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Communicating With Roadway Via EDI - Getting Started
If you use EDI to process your business transactions, you already know how automation can reduce your administrative costs and speed up the process of filling orders. EDI was first developed in the 1960s with the objective of speeding up the movement of shipping and transportation documents. Its application has expanded from enabling the electronic exchange of purchase orders, acknowledgments, and invoices to include global procurement and sourcing.

Roadway has been a leader in implementing EDI applications in the transportation industry since the early 1970s. We were part of the original Transportation Data Coordinating Committee, a predecessor to the Data Interchange Standards Association who develops the EDI standards utilized today.

Using American National Standards Institute (ANSI) ASC X12 standards
Roadway supports the standard EDI transaction sets used to make the administrative tasks related to shipping more efficient -- from paying freight charges to filling orders and replenishing stock.

To initiate an EDI trading partnership with Roadway Express, talk to your Roadway representative or set it up online.

Not sure about EDI?
EDI is a standardized electronic format in which to place data that will be exchanged between software applications. The data formats, or transactions sets, are usually sent between mainframe computers.

Services are available through the internet that enable non-capable EDI companies to use a PC, internet service and a web browser to exchange documents electronically with their EDI-capable trading partners. A site like Sterling Commerce can tell you more.

Value-Added Networks (VAN)
EDI transmissions can be either direct or via a third party. Our policy is to pay only the Roadway portion of the VAN charges when a third party is used.

Functional Acknowledgments
We encourage and support the use of Functional Acknowledgments as verification of successful transmission.