The retail supply chain has hit a critical juncture where suppliers face a landscape that can "feel impossible to keep up" with. 2026 continues to be considered the throne of the omnichannel trend, making omnichannel fulfillment increasingly indispensable for retailers who want to stay competitive. Yet here'
Your supplier network processes 847 EDI purchase orders monthly, handles API calls from three major retailers, and still receives 23% of orders as PDF attachments via email. Each channel demands different response times, data formats, and integration protocols. Welcome to the omnichannel EDI integration crisis that's costing suppliers
Your supply chain operations already depend on hybrid EDI automation to handle trading partners at different technological stages. The harsh reality? You work with a mix of retailers and clients who still send orders by PDFs, spreadsheets, emails and attachments. This creates a costly operational tax that compounds every time
Supply chain leaders are waking up to a harsh reality: EDI digital fragility has become their biggest blind spot. While you've spent years hardening physical supply chains against disruptions, your digital backbone—the EDI systems and APIs that move 90% of your transactional data—remains dangerously vulnerable to
The numbers tell a sobering story. Third-party vendor and supply chain compromise was the second most prevalent attack vector and second costliest at $4.91 million, while ransomware victims projected to increase by 40% compared to 2024, third-party breaches doubling to 30% of all incidents, and AI-driven attacks expected to
Most transportation management system implementations fail during one specific phase: the attempt to replace EDI entirely with APIs. While 85% of supply chain transactions are still managed through EDI, companies continue pursuing binary migration strategies that break established trading partner networks. The solution isn't choosing between legacy protocols
When EDI transactions meet supply chain complexity, traditional point-to-point data exchange hits a wall. You receive an 850 purchase order, send back an 855 acknowledgment, ship the goods with an 856 advance ship notice. Simple enough. But what happens when your customer asks "Which suppliers impacting my delivery delays
Last quarter, a Fortune 500 manufacturing company faced a €2.5 million loss from EDI pricing discrepancies after their "successful" testing missed critical edge cases in production. The testing team had validated everything perfectly in their controlled environment, yet when transactions hit the real world, 66% of businesses
When your transportation team spends three weeks mapping a single EDI 214 shipment status document, you know there's a problem. AWS B2B Data Interchange's new generative AI capability is now expediting the process of writing and testing bi-directional EDI mappings, reducing the time, effort, and costs
Your TMS vendor just announced a platform migration scheduled for Q2. Your current EDI system handles 400+ transaction maps for 120 trading partners. Moving to the new platform means re-onboarding every single partner, re-mapping every transaction set, and potentially losing partnerships if the migration fails. Sound familiar? EDI performance bottlenecks
Your TMS upgrade just broke connections to 47% of your trading partners. Sound familiar? When an enterprise grows and is looking to implement a new ERP or TMS, the switch will impact EDI with its trading partners. The average company that performs EDI has anywhere from 100-200 partners, and 400-500
Supply chain executives are hemorrhaging money, and most don't even realize it. Nearly a quarter of companies (24%) are losing $500K or more to integration issues related to their supply chains. But here's what the surveys don't tell you: the real damage isn'