A new supplier means new orders and new goods. And also a new, often different way of communicating. How about not drowning in the mess of fragmented communication with individual suppliers?
One supplier sends you order confirmations by email. Another via their own portal. A third in PDF format. A fourth requires a specific process. And a fifth sends a change in delivery date as an email attachment that someone has to manually retype into the system.
When a retail company has ten suppliers, it can still be managed. But when it grows and suddenly has one hundred or five hundred suppliers, it becomes an urgent problem.
As a company grows, not only does the volume of business grow
Most retail companies expect that the number of orders, inventory movements, or customers will increase with growth.
But they less often realize that the volume of supplier communication is growing just as rapidly.
Orders. Order confirmations. Changes to dates. Delivery notes. Invoices. Complaints. Exceptions. Each new supplier brings another line of communication and additional rules that the customer must respect.
The result is an environment where employees spend more and more time coordinating, tracking, and controlling instead of doing work that actually moves the company forward.
Ad hoc coordination cannot be scaled
Many retail companies have been operating for a long time thanks to experienced people who "know how it works."
They know which supplier to call, where to look for an order confirmation, or what format a particular partner uses.
But as a company grows, the various specifics and exceptions become too many. The company is not actually scaling the process, it is just increasing the amount of human work. This can only work up to a certain size, but then it inevitably becomes a brake on further, smooth growth.
ORiON EDI will provide retail with the infrastructure it needs
Successful retail companies today are not just dealing with the automation of individual documents. They are solving a way to unify communication across hundreds of suppliers.
This is exactly what GRiT helps with through ORiON EDI - a comprehensive service for effective electronic data exchange. Instead of dozens of different communication channels, formats and rules, a unified infrastructure is created that allows you to communicate with suppliers in a standardized, automated and large-scale manner.
The result is less administration, but above all the ability to grow without increasing the complexity of the entire supply chain with each new supplier.
It is no coincidence that this approach is used by successful companies such as Rohlík.cz , Alza.cz , HP TRONIC or PRO-DOMA . Get inspired and join them. Contact us and together we will find the best solution for you for seamless retail growth.
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