Fourth Integrations: Supplier Integration Options

Option 1: EDI

This will facilitate a full integration, i.e. all message types will be exchanged electronically between customer and supplier, thereby eliminating any ‘keying-in’ mistakes and/or manual duplication.

A full integration significantly reduces errors, timely payments, clean orders, and no ‘lost’ invoices to the supplier.
Two options are possible:
Full EDI with Fourth Standard Formats (CSV or XML)
Full EDI with  supplier-specific format

The following links are applicable for a Full EDI integration only. Anything outside of the standard formats will need to be scoped and quoted accordingly:

CSV Guide
XML Guide
FTP Guide
AS2 Guide

Please reach out to your Fourth contact for information on pricing.

Option 2: Email & Web

Will facilitate that orders will be sent across to you, the supplier, as emails. The customer would then expect you, the supplier, to log on to the Supplier Trade Simple website and manually confirm the order.

Once goods are ‘picked and dispatched’ you will be expected to create a delivery note and invoice via the Supplier Trade Simple website.

If at any point the volume and work involved in the manual Email & Web option starts to become prohibitive (normally around 100 orders/month) then the option to become fully integrated (EDI) is available.

Please reach out to your Fourth contact for information on pricing.