About The Service

About the service

Most companies with a substantial supplier base already use EDI technology.
EDI has often proved more suitable for larger suppliers. EDI tradefast extends
the reach of EDI to the smaller supplier.

EDI tradefast provides smaller suppliers with a low cost, easy-to-use e-business
solution that allows them to trade electronically with their trading partner over the
Internet.

EDI tradefast from eircom net can be applied to most business information problems,
from improving internal processes to communication with a whole supplier community
exchanging business information securely. The types of information that can be
exchanged include orders, invoices, shipping and sales documents.

The principle facilities available for users of the service are:

sending and receiving data between authorised trading partners

ability to send data at a user's convenience and for recipients to collect the
data at their convenience

password controlled access

ability to change passwords remotely by authorised users

selection of documents from the users site

deletion of documents from the users site

archiving of documents on the users site

tax reporting

automatic message deletion after 6 weeks

audit trail information provides confirmation of delivery or non delivery of documents

message validation

access to the business hours Service Desk "Helpline"

implementation and set-up telephone assistance by eircom net consultants

The Internet is used to access the eircom net EDI tradefast service. This will be either
by a dial-up (PSTN), ISDN, DSL or leased line connection according to the data volumes to
be transmitted and received and the frequency of use.

Your trading partner can send business documents through an EDI tradefast
website at agreed times during the day.

You can then log on to the site and print out or download or these documents instantaneously.

Users of the Service basically transmit data via a computer connection made
between their own computer and the EDI tradefast service.

The service then acts as a clearing-house sorting the transmitted data and
delivering it to the address specified by the sender. The trading partners can then,
via a similar computer connection to the service, collect the transmitted data at
their convenience.

The service supports the EDIFACT, TRADACOMS and ANSI X12 data standards.
It also incorporates a high level of security to help ensure that transmitted data is
available only to authorised users. Access to the service is via passwords, the generation
and maintenance of which are within the user's control.

provides smaller suppliers with a low cost, easy to use EDI enabling solution.

is easy to use, cost effective and flexible

improves frequency of payment to terms

enhances your business cycle times by reducing the amount of time it takes
to produce and deliver your business documents to your trading partners. It
also minimises administration overheads

maximise sales opportunity