How EDI builds a car, a truck and a rocket
Each story follows one product from the first purchase order to the last payment. Every forecast, ship notice, sequence and invoice travels through Comparatio, and you can stop at any moment to open the document and read what is inside.
- Under five minutes each
- Open any X12, EDIFACT or JSON document
- Desktop and phone
Pick a story
Three products, three supply chains
How EDI builds an electric car
A web order, a 500-car fleet order and a PDF purchase order become one crossover: battery cells by sea, drive units from Germany, a sequenced line and a paid invoice.
How EDI builds a heavy truck
A fleet orders 120 sleeper tractors, then moves 40 of them to mountain routes. Frame rails come by rail, axles in sequence and transmissions by sea, until the trucks drive to their owners.
How EDI builds a rocket
A satellite operator books a launch. Long-lead tanks and engines, a quality hold caught at receiving and late avionics pulled forward, all the way to liftoff and the milestone payment.
What you will see
EDI the way your partners live it
Every document, in order
Forecasts (830), purchase orders (850), ship notices (856), sequences (866), invoices (810) and payments (820), each sent at the moment it happens.
Open any message
Click a document in the transmission log to see it as X12, EDIFACT or JSON, with a note on what every segment means.
PDFs become EDI
Partners without EDI email PDFs. Comparatio PDF Import reads them into the same documents everyone else sends.
Errors stop at the hub
A document that fails validation stops in red, goes back to the sender with an 824 or 842, and returns corrected.
One hub, every partner
Suppliers, carriers, railroads, 3PLs, customers and banks, each on its own standard and connection, all through one Comparatio hub.
Play it your way
Pause with the space bar, jump between chapters with the arrow keys, or drag the scene to look around.
What would this look like with your trading partners?
Bring your partner list and the documents you exchange today, and we’ll talk through how they would run through Comparatio.