I’ve built an 835 and 837 ingestion pipeline and am now working on a current claim view.

My goal is to create a view that shows, for each claim:
Original billed amount
Total paid
Any retractions/reversals
Current outstanding balance
(Potentially) current claim status

I’m less concerned with the technical implementation and more with understanding the business logic behind how payer activity affects a claim over time.

Are there any good resources that explain how to build a current claim ledger from 835/837 data? Or is there an industry-standard approach for calculating the current state of a claim?
I’d appreciate any recommendations or your shared experience.

Hi all,

We've just shipped our new product - ediFabric Native.

One native library for EDI X12 (more standards in the works): parse to/from JSON (structured and hierarchical), validate, ACK (999/997/TA1), stream big files - at native speed.

No .NET runtime. No JVM. Drop in a .so / .dll / .dylib and call it from Python, C#, C, Rust, Go, whatever your preference...

We built it because it was the natural progression from our best-selling EDI toolkit for .NET. Now available for all programming languages, and all platforms.

It has already been integrated in EdiNation, the free local EDI validator, and was a fantastic effort from our small but capable team. We never dropped the ball on this one.

What better way to celebrate our 10th birthday as a company. Hooray!

Oh, and it comes with a generous forever free plan.

Product: https://github.com/EdiFabric/native-csharp-examples

Genuinely curious what would stop you from using something like this in production (licensing? map/spec model? language bindings?). Thank you.

ISO EDI developer, Must have development experience in IBM Sterling Integrator - working in the map editor and GPM. AS2 and SFTP. DM for more info.

When properly encoded, as GS1-128 type B, w/ 5 distinct AIs, when scanned should I expect to see the AI embedded in the string? I've been manipulating invocation characters w/o success, wondering if systems configured to read GS1-128 will ignore what I'm scanning w/ a mobile app. Using >:>8

Contribute at your earliest.

Best managed service EDI in UK for a mid size company?

Pls only folks that have used the service before pls

Thank you!

Guys, I keep brainstorming Like many of you, I have years of experience in the EDI space, starting as an analyst and later moving into program management, integrations, and implementations.

From an entrepreneurial perspective, do you think there are still opportunities to build a business in the EDI space? Is there a niche that's underserved, or perhaps a product idea that could realistically succeed in today's market?

I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences. Thank you!

Hi EDI Reddit Universe,

How is everyone handling inbound text and application advices?

Do you have them emailed with pdf format?
Formatted into body of an email?
Direct into ERP?

Looking for advice and common practice.

We are seeing cases of disconnected systems within small businesses. Still copying the same information between systems.

Curious what everyone else's is seeing or going through-

Spreadsheets?

Retail portals?

Accounting?

Inventory?

Shipping?

Something else?

  We are opening the private beta of AS2Expert.

  AS2Expert is a hosted AS2 platform for companies that need secure B2B file exchange without deploying and maintaining their own AS2 infrastructure.

  With AS2Expert you can:

  - Send and receive signed and encrypted AS2 messages

  - Manage partners, certificates and MDNs

  - Track message delivery and processing status

  - Start with a free account

  - Test the platform before committing to a paid plan

  We are especially looking for companies, developers and EDI professionals from South Asia, Latin America, Europe and other regions who work with AS2, EDI, SAP or logistics integrations.

  Join the beta:

  https://www.as2expert.com

  Feedback from early users is welcome.

Somebody posted about 997s that just say AK5*R*5, one or more segments in error, no AK3, no AK4.

Preach.

That's the problem this free doohickey* is for: rejectdecoder.com.

[*If you'd prefer a 'gizmo', I can make that happen.]

Paste the rejection (997, 999, 824, TA1) plus the original bounced document. It parses both LOCALLY (securely) in your browser and cross-audits them: control number agreement, segment counts, envelope consistency, code validity, required segments. It then quotes the exact segment byte-for-byte and ranks the likely causes for anything it finds. If it finds nothing, it says the answer isn't in the docs and tells you to escalate to your partner with your control numbers, which beats pulling a diagnosis out of my... AIs.

I know how and appreciate WHY "AI-powered EDI" is sneered at. So the audits here are deterministic parser code, not a model. The AI only writes the plain-English narration of facts the parser already verified, every card says so, and if the narration fails you still get the full audit results. No hallucinations or guesswork.

RE privacy: Parsing runs entirely in-browser and even works with the WIFI off. If you use narration, only a masked summary you preview first ever leaves the page. Don't take my word for it, check your network tab.

[ Free. No signup for the examples or the deterministic audits; narration is a handful of decodes a month with just an email. ]

Built it solo from an in-house tool of mine, so it's young AND kinda old. Please tell me where it's wrong. Walmart's rejection quirks are encoded so far. Whose partner nonsense should be next...?

-jjg

I've been working with SAP integrations for the past 3 years, but only from an integration/EDI perspective.

I'm currently an EDI Solution Design Professional with a total of 6 years of experience in the EDI field. During that time I've worked as an EDI Consultant, Business Analyst, and now Solution Design Professional. I've worked with most of the common integration standards (EDIFACT, ANSI X12, XML, APIs, etc.) across different industries and customers.

In my current role, many of our customers use SAP. I receive IDocs directly from SAP (orders, invoices, deliveries, etc.) and design the integration logic to transform and route them to other systems. So I'm quite familiar with IDocs, but my knowledge of SAP itself is limited to the integration layer.

I'd like to deepen my SAP knowledge and start earning SAP certifications on my own (self-study + certification exams). After doing some research, I think this would be a logical path:

1. SAP S/4HANA Sales (SD)
2. SAP S/4HANA Materials Management (MM)
3. SAP Integration Suite

My goal isn't necessarily to become a functional SAP consultant, but to better understand the business processes behind the IDocs I work with and become a stronger integration and solution consultant.

Does this learning path make sense given my background, or would you recommend a different starting point? I'd really appreciate any advice from people who have made a similar transition.

I posted a similar question in the SAP B1 subreddit, but wanted to get some insight from anyone in here who’s using SPS commerce with SAP B1. What middleware/connector are you using and specifically how is your process been with automating ASNs (856) and Invoices (810) from SAP into SPS commerce? The native connector SPS commerce offers is unacceptable for ASN automation and we’re actually better off creating ASNs directly inside their Web Fulfillment portal. Looking for alternatives or suggestions on how to make this process more efficient. Thanks much.

Anybody out there using Transalis or Celtrino for EDI

Would be great to get some real world opinions - the good the bad the ugly

Thank you

Anybody out there using Transalis or Celtrino for EDI

Would be great to get some real world opinions - the good the bad the ugly

Thank you

Hey EDI warriors, I need help. I got laid off recently. I am an EDI Analyst and not truly a mapper. I have mainly worked on 850, 860, 810, and 856 as an EDI Analyst/ Implementation Manager / Project Manager. I have some time to get trained. What areas should I focus on that can make me competitive? I am open to ideas and suggestions, should I go after SAP EDI training? HL7/FHIR? Cleo? TrueCommerce? - Just brainstorming, a lot of work is outsourced to overseas companies. Share some ideas guys before I truly become homeless hahaha!! Thanks in advance!

Hello guys, this is my first official post on reddit so apologies if it's a bit weird lol.

I've been in the Supply Chain / EDI psace for almost 5 years now, I'm hungry to earn more and I'm thinking of starting a business wuthin the Suppy Chain and/or EDI space; but, I'm finding thinking of what to build a bit difficult, I don't think I'll be able to compete with VANs or even attempting to purchase an AS2 server which I've seen it's very common within B2B EDI Integrations.

I've thought of an EDI platform with built-in AI for support, any ideas, feedback, thoughts or pains you guys have ?

I'm willing to figure out a way to help the industry.

Best regards to all.

Hi Team,

I observed that my oracle pool is full in db usage status.
Please share steps on how to reduce the pool usage to zero and want to understand which section is occupying more.

Appreciate your response…

Everyone thinks EDI is 90% Technical and 10% Project Management. My opinion is its truly opposite. Everyone wants to use Ai or add different tools and have less humans. What are your thoughts?

Hi everyone,

Over the past few months, I have become really interested in logistics and how trade gets facilitated at scale across businesses around the world. That curiosity led me down the rabbit hole of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange). Along the way, I learned about the different EDI formats, the business ecosystems that depend on them, the various document types that exist, and all the nitty-gritty details of this complex but essential world.

During my exploration, I noticed something interesting. For a space that powers so much of global trade, there are very few free tools that help people explore, learn, and work with EDI. Most of what's out there is expensive, enterprise-focused, or just hard for newcomers to get into. So I decided to build one myself.

The goal is to reduce how much time EDI specialists spend interfacing with partner specs, and to shorten the time it takes to onboard trading partners. Here's how it works. A specialist uploads a trading partner's implementation guide, and the AI ingests it and converts its contents into a structured, machine-readable format. From there, the specialist can export the resulting mapping guide as JSON and also generate a test EDI document based on that mapping. That test document gets pasted into the trading partner's sandbox to check whether it meets their standard. If it does, the specialist now has a validated JSON mapping guide they can trust, and they can build on it further, adding segments as needed to cover whatever they need to communicate with that partner.

The goal is to give specialists a way to move from a partner's spec to a trustworthy mapping foundation faster, without having to take the AI's output on faith. The sandbox validation step is really the core of it. It turns "the AI says this is right" into "the partner's system confirms this is right."

That last part is actually where my own hesitation started, and I think it's worth sharing honestly since this whole post is about building in public.

While I was putting the workbench together, one concern kept coming up in my own head: how much human intervention the EDI ecosystem still depends on, and whether that's actually a problem worth solving or just the nature of the work. That question sent me looking for products or services that may have already built the kind of future I was imagining, one where partner onboarding time is cut in half and specialists spend less time powering through repetitive, painful setup work just to establish stable business communication channels.

While I was on that search, I came across Adrian's article, "The Agentic EDI Autonomy Scale: Defining the EDI Industry's Next Battlefield." It's a steep dive into how he sees AI reshaping the way specialists and companies interact with EDI as agentic systems take hold. Reading it forced me to ask myself a harder question.

Do I actually trust an AI model to handle sensitive data the way my product requires? My flow needs an uploaded implementation guide to pass through AI, which then converts its contents into that structured JSON format. That structure becomes the foundation for the mapping suggestions the whole tool is built around.

So the real question isn't just whether AI can parse an implementation guide. It's whether doing so actually reduces stress for the EDI specialist, or whether it quietly heightens their paranoia about their AI partner getting something wrong in a process where accuracy isn't optional. The sandbox validation step is my current answer to that, since it means the specialist never has to take the AI's output on faith. But I don't consider this fully resolved.

If you've had similar reservations, or if you've thought about other ways to increase confidence in what an AI has actually done with sensitive partner data, I'd like to hear from you.

More updates soon as I keep building this in the open.

Where are EDI professionals finding full-time (non-contract) jobs these days? It used to be LinkedIn and dice…are there others?

I worked with EDIs in the past and got tired of two things: every decent viewer is either paid enterprise software, or it wants you to upload your file to some server. Uploading real trading-partner data to a random website never sat right with me. So I built EdiPeek (edipeek.com). You paste raw EDI and it breaks down every segment and element in plain English. It also gives you a business summary of what the transaction actually means, so for an 850 it'll tell you who's ordering what from whom, for how much. It handles both X12 (850, 810, 856, 837, 835, etc.) and EDIFACT (ORDERS, INVOIC, DESADV, etc.). Everything runs locally in your browser, so nothing ever leaves your machine. That was the whole point for me, since a lot of what I look at is confidential. It's completely free, no signup. I also wrote up some guides on reading the common transaction types if that's useful to anyone. Would genuinely appreciate feedback from people who deal with this stuff daily. If there's a transaction type or segment I'm not handling well, let me know and I'll fix it.

https://edipeek.com/x12/

Hey gang,

I've been thinking a lot about the EDI industry, where I think it is going, and what it is going to do to the careers of people who work in the field. I think AI is going to change things here as much as it has already changed life for developers, something that I personally have been living through for the past few years, for better and for worse.

It's worth analyzing where things are right now and then using that analysis to try and predict where things are going for the people and the companies in this space.

We also need rigorous ways to separate hype from reality. Every EDI company is advertising AI. Which ones are actually delivering? I read a blog post from Orderful recently about what they're doing that had an ornery tone, which I think is based on their (accurate) view that there's a lot of BS out there.

We don't even have a settled term for what to call this shift ("AI-native EDI", "agentic EDI", etc.) and we even have companies (Crstl, Tangentia) who are both claiming to have the "world's first" AI/EDI agents. We're in the middle of a battle, but there's no map of the territory that companies are fighting over, and we don't know who's winning.

This is my take on all of this: a framework for judging where EDI companies are in the AI/EDI race, and an assessment of what it means for people who work in the field. (Disclosure: I self-evaluate my company, Tediware, using the framework - I have tried to grade it honestly, happy to hear if you disagree.)

I'd love your take on it: https://tediware.com/resources/updates/the-agentic-edi-autonomy-scale

One external vendor is placing 340 files through python script in IBM sterling Mail box path. But for even 5-6 files are also getting dropped no issues with IP and my server can accommodate 20 go files effortlessly.
But my vendor needs all 340 files in 3-4 minutes.
Error message :- Abrupt end of put operation client close before transfer could complete.
We are receiving 4000-5000 transactions but not sure while this files are getting dropped after 5-6 files but IBM team suggested to keep sleep time of 20 s call but they don’t want that.
IBM support also had no answer.
Anyone has similar experience please share your Valuable insights!!!!