What is EDI or Electronic Trading?

EDI is your company's future!

Electronic Trading Infograph

As a company that requires EDI it is highly likely that you are a supplier to organisations that require you to trade with them electronically. Typically, you could be a supplier to a large retailer for whom electronic trading using EDI is a pre-requisite. You might also have the requirement to trade electronically with your suppliers and even automate your accounts procedures.

  • Achieve efficiencies and improve productivity in buying, supply chain and finance
  • Make significant and tangible cost savings on your existing E-Business costs
  • Exchange confidential business information safely, accurately and at high speed
  • Expose invaluable supply chain information to your management team
  • Gain competitive advantage from the use of electronic commerce
  • Integrate your business operations
  • Cement strategic partnerships
  • Reduce your carbon footprint and boost your environmental credentials


Supplier Facing EDI

Trading electronically with suppliers can be a complex and costly task, particularly as more suppliers come on board. Ultimate Solutions make it easy and cost effextive to implement your exact requirements.

Send out purchase orders directly from your back office system to your suppliers in any format required

Secure transporting of all messages between you and your suppliers

Please see the Message Hub Section section for our latest implementations.

Customer Facing EDI

We simplify customers' EDI requirements and make it easy to handle multiple communication methods.

We aim to help you towards receiving 100% of your customer orders electronically. The benefits are huge. Making ordering easy for your customers is the secret to company growth

Ultimate Solutions have developed a message hub application which can be tailored to your requirements. Our experience in automating processes are vast, please see the Message Hub Section section for our latest implementations.



Using the "Ultimate Transformer Message Hub" means:

  • that you will be able to collect or receive files from your back office system directly to the Message Hub
  • that you will be able to do any file format transforms to the received file
  • that you will be able to send files to remote parties in any format directly from you Back Office system via the Message Hub
  • that you will be able to collect or receive files directly from any other third party application in the outside world.
  • that you will be able to do any file transforms required to the files received from the third party applications
  • that you will be able to send files received from third party applications directly into your back office systems.
  • Cement strategic partnerships
  • Reduce your carbon footprint and boost your environmental credentials

We have experience of automating various business processes including:

Sales Cycle

  • Receiving Sales from any third party application in any format before sending them into your BOS in the correct format
  • Sending out sales acknowledgements directly from your back office system via the Message Hub in any format to any destination
  • Sending out delivery Notes (Advice Notes) directly from your back office system via the Message Hub in any format to any destination

Purchase Cycle

  • Sending out purchase orders directly from your BOS via the Message hub in any format to any supplier in the outside world
  • Receiving supplier Delivery Notes in any format via the message hub and sending them directly into your BOS in the correct format to be processed

Accounts Cycle

  • Receiving Purchase Invoices from any supplier in any format via the Message Hub and sending them directly into your BOS in the correct forma to be processed
  • Sending out Customer Invoices/Credits directly from your BOS via the Message Hub to any customer in any format they require

The "Ultimate Transformer Message Hub" can integrate with any software application that is able to send and receive electronic documents including ones developed in-house.

Become part of the EDI Revolution. As market conditions drive organizations to look for new ways of saving cost and improving efficiency, a rapidly increasing number are starting to send out invoices as files rather than paper documents.