The success of your EDI Program will be dependent upon the support of upper management and the active participation of the business or account management resources in your company, as these are the people that will understand your potential trading partners' needs. If you wish to actively pursue additional trading partners, you may want to assign a person to serve as your EDI Resource. This person would be responsible for recruiting new partners and coordinating EDI implementation between the companies and their respective VANs. Conferences and trade publications are valuable sources of information, necessary to staying abreast of this actively growing field. A Value Added Network provides the service of storing and forwarding your EDI documents to and from your Trading Partners.
VANs often provide additional services, such as audit reporting and translation.
When interviewing VANs, you will want to verify they have agreements to interconnect with the VANs used by your partners and determine what additional costs are incurred for the interconnect. We support the use of Interconnects between Ordernet and the customer's VAN of choice. Network costs are equally shared between us and our customers. The following are the steps that typically occur when you elect to participate in our EDI Program. You review our EDI Implementation Guidelines and our EDI Agreement.