EDI Integration for Walmart
Seamless AS2 Communication with Walmart
Ensure compliance with Walmart’s EDI requirements for seamless B2B workflows, from purchase orders to invoices.
Ensure compliance with Walmart’s EDI requirements for seamless B2B workflows, from purchase orders to invoices.
Walmart believes that its business partners must embrace EDI to maximize operational efficiency, cut operational expenses, and improve the overall consumer experience through supply chain streamlining and mistake reduction.
As an approved Walmart vendor, you'll receive various EDI documents, such as Purchase Orders (X12 850) and Organizational Relationships (X12 816), and must respond promptly. In addition to receiving documents, you may need to send others in return, including Advance Ship Notices (X12 856) and Invoices (X12 810). Additionally Walmart may also require Bar-Coded Labels (GS1-128, formerly UCC-128) when sending these documents.
You’ll receive purchase orders via EDI, which can be managed manually through Retail Link or automatically through an in house EDI solution or third party EDI service vendor.
Upon receiving an order, you’ll need to process it, generate an invoice, and update Walmart’s systems with shipping information. EDI solution ensures that this information flows seamlessly between your business and Walmart.
Staying compliant with Walmart’s EDI requirements is essential. Non-compliance can result in penalties or even termination of your vendor agreement.
EDI files exchanged between Walmart and its vendors contain complex data elements, segment separators, and codes, making them vulnerable to interception. To maintain security and compliance, Walmart requires vendors to use secure file exchange methods such as AS2, SFTP, and VAN, replacing unsecured communication channels, AS2 being the most common protocol.
By opting for a third-party EDI solution like ours instead of building your own AS2 EDI infrastructure, you can efficiently achieve and maintain EDI compliance within the retail supply chain.
We provide a web-based platform to translate, validate and transfer EDI files via AS2, and support for any EDI definition and any EDI partner over X12. You can read received EDIs like purchase orders and load tenders in human-friendly formats, as well as generate EDIs like PO acknowledgements, shipment notices, invoices, shipment statuses and send them over AS2.
We offer comprehensive suite of AS2 EDI products; the MFT Gateway, which handles EDI transmissions over AS2 and SFTP protocols, and the EDI Generator, which handles EDI content.
MFT Gateway can transmit literally anything (even a video clip or a regulatory submission), and EDI Generator can process virtually any EDI document (as long as the specification or schema is available)—even including generic documents that are originating or being exchanged outside of MFT Gateway. But of course, the real power comes when the two platforms operate in unison.
EDI Generator simplifies your workflow by managing EDI file processing and AS2 transmission—all without multiple software installations. Request a demo and we ll walk you through how it can empower your business to take full control of your EDI.
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Seamlessly connect with trading partners while ensuring full EDI compliance for
streamlined and secure data exchange.
