{"id":13752,"date":"2021-01-20T15:25:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T13:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gs1.se\/guides\/how-to-guides\/electronic-commerce-edi-for-smes\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T11:05:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T09:05:08","slug":"electronic-commerce-edi-for-smes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gs1.se\/en\/guides\/how-to-guides\/electronic-commerce-edi-for-smes\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic commerce (EDI) for small to medium-sized companies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This guide provides a step-by-step description of what your company needs to do to start trading electronically with your business partners using ESAP business processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-getting-started\">Getting started<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Electronic commerce does not just provide advantages to large companies. Small and medium-sized companies, too, have a lot to gain from electronic commerce. Your customer may want your company to start doing business electronically, but consider that purchases of office supplies or telephony services can be billed electronically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gs1.org\/ecom\/implementation\">View this page on GS1\u2019s global website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1-select-business-process\">1. Select business process<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Choose the business process depending on who you receive information from and who to send to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gs1.se\/en\/standards-and-services\/esap-6-call-of-from-framework-agreement\/\" target=\"_blank\">Call-off from frame contracts<\/a> is common for companies that do business with the public sector and also within the construction industry.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gs1.se\/en\/standards-and-services\/esap-20-1-retail-supply-chain\/\" target=\"_blank\">Retail supply chain<\/a> is a general business process for goods flow in general and specialist retail.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gs1.se\/en\/standards-and-services\/esap-9-1-periodic-invoicing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Periodic invoicing<\/a> is used for billing electricity, water or telephony services as well as credit card usage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the guideline and specifications for the business process you have chosen so that you can implement the process correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2-choose-an-e-commerce-system\">2. Choose an e-commerce system<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Depending on your requirements and the capabilities of your existing business system, you can choose different types of solutions for electronic commerce:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Your business system already includes the functionality needed for electronic commerce for your chosen business process. Contact your business system supplier for more information.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A web-based e-commerce system can provide a quick and simple solution. It is appropriate when you do not have your own business system, where your business system does not have the correct functionality, or while you are waiting for these functions to be added. You communicate with your customer through a website, receive orders and enter information such as order responses or invoices which is then sent to the customer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-3-subscribe-to-a-gs1-company-prefix\">3. Subscribe to a GS1 Company Prefix<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In order for your business partner to see who the business messages have come from, your company needs to identify with a <a href=\"https:\/\/gs1.se\/en\/standards-and-services\/global-location-number-gln\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GLN (GS1 location number).<\/a> Similarly, your business partners identify themselves so that you know who you&#8217;ve received the information from. In order to send and receive electronic business information according to GS1 Sweden&#8217;s business processes for electronic commerce, the business parties must identify with GLN. GLN is included when ordering a GS1 Company Prefix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gs1.se\/en\/faq\/fees-and-forms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fees for GS1 Company Prefix<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/my.gs1.se\/en\/Orders\/IdentifyCompany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Order GS1 Company Prefix<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-4-prepare-for-electronic-commerce\">4. Prepare for electronic commerce<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Send and receive master data about parties, delivery points, products, and so on by exchanging party information, price lists and trade item information. Your business partner might have several delivery points each of which is identified with a GLN, so you will need to set up a database with party information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember that master data must not be accidentally updated since it includes such things as account numbers for payments. Consider locking the information against unauthorised access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-5-sign-an-interchange-agreement\">5. Sign an interchange agreement<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Sign an interchange agreement with every business partner. This agreement assigns responsibility to the parties for the exchange and logging of business information carried in the electronic business messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-6-start-trading-electronically\">6. Start trading electronically<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When the master data is in place, your company is ready to do business in a new way by receiving electronic call-offs or orders as well as sending information on deliveries and invoices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are a supplier, your company can receive electronic calls or orders and send notifications about deliveries and invoices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are a customer company, your company can send electronic calls or orders and receive notifications about deliveries and invoices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guide describes step by step what small to medium-sized companies need to do to start trading electronically with other business partners according to ESAP business processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"parent":2546,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"edi (80), Electronic commerce (80)","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"40513,40502,38923,33673,13113,33447","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13752","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Electronic commerce (EDI) for small to medium-sized companies &#187; 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