5/5/2026

Why businesses choose EDI

Learn why Electronic Data Interchange is essential for efficient business operations and how it automates the exchange of documents between systems.

Judith de Witte

Why businesses choose EDI

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) makes it possible to automatically exchange business documents such as orders, delivery notes and invoices between systems.

Instead of manually transferring data from emails, PDFs or Excel files, information is processed directly in your system.

The result: fewer errors, lower costs and a significantly faster process.

Less manual work, more results

With EDI, an order is received directly into your system. No retyping, no misunderstandings and no delays.

Invoices are also processed faster, resulting in shorter lead times and often quicker payments. You save time on administration and create space to focus on growth.

Meeting customer and supply chain requirements

More and more customers, retailers and logistics partners require EDI as a condition for cooperation. Without digital connections, it becomes harder to integrate and remain competitive.

EDI ensures you can meet these requirements effortlessly and are ready for further digitalisation within your supply chain.

Scalable growth without extra pressure

As your organisation grows, the number of orders, deliveries and documents also increases. Without automation, this means more manual work and a higher risk of errors.

With EDI, your processes scale with your business without increasing administrative workload.

More control and insight

Automated data processing ensures up-to-date and reliable data. You gain better control over your processes, improved insight into order flows and greater visibility across your supply chain.

This makes your organisation more agile and better prepared for change.

How we can help

With the T2S EDI Platform, Type 2 Solutions helps organisations implement EDI quickly and efficiently within existing systems such as ERP, WMS and CRM.

We also offer a low-threshold, ready-to-use solution via our EDI webportal, allowing you to start immediately without complex integration.

For generating SSCC labels, we provide our Palletlabel.com solution. This helps you easily meet logistics labelling requirements and seamlessly connects EDI and labelling.