EDI Integration Services Without the Per-Document Fee
Your biggest retailer mandates EDI, your VAN bills per kilocharacter, and your ERP still gets a CSV someone re-keys. We build EDI integration services into the stack you already run — classic engineering, AI extraction, or low-code, chosen per component. Working prototype in 14 days.
A Full-Service Process for EDI Integration
EDI integration services connect your ERP to your trading partners X12 or EDIFACT documents — here is how a custom build runs.
Step 1
Partner & Spec Review
We collect every trading-partner spec you are held to — 850, 810, 856, 997 — and map them against what your ERP actually accepts. You leave the session with a document-by-document gap list, not a discovery deck.
Step 2
14-Day Prototype
One document type, end to end, on your real partner data — inbound 850 parsed, validated, and written into your ERP with a 997 back. Not a demo: the same architecture we harden for production, the same approach we use on every AI MVP build.
Step 3
Mapping & Exceptions
Maps for every partner and document, plus the exception queue that decides whether EDI works: rejected 997s, price and UOM mismatches, ASN timing failures. Routed to a person with the reason attached, not dumped in a log file nobody reads.
Step 4
Go-Live & Handover
We onboard partners in waves, starting with your highest-volume account, and watch live traffic before the next wave goes on. You receive the repository, the maps, the runbooks, and a monitoring dashboard — the same handover discipline behind our AI automation consulting engagements.
Proof Before
the Full Build
Before you sign for a full rollout, you see one real document flow end to end on your own partner data. If the extraction, the mapping, or the ERP write-back does not hold up, you find out in week two — for the price of a prototype, not a program.
The Closest Work We Have Published
We have not published an EDI case study yet. The nearest published work is the same discipline on the same kind of data: a procurement RFP pipeline that cut evaluation from 28 days to 72 hours on a $72,000 build, and a self-healing retail data pipeline that held 12% of margin.
Every EDI pipeline runs inside your own cloud perimeter. Purchase orders, pricing, and customer addresses never leave it, and nothing you send through it trains a public model.
You own the repository, the maps, and the connectors. There is no per-document fee, no per-partner seat, and no platform holding your trading-partner relationships hostage if you decide to bring EDI in-house.
No junior bench learning X12 on your account. An integration specialist, an AI/ML engineer, and a solutions architect stay on the build from the spec review through partner go-live.
Adding partner number forty costs a fraction of partner number one, because the parsing, validation, and exception layers already exist. The same engine extends to invoices, remittances, and order acknowledgements.
EDI Integration Cost & Packages
Rapid Prototype
$12,000+
One document type with one trading partner, built and proven on your real data in about two weeks. Right if a retailer just handed you an EDI mandate and you need to know what a real build costs before committing budget.
What's included?
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Spec Review: one session mapping your partner’s guidelines against your ERP fields
Prototype Build: one inbound document parsed, validated, and written to your ERP
Stack Setup: Python and FastAPI foundation ready to extend into production
Findings Report: measured accuracy, gap list, and the fastest path to production
Production Build
$28,000+
A production EDI flow for one partner across your core document set, deployed with monitoring and a working exception queue. This is the tier most suppliers choose when one large retailer accounts for most of their order volume.
What's included?
Document Set: 850, 855, 856, 810 and 997 mapped both directions
ERP Write-Back: direct API integration with NetSuite, SAP, or QuickBooks
Exception Queue: rejects grouped by cause, aged, and routed to an owner
Security & Monitoring: private-cloud deployment with alerting on failed transmissions
Multi-Partner Build
$55,000+
Multi-partner EDI across your whole trading network, with AS2 and SFTP transport, a partner-onboarding workflow, and connections into more than one system of record. For distributors and manufacturers where EDI volume is the business.
What's included?
Partner Onboarding: a repeatable workflow your team runs without engineering help
Multi-System Integration: ERP, WMS, and e-commerce platforms connected to one pipeline
Compliance: SOC2/GDPR-aligned deployment with a full transaction audit trail
Team Training: runbooks and hands-on onboarding so your team operates it
Why Choose Building Agentic?
You could rent a VAN, brief an offshore team, or stitch together three contractors — or work with one accountable team that owns EDI end to end.
Right Tool Per
Component
Classic engineering for transport and audit, AI extraction for documents no template fits, low-code for the exception queue your team lives in.
One Accountable
Team
One solutions architect and integration specialist own your EDI build from spec review to partner go-live, with no handoffs between disconnected vendors.
No Per-Document Billing
You pay once to build it, then for hosting — not a kilocharacter fee that grows every time your order volume does.
Integration Is the Project
The ERP write-back that most EDI projects treat as an afterthought is where we start, because it is where they usually fail.
Industries We Build EDI For
EDI shows up wherever a larger partner sets the rules. These are the operations where we already run production systems, and where an EDI layer usually pays for itself fastest.
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