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EDI is a well-proven business tool for lowering costs, improving business efficiency, speed and accuracy. DXC EDI enables companies to easily setup, send/receive and manage messages with their EDI trading partners, all within Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations.

Powerful functionality extends Microsoft Dynamics 365:

• Receive, create and process Customer EDI documents as D365 transactions

• Process D365 transactions and send to Customers as EDI documents

• Trading partners are created and managed within D365 and linked to valid

customers EDI data available on D365 transactions (i.e.. Sales order line details)

• Effortlessly navigate from EDI incoming and outgoing files to applicable D365

transaction

• Store codes field on Customer address

Benefits

• Natively integrated with

Microsoft Dynamics 365

• Trading partners setup within

D365 and linked to applicable

customers

• Reduce administration costs

and user errors

• Ability to define error control

• Various communication

method options

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Electronic Data Interchange - Customer

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Features:

• Various communication methods available

Setup connection details and credentials as well as incoming and outgoing paths for Production and Test environments.

FTP, Azure, Cloud blob storage

• Flexible setup options by trading partner

Define document types and templates for each trading partner

Easily configure validation profiles for error handling per document type and trading partner.

Manage error documents via workspaces or staging forms

Outbound filename can be built assigned using D365 embedded fields from the trigger transaction

• Customer

Create new sales orders or release against an agreement/blanket order

Option to use system price or customer price within allowed variance values for each EDI customer

D365 delivery date control based on requested receipt date applied to Sales orders with validation tolerance

Inventory dimensions can be specified on inbound file lines and D365 transaction processed accordingly

Option to put Sales order on hold based on Purchase Order Confirmation (POC) and/or Purchase Order Acceptance (POA) settings

Ability to send ASN per delivery note or consolidate per consignment note

Trading partner

Setup Customer trading partner

Incoming documents: Defines the

incoming EDI document types that

have been configured and enabled

for the trading partner. It brings

the document template, mappings,

validation profiles and setting

profiles together along with a file

mask for importing to enable the

document for the trading partner.

Outgoing documents: Defines the

outgoing EDI document types that

have been configured and enabled

for the trading partner. It brings the

document template and mappings

together with the settings profiles to

enable the document for the trading

partner

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Document types

Various document types are

available in DXC EDI - Customer

for D365.

Easily define templates, settings/

parameters, validation profiles, field

metadata and outbound filenames

and assign to Customers on Trading

Partner setup.

Receive purchase order, sales

agreements or releases from

Customer and send optional

acknowledgement for quantity,

price and delivery dates.

Send advanced shipping

notification (ASN) and sales invoice.

Document mapping

For Text documents specify the

columns within the file that are

to be mapped to D365. Can also

set static values for outbound

documents.

Function: Option to apply any

of the following functions to the

mapping, dependent on the type

of field.

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Document setting profiles

Easily configure business process

logic for each document and trading

partner.

Purchase Order (PO)

Easily configure business logic parameters such as:

• Item Id source: our item number, external item number, GTIN or barcode

• Price includes tax (Y/N)

• Use customer price (Y/N)

• Maximum positive and negative price variance

Purchase agreement

• Create release order without blanket order: yes, no or warning

• Duplicate tolerance on customer order number: accept, error or update existing

Purchase Order Acknowledgement (POA)

• Lock order for POA (Y/N): sales order can’t be processed until POA has been

sent

• Safety level of sales order if POA has been sent: none, warning or locked

• Purchase order confirmation (POC) required (Y/N)

Acknowledgement

• Set defaults for automatic POA

• Set default response codes

Advanced Shipping Notification (ASN)

• Single/Consolidated packing slip

• Part/Full shipment identifier

• Date source: header or lines

• Date strategy: earliest or latest

Sales order:

• Delivery date: Customer order’s requested receipt date doesn’t fall within D365

delivery date control calculation.

• Minimum/maximum quantity: Customer order’s quantity doesn’t comply to

item’s minimum and maximum quantity.

• Sales price: Customer order’s price doesn’t comply to trade agreement and,

where applicable, allowed sales price variation.

• Sales unit: Customer order’ unit doesn’t equal item’s sales unit.

Document validation profiles

Validation profiles are groups of

business validation rules that can be

applied to a trading partner. They

provide the ability to set variable

tolerances on various aspects of the

documents business process.

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Workspace

Review and manage errors via

Workspace or staging forms.

Managing files

View/manually import Inbound or

export Outbound files. Ability to

view original file as attachment.

Alternatively manually process

Inbound to Staging or Send

Outbound files.

Outbound File Names

The module allows per document

type many different file name

masks to be configured and one to

be specified on the trading partners

setup.

A file name mask can have

information from fields within the

document embedded so file name

uniqueness and readability can be

achieved.

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Staging forms

Inbound and Outbound files written

to Staging forms. Ability to navigate

to target transaction or re-process

error document.

View error text per document.

Batch control

Automate your EDI processing by

utilizing D365 batch control by

Company.

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DXC Eclipse helps enterprise and mid-market companies accelerate digital

transformation, solve business challenges and deliver intelligent solutions that make

a difference for clients, employees and partners. We believe in delivering expertise,

project transparency and excellent customer service in every engagement. With

team members in North America, EMEA, Asia and Australia-New Zealand, we are

uniquely positioned to deliver Microsoft Dynamics 365, ERP, CRM, business process,

analytics and collaboration solutions to clients across the globe. The largest

independent Microsoft Dynamics partner in the world, DXC Eclipse serves more than

4,000 clients across multiple industries. Our practice delivers services and solutions

that make a positive impact on our world today and into the future.