT Director
Crest Healthcare Supply
Dassel, Minnesota
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[AJ Ansari]

Hi Bill,

We have customers using (in alphabetical order) DiCentral and Lanham EDI for embedded EDI handling. There are also other well integrated solutions like (again, alphabetically) DataMasons, RedTail, SPSCommerce, etc.

There is another solution that some customers look to for low cost EDI handling, called TruCommerce (I might have misspelled it). I’m sure the product itself is good, but we’ve find the integration to NAV is very rudimentary and leaves a lot to be desired.

Good luck on your search!

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AJ Ansari
NAV Product Manager
InterDyn BMI
Houston TX
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[Anthony Darden]

Hi Bill!

We have used both an outsourced model (Paragon) and embedded (Lanham EDI).  We have grown to over 200 trading partners and have learned many lessons over the years using EDI.  I find that for low partner counts that do not require a high level of customization in their maps, the embedded solutions that AJ mentioned in this thread are good recommendations that should be explored.  If you intend to upgrade NAV on a regular basis (every 1-3 years), make sure you are working with a solution that stays on top of releases, as you do not want to reinvest in EDI at a later date (lesson learned for us). 

For high partner counts and complex mapping, I also recommend considering an outsourced solution as these will allow you to provide standard NAV data and keep the complexities outside of your ERP system and companies that specialize in EDI tend to have “seen it all” and bring you up to speed in a small amount of time.  That doesn’t mean embedded solutions aren’t a good fit, but I bled a lot of money on an hourly basis to get the customizations and testing we needed in place and in almost all cases, the time needed to complete the partner setup exceeded the estimates.  However, our outsourced solution came with a fixed rate per map setup fee, which was great and was something we could budget for.  Some mappings are quick and easy and self-maintained, but some (and in our case a lot) require a lot of time and effort.

These are just generalized comments based on my EDI experience and there are many nuances to consider.  I would be happy to discuss further with you if you would like.

Tony

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Anthony Darden
Director of IT
Protective Industries, Inc.
Buffalo NY
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[Susan Facile]

We are using SPS for EDI, but we are manually entering data into NAV.   Can anyone help me understand an easy solution for dropping SPS information into NAV?  SPS does not profess to know how to do this and my VAR for NAV does not really understand this either.  Surely there is a canned solution somewhere?

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Susan Facile
Texas Star Nut and Food
Boerne TX
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[Martin Micheelsen]

Beck’s Consulting has an integration piece for SPS to Nav.  In my experience it is an involved implementation.  Long run I believe it will be better for us than Lanham’s EDI.

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Martin Micheelsen
Nav Project Manager
LD Products
Long Beach CA.
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[Bob Monio]

As a reminder, you can also use the ICS capabilties in NAV to also accept various e-invoicing formats.  This was a new addition and it allows customers to accept e-network, PEPPOL, and other trading network invoice formats directly into NAV through the ICS service that Microsoft has OEM’ed into NAV/D365.  For more information, please contact “ICS_Sales@kofax.com”.

 -Bob

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Bob Monio
Director, Global Alliances
Kofax
Lakeville MN
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[Joe Shields]

Hi Bill,

You might also want to look at the Connectivity Studio from To-Increase.

I have used this in the past and found it extremely flexible. Since the connectivity studio works with XSLT transformations, you can define you Nav data once and then just create XSLT documents for the different partners. 

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Joe Shields
Advanced Media Technologies
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[Justin Falconer]

We use Lanham EDI and Eship.  Currently have about 100 trade partners.  The Lanham Solution works great.  We currently do all of our own mapping and setups.  We have found that doing this in house with the Lanham Solution works really well for us.  Lanham also has an outsourced option for EDI.

We also use Lanham Services (direct support via Lanham) when needed to help with errors and mapping issues.

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Justin Falconer
IT Manager
Tender Corporation
Littleton NH
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[Peter Dalfen]

Hi,
We offer a fully embedded solution as a managed service. 
Please drop me a line and we can do a quick demo for you. 

Thanks,

peter

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Peter Dalfen
Channel Manager | Microsoft Dynamics NAV
DiCentral
Houston TX
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[Angela Dunnahoe]

We use SPS Commerce and bcEDI.  SPS Commerce is the EDI provider, but the bcEDI (by Beck Consulting) allows us to have a fully integrated solution (We never have to enter data twice.  All data flows into and out of NAV).  Beck helped us with all of the NAV work, and SPS takes care of the mapping.  This allows our users to do testing with new trading partners without extensive IT knowledge.  Hope this helps!

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Angela Dunnahoe
Marucci Sports
Baton Rouge LA
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[Jim Augenstein]

Hello Bill – I can see you have a full gamut of possibilities here and of course, I’b be happy to show you our solution and discuss the pro’s and con’s. 

It’s pretty clear that some customer’s want a managed solution while others want more local control.  Lanham’s Advanced Commerce ERP allows you that range of choice. It is up to you how dependent or independent you choose to be. 

If you are interested in taking a look, let me know and I will set something up for you. 

Cheers,

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Jim Augenstein
Channel Manager
Lanham Associates
Aliso Viejo, CA
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