Most apparel brands pay SPS Commerce, TrueCommerce or OpenText thousands a year for what Sync includes natively. EDI lives inside the same system that runs your orders - set up, mapped and transmitted by our team, not a connector vendor you don't control.
Traditional EDI routes every order through a paid third party - per-KC fees, per trading partner, and surprise overage bills when peak season hits. Sync builds EDI into the ERP, so retailers trade directly with the system that already runs your business.
From PO to ASN to invoice, it’s all built in - and our team maps each new trading partner to their exact spec. No connector to buy, nothing to bolt on.
Most EDI conversations start and end with the retailer connection. In practice, EDI in manufacturing runs in both directions. On the selling side, your brand is the vendor: the retailer's 850 purchase order arrives electronically, your 856 advance ship notice announces every carton before it lands, the 810 invoice follows the shipment, and an 846 inventory feed keeps dropship and marketplace programs stocked with live availability. On the supply side, the same discipline reaches toward your factories and logistics partners: purchase orders, shipment notifications and receipts moving as structured data instead of emailed PDFs and rekeyed spreadsheets.
The reason EDI matters more in apparel manufacturing than in most industries is the shape of the data. A single 850 for one style can carry a full size run across multiple colorways, store-level distributions and prepack instructions. Translated by generic middleware into flat rows, that structure is where chargebacks are born. Handled natively by a system that already thinks in styles, colors, sizes and prepacks, the order books itself, the warehouse picks against it, and the ASN describes exactly what the cartons contain.
Sync includes the full retailer document set natively, and because the EDI layer and the ERP are the same system, the 846 inventory position it publishes is the live position, not last night's export.
Drop SPS, TrueCommerce and VAN fees - native EDI costs less, with no surprise overage bills.
Compliant ASNs, UCC-128 labels and invoices generated to each retailer's exact spec.
New trading-partner maps are configuration, not a six-month integration project.
iSync sets up, maps and supports your EDI end to end - no finger-pointing between vendors.
Tell us who you need to trade with and we'll show you Sync exchanging live documents - no middleware, no per-partner fees.
Independent, editorial guides for teams onboarding to EDI or moving between middleware and native ERP models.