// manufacturing

EDI that keeps your line, and your customers, in sync

Purchase orders, forecasts, releases, ASNs, invoices: the document flow between you and every OEM, supplier, and distributor you trade with. Tediware handles all of it. AI-native, reliable, and priced without the enterprise middleware markup.

Start free Talk to an EDI expert

// the problem

In manufacturing, EDI is a condition of doing business

Win a contract with an OEM or a big-box customer and EDI compliance comes attached: planning schedules and releases you have to act on, ASNs that have to be exact, invoices that have to reconcile, all on the customer's timeline. Miss a release or ship a bad ASN and you're not just non-compliant, you're a line-down risk to the customer who mandated it.

Most manufacturers meet that bar with expensive middleware or a legacy VAN that treats every new supplier connection as a billable project. Tediware meets it with AI-assisted setup and transparent pricing instead.

// the solution

What makes it different

Forecast-to-invoice, handled end to end

830 planning schedules and 862 releases coming in, 856 ASNs and 810 invoices going out: the whole planning-to-payment loop mapped and monitored, so a schedule change is a signal, not a scramble.

Onboard a trading partner in days

New customer, new supplier, new spec: AI does the mapping, so adding a partner isn't a quarter-long integration project. Bring EDI in-house without hiring an EDI team.

Reliability is the product

Just-in-time leaves no room for a silent failure. Fault-tolerant transport and acknowledgments that actually reconcile keep you off your customer's corrective-action list: the unglamorous engineering that matters most when a document drop means a stopped line.

// proof

Proven under load

Tediware runs 25,000 transactions a month at 100% uptime for a Transport Topics Top-100 carrier group, and it displaced two incumbents for a retailer shipping live product into Petco. The same reliability, the same AI-assisted onboarding, and the same aligned pricing carry discrete and process manufacturing document flows.

As an official X12 Commercial Use Partner, Tediware works directly from the standard your customers hand you.

// the document set

How EDI works in manufacturing

Manufacturing EDI runs on a tighter, more forward-looking document set than retail. It's not just orders and invoices, it's forecasts and releases that let your customer plan production against your capacity. Here's the core set and where each fits.

830 Planning Schedule with Release Capability: The customer's forecast and material requirements over a horizon. The document that lets you plan raw materials and capacity ahead of firm orders.
862 Shipping Schedule: Firm, near-term ship instructions that refine the 830. Central to just-in-time programs.
850 Purchase Order: A discrete order, for programs that order rather than release.
855 Purchase Order Acknowledgment: You confirm the order or release, line by line.
856 Advance Ship Notice (ASN): Exactly what's shipping, packed how, often tied to labeling and receiving automation on the customer's dock.
861 Receiving Advice / Acceptance Certificate: The customer confirms what they received and accepted. Where discrepancies surface.
810 Invoice: You bill against the shipment.
820 Payment Order / Remittance Advice: Payment and remittance detail back to you.
865 Purchase Order Change Acknowledgment: You confirm or propose changes to an order (seller-initiated).
866 Production Sequence: Line-sequenced delivery instructions, common in automotive and other sequenced-assembly supply chains.
997 Functional Acknowledgment: The machine receipt confirming each document was received and valid.

Inheriting a customer's spec, or bringing EDI in-house without an EDI team? That's exactly what Tediware is built for. Talk to an EDI expert.