EDI for the industries distributors sell to and buy from
Our customers trade with vehicle makers, retailers, hospitals, grocery chains, contractors and the manufacturers behind them. Most of those partners are already in our map library, so a new connection starts from a proven map.
- 1,000+ pre-built maps
- X12, EDIFACT and cXML
- Maps run by our engineers
- 170+
- Customers
- Nearly 8,000
- Live partner connections
- 1,000+
- Pre-built trading-partner maps
- 100M+
- Transactions processed to date
Industry pages
Pick your industry
Each page lists the documents that industry’s partners send, what happens to them in your ERP, and the partners already in our map library.
Manufacturing
76 vehicle and equipment OEM maps
Suppliers to automotive, heavy-truck and equipment makers: 830 and 862 schedules, EDIFACT DELFOR and DESADV, plant-level IDs.
Distribution
87 distributor maps, 355 supplier maps
Both sides of a wholesale distributor’s EDI: customer orders in, purchase orders out to suppliers, and their replies posted to the ERP.
Retail
89 retail maps, 31 home improvement maps
Big-box stores, marketplaces, home centers and farm & ranch chains, including drop-ship programs and GS1 carton labels.
Food & Beverage
39 grocery, foodservice and CPG maps
Grocery chains, foodservice distributors and consumer-goods buyers, including 875 grocery purchase orders.
Healthcare supply
60 healthcare maps, 8 healthcare networks
Medical, lab and dental supply: orders, ship notices and invoices with hospitals, distributors and networks such as GHX and DSSI.
Construction supply
58 plumbing & HVAC and 45 electrical supplier maps
Plumbing, HVAC, electrical and building-material distributors: supplier POs out, customer orders in, contractor networks.
3PL
940 · 945 · 943 · 944 · 846
Warehouse orders, shipping advices, stock transfers and inventory between distributors, brands and their 3PL warehouses.
Banking
820 remittance
Customer remittances read from 820s and bank formats and applied to open invoices in your ERP.
Map library
Partner maps by industry
The customer-side maps in our library, grouped by the industry of the trading partner. On the buying side, a further 355 supplier maps cover the manufacturers distributors purchase from.
| Partner industry | Maps | Partners include |
|---|---|---|
| Retail, e-commerce and farm & ranch | 89 | Amazon, Walmart, Target, Costco, Wayfair, Tractor Supply |
| Industrial MRO and electrical distributors | 87 | Grainger, Fastenal, MSC, Wesco, Vallen, Zoro |
| Vehicle and equipment OEMs | 76 | PACCAR, Daimler Truck, Volvo, John Deere, Caterpillar, Komatsu |
| Healthcare, pharma and lab | 60 | McKesson, Cardinal Health, Medline, Henry Schein, Fisher Scientific |
| Manufacturers buying from distributors | 52 | Parker Hannifin, Eaton, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Kohler |
| Energy, aerospace, rail and government | 47 | Halliburton, BASF, AES, CSX |
| Grocery, foodservice and consumer goods | 39 | Kroger, HEB, Giant Eagle, McLane, US Foods, PepsiCo |
| Home improvement and hardware | 31 | Home Depot, Lowe’s, Menards, Ace Hardware, True Value, Orgill |
| Office, janitorial and facilities | 27 | Staples, Office Depot, Essendant |
| E-procurement and B2B networks | 38 | SAP Ariba, Coupa, GHX, DSSI, SPS Commerce, TrueCommerce |
| Other industries | 100+ | Partners outside the groups above |
Map counts from the Comparatio map library, 16 October 2026. With the 355 supplier maps on the buying side, the library holds 1,000+ maps. A map means the partner’s format is built; it does not by itself mean the partner is live at every customer.
FAQ
Questions about industries we serve
Who uses Comparatio?
Most of our 170+ customers are distributors, and the platform is built around a distributor’s two sides: the customers it sells to and the suppliers it buys from. Manufacturers and 3PLs that trade the same documents use it too.
What if our trading partner is not in your map library?
We build the map, test it with the partner and run it like every other one. A new trading partner typically goes live in 4–8 weeks, paced mostly by how quickly the partner tests.
The trading-partner networkDo you handle healthcare claims or insurance EDI?
No. Comparatio runs supply-chain EDI: orders, acknowledgments, ship notices, invoices, payments and the documents around them. For healthcare that means medical, lab and dental supply. We don’t process insurance claims, eligibility checks or patient records.
Healthcare supply EDITell us who your trading partners are
Send us your partner list, and we’ll tell you which maps already exist and what a go-live plan looks like.