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What the retail cfo needs to know
1.
What the Retail
CFO Needs tO KNOW abOut edi What is EDI? How does it work? Isn’t it amazing that you can pick up a phone any time of Documents that are shared via EDI between trading day and call almost anywhere in the world? Regardless partners often follow a regimented process. First, the data of the type of phone, the carrier or the plan you have, you is “translated” from (to) the host system into a standardized can feel confident that your call will take place and the format that is accepted by the other trading partner. In technology will function properly. But what if you had to most cases the standardized format is one accepted by worry each time you placed a call that the technology the industry. Translation takes place one of several ways. wouldn’t work properly? What if you could only talk to One way is to make an investment in packaged translation people with a similar phone, on a similar network, with a software. This will require that you also invest in the similar phone plan? What if your landline phone couldn’t infrastructure to support the translation—both hardware communicate with a cell phone? What if a cell phone you and people. For many organizations, this investment is cost- purchased at AT&T couldn’t communicate with a phone prohibitive. An alternative to packaged software translation you purchased at Verizon or you needed a separate phone is through custom in-house programming. Some very large for each carrier? Could you imagine what would happen corporations may do this but most do not. Lastly, and the if only one carrier and hardware provider could participate growing trend for many trading partners especially in the in a conference call? Fortunately, the standards adopted small/medium retail segment, is to communicate data in an years ago by the phone industry help to provide a near- easy-to-extract format from or to the trading partner’s host seamless experience today regardless of the phone, plan system to a third-party translation service. In turn, the third- or provider you use. party translator will format the data into the standardized format. In most cases the cost of building the translation is Just like the standards within the phone industry that a one-time charge and can be capitalized. enable parties to communicate with each other, data may also be communicated between parties using a The second step in the process is the actual communication standard. Although there are a number of nomenclatures of your data to the trading partner. Data is communicated that describe data communication and integration to the trading partner via a “VAN” (value-added network). today—Business-to-Business (B2B), XML, FTP—the best In most cases, the VAN is a subscription-based service. acronym that’s stood the test of time for over 40 years is Similar to your phone carrier’s rate plan for minutes, the EDI (Electronic Data Interchange). VAN is often a metered service. Although the fees are usually nominal, you will pay for transmission service, © 2010 DiCentral Corporation. All Rights Reserved. All other products, company names or logos are trademarks and/or service marks of their respective owners. v 1 -10 / 10 119 9 N A S A P a r k w a y < H o u s t o n , Tex a s 7 7 0 5 8 < t e l : 2 8 1. 4 8 0 .1121 < f a x : 2 8 1. 218 . 4 8 10 < p a r t n e r s @ d i c e n t r a l . c o m < w w w. d i c e n t r a l . c o m
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business model. Of
critical importance, you will want to craft your Purchase Orders in such a way that reflects your supply chain model, often pushing as many services from you to your supplier as possible. If you want your vendor to drop-ship goods directly to your retail outlets, you will need to include those instructions in the PO. If your supply chain model supports a flow-though, cross- docked operation then you’ll want to communicate how you want goods packed and marked as they flow into your distribution network. If you run a pick/pack/ship operation, you may require different units of measure to support your replenishment model, such as inner and case pack quantities which will need to be communicated to your supplier. The ASN helps to automate the receipt of merchandise. The ASN is sent at the point of outbound distribution by the supplier. It details how and what was shipped. It may provide what cartons are inbound to your distribution center, what tracking numbers are provided by the carriers, and carton or container content. If you manage your inventory FIFO or have batch/lot control requirements you’ll likely need data within an ASN document. Knowing this information in advance helps you determine how you will handle and route the inventory upon receipt. meaning the more you transmit, the more you pay. The If your core focus is financial operations, automating charge is often per kilo-character (per KB) and as a general invoice processing can be beneficial for both gaining rule of thumb, you may have 2-3 kilo-characters per transactional efficiency and minimizing future head-count. transaction. You should check with your provider for the Many published job/cost analyses suggest that the cost to specific rates. The service acts like a postal carrier. Once manually process an invoice is $15. Obviously, this varies you’ve translated the documents you place the documents by the complexity of the invoice, how it’s processed in in your outbound mailbox. The VAN sweeps the mailboxes, the host system, and level of integration with the supplier. picking up your outbound mail and forwarding to the Many organizations target sub-$3 per transaction when an destination mailboxes. In turn, mail destined for you is appropriate degree of integration/processing is achieved, placed in your inbound mailbox. In many cases, firms use which is virtually impossible unless you have an efficient the same service provider for both translation and VAN in Procure-to-Pay cycle. order to achieve a more seamless process. Once the retailer has achieved an appropriate level of What documents to trade with suppliers partner integration with POs, ASNs, and Invoices, the and what’s important about this brass ring of financial control is within reach: Invoice exchange: Matching. Often, this is considered 3-way or even 4-way matching: a) ASN-to-Receiver, b) Receiver-to-PO, c) For a retailer, there are several core, critical documents to Receiver-to-Invoice, and d) Invoice-to-PO. The key A/R exchange with your suppliers, namely the Purchase Order, control function for most retailers is to pay the lesser of Advanced Shipment Notification or ASN, and the Invoice. receipt, ASN, or PO, depending on how the control is Depending on your business strategy, the Purchase Order set up. However there are other benefits by setting up may be one of the more strategic documents to trade. This invoice matching controls such as minimizing payments for document may be broken down into specific segments, overages or substitutions. some of which may be useful or not depending on your © 2010 DiCentral Corporation. All Rights Reserved. All other products, company names or logos are trademarks and/or service marks of their respective owners. v 1 -10 / 10 119 9 N A S A P a r k w a y < H o u s t o n , Tex a s 7 7 0 5 8 < t e l : 2 8 1. 4 8 0 .1121 < f a x : 2 8 1. 218 . 4 8 10 < p a r t n e r s @ d i c e n t r a l . c o m < w w w. d i c e n t r a l . c o m
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Once you’ve achieved
the basic document exchange, you suppliers during enablement. Make sure people may want to expand your electronic integration within your understand their specific responsibility and can supply chain (phase 2). Depending on your business needs, promptly respond when needed. you may find other electronic documents will drive further 4. Develop an enablement strategy. The majority of efficiencies. Electronic documents for returns and RMA’s effort to the retailer will be bringing the suppliers can help streamline your reverse logistics processes and on-board. You will need to develop a tiered lower your outstanding, aged A/R. Electronic work orders communication strategy to let your suppliers can help make project costing or tracking more efficient know what you as their customer are doing and when bill-of-materials, kitting, or light manufacturing is why. You will need to over-communicate the needed. If you have sales or inventory forecasts, you can benefits of the endeavor, both for you and for share the forecasts electronically with your supplier to the supplier. You should explain exactly what the help ensure you have inventory when you need it, paving process for enablement is and a tentative timeline the way for collaborative replenishment or even vendor- for execution. You should be aware that this will managed inventory. ACH documents may automate and likely evolve into a “carrot-and-stick” activity. Many streamline your payables processes. There are many other of your suppliers will complete their respective transactions that follow a standardized format that you may responsibilities quickly, but there will likely be take advantage of once you have the foundation set with some suppliers that will avoid the effort, citing POs, ASNs and Invoices. technical or budgetary constraints. At this point, Keys for a successful EDI initiative: if you haven’t already done so, you may need to introduce a chargeback penalty for lack of 1. Document your requirements. You should compliance with your supply chain requirements. incorporate your electronic transactional Often, this motivates the outliers. requirements in a common-facing environment that you already provide your supplier. This may 5. Test, test, test. Each supplier should be tested be your supplier portal, your online supplier to ensure their transactions, and yours, flow requirements document, the new supplier seamlessly into your respective host systems. The enablement form, etc. Make sure your electronic enablement process should have a comprehensive supply chain requirements are easily available to test script that gives you and your suppliers peace your suppliers. of mind that the integration will function properly, as designed. This doesn’t have to be a time- 2. Establish accountability. Although this type of consuming process, but it can be tedious. initiative becomes subsidized by IT, make sure this is adequately and properly supported by the rest of 6. Prepare for exceptions. Even with the effort behind the organization. Often, the buyer/merchandising testing, there may be reasons why transactions organization views this effort as mainly an IT or have to be manually edited. Often, these reasons accounting function and supports it passively stem from bad inbound data from the supplier – at best. It is critical that if the merchandising Garbage-In/Garbage-Out. Make sure your system organization owns the supplier relationship that it properly traps and escalates the exceptions on a understands and embraces the initiative. Enable timely basis. Sometimes, things just go wrong. controls such as your new vendor form to highlight Make sure you have the right monitoring controls and acquire the right commitment from all parties. in place to know when they go wrong and processes for remediation. 3. Assign responsibility. Depending on the strategy for execution, this may not be a tech-heavy 7. Have empathy. This may be a big change, both for initiative and may not need project leadership from your retail operation and for your suppliers. It may IT; it is likely this initiative won’t require a full-time take time for your suppliers to execute the change. resource. However, you will need resources to It may even take time for your organization to drive the initiative and provide assistance to the warm up to the idea. © 2010 DiCentral Corporation. All Rights Reserved. All other products, company names or logos are trademarks and/or service marks of their respective owners. v 1 -10 / 10 119 9 N A S A P a r k w a y < H o u s t o n , Tex a s 7 7 0 5 8 < t e l : 2 8 1. 4 8 0 .1121 < f a x : 2 8 1. 218 . 4 8 10 < p a r t n e r s @ d i c e n t r a l . c o m < w w w. d i c e n t r a l . c o m
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For most retailers,
whether you are strictly a brick-and- mortar chain or your have a multi-channel presence, the key to long-term growth and profitability is to have an efficient supply chain model. A key component of a strong supply chain model is the high level of integration you have with your suppliers. Whether your goals are simply to have a systems-based Procure-to-Pay cycle or to have collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment, you fill find it painfully difficult if not impossible to achieve without EDI. Remember, the best operators in retail are usually the ones that win. © 2010 DiCentral Corporation. All Rights Reserved. All other products, company names or logos are trademarks and/or service marks of their respective owners. v 1 -10 / 10 119 9 N A S A P a r k w a y < H o u s t o n , Tex a s 7 7 0 5 8 < t e l : 2 8 1. 4 8 0 .1121 < f a x : 2 8 1. 218 . 4 8 10 < p a r t n e r s @ d i c e n t r a l . c o m < w w w. d i c e n t r a l . c o m
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