Vitamin Shoppe Joins Direct EDI’s Supply Chain Community Connecting With 1,000’s of Retailers and Manufacturers!

Direct EDI, a leading provider of EDI services and solutions located in San Diego, CA, today announced that Vitamin Shoppes is now available for EDI connectivity through Direct EDI’s Web EDI system. Vendors looking for easy and affordable Web EDI and excellent customer service can contact Direct EDI for immediate set up on the Web EDI system.

The following features are included with a Web EDI service free of charge:

• Email notification for incoming documents.
  
• Printer friendly Excel versions of Purchase Orders.
  
• All optional EDI transactions for sales reporting, inventory levels, etc.
  
• On demand invoice summary report.
  
• Storage and archiving of all EDI documents.
  

Vitamin Shoppe requires the following documents be sent via EDI:

• 810 Invoice
  
• 850 Purchase Order
  
• 855 Purchase Order Acknowledgment
  
• 856 Advance Ship Notice
  
• 860 Purchase Order Change Request
  

Direct EDI’s Supply Chain Community provides EDI services and EDI software solutions for thousands of retailers, manufacturers, and service providers via Web EDI, EDI Integration, Outsourced EDI, Automated EDI Testing software, and EDI enablements.

Contact Direct EDI, Inc. today and we''ll take care of the rest. (858) 751-2626 x 1.

sales@directedi.com
(858) 751-2626 ext. 1

Media contact
Jennifer Jansen
(858) 751-2626 ext. 535

In-House EDI Part 1: New Tools To Accelerate On Boarding Your EDI Vendors

Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT

Finally! The right tools to get your EDI job done - faster! For the first time ever, you will see what all the buzz is about - Automated EDI Testing by Direct EDI. This can't miss webinar is designed just for larger retailers, grocers and manufacturers who want to keep in-house control of their EDI testing.

You'll experience first-hand how this tool can dramatically decrease the time and communications required for testing and significantly increase your accuracy.

About the guest speaker:
Eric Linxwiler has implemented EDI enablement solutions, both in-house and outsourced, for large organizations across the US and Canada. His dynamic personality brings to life online demonstrations while deep industry expertise provides insights and trends across EDI and supply chain. Eric is the Director of Sales with Direct EDI.

Sign up for this free 30-minute presentation and 15-minute open Q&A webinar now.

Who's Minding the Store? The importance of Vendor Management...

James Lewis, former JC Penney buyer, and CEO & Founder Enhanced Retail Solutions, highlights a growing trend spurred by Wal-Mart’s approach to vendor participation in analyzing and acting on retail sell through information. See how EDI 852 POS data can be transformed into useful sales information that was previously unattainable to large and small vendors. Jim is a former JC Penney buyer. He managed or bought key categories in Men's, Children's and Home Textiles throughout his 15 year career. Jim has been featured in Apparel, Home Textiles and Licensing publications and has conducted seminars at industry associations and trade shows including MAGIC. Jim was recently honored to conduct a seminar at his alma mater, The University of Florida, at the Miller Center for Retailing.

Watch the Webinar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvRfz4QW0sc