More and more customers want their suppliers to have the ability to reliably exchange EDI documents. They are under pressure to reduce their procurement process costs by automating manual processes such as invoice data entry.

Because EDI is so efficient, many companies require their business partners to be EDI capable as a condition for doing business.

Suppliers want to develop closer customer relationships. They want to make themselves less expensive to buy from by reducing the administrative burden on their customers.

There is a continuing need for most businesses to increase efficiency. Suppliers are finding they can reduce costs by automating B2B (business-to-business) processes with EDI. Money is saved through improving the speed and accuracy of electronic documents they exchange with their customers.