Your distributor requires EDI. We build the connection, run it, and your documents stop bouncing.

EDI modernization is the work of replacing brittle, vendor-owned EDI mappings with AI-assisted, customer-owned implementations that ship faster and fail less. TrueCommerce and SPS Commerce sell you a hosted platform with per-document and per-partner fees; you license access to mappings the vendor maintains. Modernization keeps the X12 / EDIFACT compliance, adds AI-driven mapping and validation, and leaves the IP with you. The legacy retailer mandates do not change; the cost of compliance and the speed of partner onboarding do.

Both. Most distributor and supplier ecosystems are mixed. Walmart and Target still mandate X12 transaction sets, while newer partners want REST or event-driven integration. We ship a single engagement that handles both protocols with one observability layer. No rip-and-replace: existing legacy mappings stay live while new ones come online beside them.

The honest answer is that timing depends on partner complexity, transaction sets, current vendor dependency, ERP/WMS readiness, and the fallback plan. A standard partner is very different from a high-volume retailer with custom ASN rules and chargeback exposure. The Assessment produces the wave plan, cutover criteria, and risk controls before any timeline is promised.

All standard supply-chain sets: 850 PO, 855 PO acknowledgement, 856 ASN, 810 invoice, 820 payment / remittance, 832 catalog, 940 warehouse shipping order, 945 warehouse shipping advice, 846 inventory advice, 869 order status inquiry, 870 order status report, 997 functional acknowledgement, 824 application advice. EDIFACT equivalents (ORDERS, ORDRSP, DESADV, INVOIC, REMADV, INVRPT) on the same engagement. Custom transaction sets and trading-partner-specific deviations are scoped in the Assessment.

SPS is worth it when you have a small partner count, no engineering bandwidth, and you accept per-partner pricing as the cost of doing business. It stops being worth it when the per-document bill, the ticket queue, and the chargebacks add up to more than a connection you own. We count that on the call, with your invoices in front of us.

Yes, and the migration is the engagement. We run a parallel implementation alongside the existing TrueCommerce mappings, validate each transaction set against the retailer's companion guide and your historical document corpus, then cut over partner-by-partner. Walmart, Target, Kroger, Home Depot, Lowe's, and Costco compliance is preserved across the cutover. The Assessment determines whether full migration, hybrid operation, or partner-by-partner decommissioning is the right path.

Healthcare EDI (270, 271, 276, 277, 278, 834, 835, 837) runs on the same architecture with HIPAA-aware deployment: private model inference, BAA in place, PHI never leaves your environment. What your compliance needs require is confirmed on the call before anything goes live.

It is priced on the call, after we count your distributors, your document volume, and what you pay your current provider per document and per chargeback.

The engagement is led by an operator who shipped EDI implementations at Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits (one of the largest distribution networks in North America) across hundreds of retailer trading partners. Senior engineering through the entire build. No outsourced delivery, no offshore mapping shops.

EDI is the legacy standard for business-to-business document exchange (ANSI ASC X12 in North America, EDIFACT internationally), designed in the 1970s to be transmitted over VAN networks and now typically over AS2, SFTP, or VAN. API integration is the modern equivalent: REST or event-driven JSON over HTTPS. EDI is required by most Fortune 500 retailers and the entire grocery supply chain. API is preferred by digital-native partners. A modern implementation supports both on the same translator so a distributor can serve every partner type without maintaining two systems.