KIBO's EDI Platform: The Foundation for Dropship, Marketplace & Procurement

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Using KIBO’s EDI platform, KIBO’s clients can build integrations to support any EDI message with their trading partners, whether that ultimately be for procurement, dropship, or marketplace uses.

All standard message types, for example 832, 846, 850, 855, 856, and 810, can be built and tested as well as custom message types and even financial reconciliation.

This means that, from the perspective of a retailer as an example, this platform can be used for everything from receiving product information and inventory updates from a supplier, to sending a purchase order to a supplier and receiving fulfillment information on that purchase order from the supplier.

This is the admin for the EDI platform, which KIBO Professional Services or an SI would use to build, test, and manage EDI integrations for one of KIBO’s clients.

Just to quickly show you how one would do that, if we click on the guidelines tab, this is where we would build EDI specs for the EDI leader.

If we click on create new, we can define the guideline. As you can see, we can name the guideline, choose the EDI account, which will be one of KIBO’s clients EDI accounts, and choose the transaction type. As an example, I’ll choose the eight thirty two, which is the pricesales catalog transaction, which KIBO’s retail clients would use to receive product information from one of their suppliersvendors.

Next, I’ll select version zero point zero point four point zero one zero, which is in the X12 format, and then I can further build the structure of the call.

You’ll notice that some of the fields are pre chosen and are locked because those are required for this version of the call. Next, I can further build out the structure of the message by selecting any other fields. You’ll notice that I could also upload a PDF of a guideline, and the platform would then read the file and build the message from that, instead of manually building the message as I’ve shown you. If I hit create guideline, the guideline will be created, and then I could save as a draft or publish it.

Once these guidelines are published, the KIBO professional services team works with each trading partner in testing and certifying the EDI integration through this admin interface, which features real time error messages and many tools for remediating data to adhere to the leader’s guidelines for each transaction type.

Let’s discuss drop shipping. Merchandisers or supply chain managers gain immediate insight into product performance through an intuitive dashboard, segmented by active, pending, draft, and rejected statuses.

The KIBO Portal gives clients and their vendors control over the fulfillment network. Vendors can manage their own locations, and clients can easily manage, add, and export locations for all of their vendors.

These locations become powerful inputs for inventory availability and order routing rules within KIBO, while also considering vendor locations.

This is a critical advantage. All vendor data product catalog, promotions, locations, and inventory is augmented by the same powerful platform capabilities that apply to client first party data.

Clients get instant clarity on all orders and their up to the minute statuses. They can onboard new vendors with ease and maintain a constant pulse on their business’s health, quickly identifying where to diversify vendors or expand into new areas.

Let’s explore KIBO Marketplace. From this dashboard, clients quickly see their marketplaces driving new business.

Here, Mystic Sports leveraged the marketplace to reinvigorate their product line, introducing niche climbing gear in adjacent categories like performance snacks.

Marketplace operators can easily add their own products, either manually or through bulk importexport and even spreadsheets for small suppliers.

Operators can add their fulfillment locations, enabling direct order routing to their warehouses.

KIBO’s sophisticated order routing system means suppliers immediately benefit from the robust performance KIBO Commerce offers, just as it does for Mystic Sports.

This brings advanced commerce functionality directly to all marketplace operators, offering a compelling reason for suppliers to join and thrive on the platform. Suppliers monitor their incoming orders and wrap up onboarding through a guided wizard.

Reports clearly show the immense value this partnership brings.