Federated Selects GCommerce for EDI Connectivity with Members, Vendors - aftermarketNews

Federated Selects GCommerce for EDI Connectivity with Members, Vendors

Federated and GCommerce will be working closely with their business system providers to enable integrated document exchange for Federated members.

STAUNTON, Va. – Federated Auto Parts and GCommerce will be working together to facilitate electronic document exchange between Federated members and vendors to automate purchase orders, acknowledgements, ship notices and invoices.

“Federated is committed to improving efficiencies for our members and vendors, and the industry at-large,” said Rusty Bishop, CEO of Federated Auto Parts. “We believe automating two-way document exchange provides the most significant opportunity to eliminate both costly manual processes and errors within the supply chain, and that GCommerce is the best method to accomplish these goals.”

Federated members run on a variety of business system platforms including Activant, Autologue, DMS, DST, Icas, MAM Software, MindQuest, NexJen and WHI. Federated and GCommerce will be working closely with their business system providers to enable integrated document exchange for Federated members. Federated will support established industry standards, including the GCommerce Super Spec.

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