Fully managed and totally open; our solutions are designed for any size business..
Electronic Document Interchange
First B2B’s EDI solutions are fully-managed and hosted on your behalf. This means you simply connect to our EDI cloud to begin offering EDI facilities to your customers or trading community and we will take care of all the translating and transporting of yours and your partners document messages.
Our fully-managed service can include all promotional work, community management, message translation, testing, integration, validation and day-to-day running. Leaving you to focus on your business, confident your customers or trading partners are receiving the highest-quality service.
A series of Cloud based fully-managed solutions
At the core of our EDI service lies iXchange, a fully-managed, secure, robust, open and scalable hub, designed for Enterprise Software Vendors, Consultancies and Vertical Market Trading communities looking to establish an EDI hub for a single customer or establish a complete e-commerce network of trading partners.
Complementing iXchange is the First B2B EDI repository, a fully-managed EDI service, pre-configured with literally hundreds of messaging formats to enable single trading partners to quickly and cost effectively establish EDI with companies including Wal*Mart, Sun, Tesco, ASDA, Morrisons, John Lewis and J Sainsbury as well as many leading organisations across Retail, Manufacturing, Construction, Government, Logistics, Leisure and Electronics.
Both iXchange and the First B2B EDI repository are on-demand, fully managed solutions, which alleviate the need for any software to be installed by any trading partner. In addition, based on a fixed fee and timescale basis Perceptant will also take care of all EDI message translation and mapping work.
- First B2B Repository - A fully managed, preconfigured on-demand EDI service designed for suppliers whose customers demand that trading takes place electronically. This solution is tightly integrated in the core back office system, which allows Enterprise Software Vendors, Consultancies and Vertical Market Trading communities to quickly roll-out solutions to all of their customers or trading community. The repository also allows all trading partners involved in a message exchange to see, in a humanly readable format (not and EDI document) the data that has been exchange and the date and time that data was exchanged.
- First B2B iXchange - A fully managed, on-demand, scalable and open EDI hub designed for suppliers or customers looking to build a complete trading community. Again tightly integrated in to core back office systems, this solution allows customers of Software Vendors and Consultancies or Heads of Supply Chains to implement a solution that carries none of the limitations usually associated with traditional EDI hubs.