Web Site
Tech Data's Web site offers a complete product catalog with Quick Search and Advanced Search options, detailed technical specifications, real-time warehouse availability (includes ETA dates for stock in transit), customer-specific pricing (based on your volume or contract), real-time online ordering, real-time online order inquiry, and a host of other features designed to increase your productivity and make working with Tech Data a seamless part of your business.
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XML
(eXtensible Markup Language)
Like Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), XML enables the automatic handling of information between your data systems and Tech Data. The method is different, however, and does not require a high volume of transactions to be economical.
XML uses TCP/IP integration over an Internet connection to transfer information between Tech Data and your system.
This in-house integration of data can require significant technical expertise from your staff. Properly set up, however, XML is inexpensive to operate and effectively streamlines your business processes.
Transactions available through XML currently include:
- Real-time Availability
- Real-time Price & Availability
- Order Submit
- Order Status / Invoice Detail
- Includes Serial Numbers and Carrier Tracking Numbers (where applicable)
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Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a proven, highly structured method of business communication that enables information to be processed continuously and automatically by both sender and receiver. This automation can decrease operating costs, speed delivery, and improve both cash flow and inventory control, but to be efficient, an EDI relationship must support a very large volume of business between the trading partners involved.
The accuracy of this well-established method of business communication is based on meticulous agreement over the precise nature, form, and sequence of the data. Tech Data uses standards defined by the American National Standards Institute, Accredited Subcommittee X12 (ANSI ASC X12) and the Computer Technology Industry Association (CompTIA).
An overview of Tech Data's EDI offering.
As an incentive for using this method of communication, Tech Data pays the ground freight charge on all EDI orders that meet specific requirements. Contact your Tech Data sales representative for details.
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