Led EDI initiatives at three different manufacturers. Specialized in EDIFACT, API migrations, and supply chain data integration.
Your EDI workflows have operated the same way for decades: structured documents move between systems according to rigid rules, mapping translates formats, and exceptions require manual intervention. In 2025, Agentic AI has entered the vocabulary of nearly every CIO around the world. Many companies are still in the exploratory stages
Your EDI budget planning started as a straightforward software purchase. Three months later, you're explaining to the CFO why implementation costs have tripled, trading partners are demanding compliance changes you didn't expect, and your IT team is drowning in mapping requirements that weren't in
Companies with revenues over $1 billion doing business in California must begin gathering emissions data in 2025 to meet the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act reporting requirements starting in 2026. Meanwhile, the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive requires large companies to report for their 2024 financial year, with
When your latest EDI transaction fails at 3 AM because of a missing segment validation, the cost isn't just a few hours of debugging. Manual EDI testing can take hours or even days for a single workflow, while your trading partners wait and operational costs mount. As EDI
Mobile EDI implementation represents a paradigm shift for supply chain teams operating in an increasingly connected world. Mobile EDI enables businesses to exchange data using mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, helping businesses increase efficiency, reduce errors, and improve collaboration with partners and suppliers. With mobile-enabled EDI dashboards and
Most supply chain professionals still rely on batch processing for their EDI systems, treating data exchange like the old mail truck that arrives twice a day. Traditional EDI systems often relied on batch processing, which could delay critical business decisions, yet many organizations continue using these outdated approaches in 2025.
Your EDI systems are storing decades of sensitive supply chain data in encrypted silos, using RSA and ECC algorithms that will become vulnerable within 5-15 years. Experts estimate that a cryptographically relevant quantum computer could break current encryption within a decade, with some projections suggesting quantum computers capable of breaking
Transportation companies face a tough decision. Thousands of businesses operating in the industry continue to rely on electronic data interchange (EDI) for all their integration needs. Meanwhile, APIs promise real-time data exchange and rapid implementation. Yet for freight brokers, shippers, and carriers to know how TMSs integrate with legacy systems
A manufacturer with 200 employees had been manually processing purchase orders from their largest retail partner for years. Every week, their team would spend 12 hours copying order details from email attachments into their ERP system, then manually create shipping confirmations and invoices. The process wasn't just slow—
Globally, as much as 90% of data extraction and data entry still occurs manually. In 2019, only 55 billion of the world's 550 billion invoices were exchanged on a paperless basis. For freight brokers handling hundreds of loads daily, this translates to crushing operational bottlenecks. Labor costs alone
When an advanced persistent threat group successfully penetrated Cisco's ASA devices through zero-day vulnerabilities in early September 2025, CISA issued Emergency Directive ED 25-03 requiring federal agencies to identify, analyze, and mitigate potential compromises immediately, after adding vulnerabilities CVE-2025-20333 and CVE-2025-20362 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The
The EDI professional shortage has reached crisis levels. 29% of businesses say that they lack the skilled resources to build and manage integrations between systems, applications, and partner ecosystems, while many of the professionals who initially implemented and managed EDI systems are now reaching retirement age, taking with them years