329: Future-Proof Your EDI Infrastructure, with Orderful
Erik from Orderful brings his firsthand experience as a former software consultant to the challenge of modernizing EDI. He founded Orderful to solve the two biggest problems he saw clients face: slow, manual partner onboarding and complex ongoing production management. Erik advocates for transforming legacy EDI into a modern, API-driven, self-service experience that empowers business users and drastically reduces implementation times. He shares that Orderful is now focused on expanding its platform to support European EDI standards (EDIFACT) to better serve global businesses.
Today I’m joined by Orderful, a collaborative and forward-thinking software brand that are building the future of EDI. With a pre-connected network, they’re aiming to move the needle from months to trade down to minutes.
Orderful is a complete cloud EDI platform for manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and technology companies. With an API that enables companies to connect once and trade EDI data with their supply chain, Orderful customers are able to consolidate their EDI software integration complexity and quickly enable trading partners as self-service to reduce costs.
Today Erik Kiser, CEO and founder of Orderful, joins me to chat all about the company; the challenges involved with traditional EDI solutions; bringing supply chains together; achieving visibility and addressing risk; and the future of EDI.
A reminder of who Orderful are, and how they help their customers.
An overview of EDI, its place in the industry alongside API, and why it’s ‘the plumbing of today’s supply chain.’
The importance of good data in onboarding, and how Orderful helps to solve some of supply chain’s typical data challenges.
What visibility means to Orderful, why it’s so important, and how visibility services like notifications can help companies solve challenges in real time.
How Orderful empowers customers to confidently manage risk, and creates a smoother experience for teams across businesses.
The ideal client for Orderful.
A case study showing how Orderful helped a major client to reduce its onboarding time and proccesses for new carriers from 90 steps and 12 weeks down to 30 steps in nine days, and how Orderful sits apart from its competition
The future for Orderful.
Resources & Links Mentioned
- Head over to Orderful’s website now to find out more and discover how they could help you too. You can also connect with Orderful and keep up to date with the latest over on LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube or Twitter, or you can connect with Erik on LinkedIn.
- If enjoyed this episode and want to hear more from Orderful, check out episode 281, where Erik talks all about why it’s so important to help the small guys get to market; why existing EDI software infrastructures can’t keep up; and Orderful’s mission to create a world where data trading is not a barrier. Or, you can read their blog A New Cloud EDI Platform: 5 Ways to Simplify EDI, or even watch Erik on a special live episode of Thoughts and Coffee, where Erik and Sarah dive into more issues around EDI and trending industry news.
- This episode was filmed at Manifest 2023. If you enjoyed it, and want to explore some of the other great content filmed at the event, why not check out episodes:
- 327: Turn Your Shipping Process Into a Competitive Advantage, with Enveyo
- 325: Build Thriving Supply Chain Communities, with Envase Technologies
- 322: Innovative Asset Tracking Made Easy, with Blackberry Radar
- Check out our other podcasts HERE.
