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Better EDI for Retail; Integrate Your Supply Chain Without Expensive VANs

The retail industry has been exchanging documents electronically for more than two decades. In fact, the industry was instrumental in the evolution of electronic data interchange (EDI). Initial standards were mapped out during the 1980's, with the formation of ANSI X12 and the VICS EDI Retail Users Group, and the weight of the major retail hubs over the last twenty-odd years helped drive adoption across the entire supply chain. Today, EDI is ubiquitous in retailing.

Millions of EDI transactions pass between retailers and their supply chain every day. These have traditionally traveled over Value Added Networks (VANs), dedicated to the EDI process, or via FTP. But much of this is now changing. VANs are expensive and do not always fit the modern business model, while FTP introduces unacceptable risk.

EDI on the World's Most Secure Document Exchange Platform

CyberFusion Integration Suite (CFI)™, from Proginet, is a complete solution for managing all aspects of EDI. CFI manages not only the typical processes, such as transformation and validation – it also handles authentication and management of all your trading partners, securing all transactions using a variety of protocols including AS2, HTTPs, FTPS (SSL), and SFTP (SSH).

CFI comprises the Commerce Server, Platform Server, and Internet Server modules – all integrated and controlled via a centralized, Web-based Command Center. The Commerce Server is a full featured EDI solution designed to allow retailers to seamlessly receive and send business documents to/from its trading partners, and update its internal systems automatically. Commerce Server provides data transformation, business process management, and audit capabilities, managing the retailer's business processes for: .

CFI's EDI capabilities help retailers efficiently manage their global trading partner communities, resulting in improved efficiencies, better customer relationships and an increase in revenue and profitability.

Better EDI Integration: From Your Trading Partners to Your Back End Systems

CFI Internet Server provides the connectivity between your CFI Commerce Server and your suppliers providing you with the flexibility of communicating with your suppliers via their desired mechanism, whether it's via VAN or over the Internet using any number of secure protocols. Platform Server does the cross-platform heavy lifting within your organization, providing the connectivity between the Commerce Server and your internal systems such as an ERP, CRM, or POS.

CFI's Command Center provides centralized administration of all aspects of your CFI EDI environment. This browser-based environment enables administrators to track and control all aspects of information movement and transformation, and allows you to easily identify problems with incoming or outgoing business documents and quickly resolve issues.