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Automate EDI and B2B Data Exchange Workflows with Stedi
Connect Stedi's cloud EDI platform to your entire stack and stop managing trading partners by hand.
What can you do with the Stedi connector?
Stedi is an API-first EDI platform that replaces legacy EDI infrastructure with developer-friendly tools for exchanging X12 transactions with trading partners. Integrating Stedi with tray.ai lets you build end-to-end supply chain automation—routing purchase orders, invoices, and shipment notices directly into your ERP, WMS, or order management system without manual intervention. Whether you're onboarding new trading partners or processing thousands of daily EDI transactions, tray.ai keeps your B2B data flows connected, reliable, and auditable.
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Use case
Automated Inbound EDI Order Processing
When Stedi receives an EDI 850 Purchase Order from a trading partner, tray.ai can instantly parse the transaction, validate required fields, and create a corresponding order record in your ERP or OMS. No manual re-keying of order data, and every inbound PO gets acted on within seconds of receipt.
- Zero manual data entry for inbound purchase orders
- Faster order fulfillment by triggering warehouse workflows immediately
- Consistent data validation before records hit your ERP
Use case
Outbound Invoice Generation and EDI Transmission
As soon as an invoice is created or finalized in your billing system, tray.ai can map the invoice data to an EDI 810 transaction and submit it through Stedi to the right trading partner. The billing loop closes automatically, and faster invoice delivery means less time waiting on payment.
- Automatic EDI 810 invoice dispatch tied to billing system events
- Reduced DSO through faster, error-free invoice transmission
- Full audit trail linking internal invoices to outbound EDI transactions
Use case
Advance Ship Notice Automation
When a shipment is confirmed or a tracking number is assigned in your WMS or shipping platform, tray.ai can generate and send an EDI 856 Advance Ship Notice through Stedi in real time. Trading partners stay informed, and you avoid the chargeback penalties that come with late or missing 856 notices.
- Automatic ASN dispatch upon shipment confirmation
- Avoids costly chargebacks from late or missing 856 notices
- Real-time shipment visibility for trading partners
Use case
Trading Partner Onboarding Workflow Orchestration
Onboarding a new trading partner means coordinating ISA/GS configuration, testing transaction sets, and validating acknowledgment workflows. tray.ai can orchestrate this multi-step process—creating partner profiles in Stedi, notifying internal teams via Slack or email, and tracking onboarding status in a project management tool—so nothing gets missed.
- Structured, repeatable onboarding process for every new partner
- Automated status updates to internal stakeholders
- Faster time-to-live for new trading relationships
Use case
Functional Acknowledgment Monitoring and Alerting
Missing or rejected EDI 997/999 functional acknowledgments can signal serious transaction failures that hold up payments and shipments. tray.ai can monitor Stedi for acknowledgment statuses and trigger alerts to your operations team via PagerDuty, Slack, or email whenever a transaction goes unacknowledged or gets rejected by a trading partner.
- Proactive alerting before transaction failures cascade into business disruptions
- Reduced mean time to resolution for EDI errors
- Complete visibility into acknowledgment status across all partners
Use case
EDI Transaction Data Sync to Data Warehouse
EDI transaction data—volumes, error rates, partner activity, transaction types—is useful for supply chain analytics but rarely makes it into reporting systems. tray.ai can stream Stedi transaction events into Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift, giving your analytics team a full picture of B2B data exchange performance.
- Centralized EDI analytics alongside other operational data
- Track partner reliability, error rates, and transaction volumes over time
- Supports chargebacks, disputes, and compliance reporting
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Look Up Trading Partner Profiles
Data SourceRetrieve configuration details for EDI trading partners, including interchange settings, ISA identifiers, and partnership agreements. An agent can use this to validate partner configurations before initiating transactions.
Fetch Transaction Set Details
Data SourcePull specific EDI transaction sets such as 850 purchase orders, 856 advance ship notices, or 810 invoices for downstream processing. An agent can parse and route these documents to the appropriate business workflows.
Monitor EDI Transaction Status
Data SourceQuery the status of inbound and outbound EDI transactions to identify failures, acknowledgment states, or pending items. An agent can surface issues proactively and trigger remediation steps.
Retrieve Interchange and Functional Acknowledgments
Data SourceFetch 997 or 999 functional acknowledgments to confirm whether trading partners have accepted or rejected submitted documents. An agent can flag unacknowledged transactions and escalate as needed.
List Available EDI Guides
Data SourceAccess Stedi's library of EDI guides and transaction specifications configured for a given trading partner. An agent can reference these guides to validate document structure before sending.
Translate EDI to JSON
Agent ToolSubmit raw EDI files to Stedi for translation into structured JSON. An agent can drop this into an ingestion pipeline so modern applications can work with the data without touching raw EDI.
Translate JSON to EDI
Agent ToolConvert structured JSON payloads into compliant EDI documents formatted for a specific trading partner and transaction type. An agent can run this as the last step before a document goes out the door.
Send Outbound EDI Documents
Agent ToolTransmit EDI documents directly to trading partners via Stedi's network. An agent can own the full process from document creation to delivery, whether that's a purchase order, invoice, or ship notice.
Generate Functional Acknowledgments
Agent ToolCreate and send 997 or 999 acknowledgment documents in response to inbound EDI transactions. An agent can take acknowledgment generation off your plate entirely, keeping partners happy without manual work.
Create or Update Trading Partner Configurations
Agent ToolAdd new trading partners or update existing settings like ISA qualifiers, delimiters, and envelope configurations in Stedi. Useful for agents handling onboarding workflows where partner profiles need to be provisioned without manual setup.
Validate EDI Documents
Agent ToolSubmit EDI documents to Stedi for structural and compliance validation against a configured guide before transmission. An agent can catch formatting errors or missing segments early and avoid the back-and-forth that comes with partner rejections.
Trigger Stedi Workflows
Agent ToolKick off EDI processing workflows in Stedi when something happens upstream, like a new order or a shipment update. An agent can use this to keep EDI flows in sync with what's actually happening in your internal systems.
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Challenges Tray.ai solves
Common obstacles when integrating Stedi — and how Tray.ai handles them.
Challenge
Translating Between EDI X12 and Modern API Data Formats
EDI X12 documents use highly structured, positional formats that look nothing like the JSON payloads modern SaaS applications expect. Teams end up writing custom translation logic every time they connect a new system to their EDI workflow—and that code is expensive to build and a pain to maintain.
How Tray.ai helps
tray.ai's data mapping tools let you visually transform Stedi's parsed JSON transaction models—already normalized from raw X12—into whatever schema your downstream system requires. You can build reusable mapping logic and update it without engineering involvement when trading partner requirements change.
Challenge
Managing Per-Partner Routing Logic at Scale
Different trading partners send different transaction sets, use different segment qualifiers, and expect responses on different timelines. Hard-coding per-partner logic into a single integration works fine for two or three partners. Past that, it becomes a maintenance nightmare.
How Tray.ai helps
tray.ai supports dynamic, data-driven routing using conditional logic and lookup tables. You can keep trading partner configuration in a spreadsheet or database and reference it at runtime, so your workflows automatically adapt to each partner's requirements without duplicating workflows.
Challenge
Handling EDI Errors and Exceptions Without Manual Monitoring
EDI failures—malformed transactions, missing acknowledgments, rejected segments—often go undetected until a partner calls to complain. By that point, your team is already hours behind on an issue that could have been caught in minutes.
How Tray.ai helps
tray.ai lets you build dedicated error-handling branches in your Stedi workflows that catch API errors, parse Stedi rejection details, and immediately route issues to the right team via PagerDuty, Slack, or a ticketing system. Every exception is logged and actionable, not silently swallowed.
Stedi EDI 850 to NetSuite Sales Order
Stedi 
NetSuite 
Slack Automatically creates a NetSuite Sales Order whenever Stedi receives an inbound EDI 850 Purchase Order, mapping all line items, quantities, and partner identifiers.
Shipment Confirmation to EDI 856 ASN via Stedi
Stedi 
Shopify 
Google Sheets Monitors your WMS or Shopify store for fulfilled shipments and automatically generates and transmits an EDI 856 Advance Ship Notice through Stedi to the relevant trading partner.
EDI 997 Acknowledgment Alert Pipeline
Stedi Slack Polls Stedi for functional acknowledgment statuses and sends immediate alerts to PagerDuty or Slack when transactions are rejected or remain unacknowledged beyond a configured threshold.
Stedi Transaction Events to Snowflake EDI Analytics
Stedi 
Snowflake Streams all inbound and outbound EDI transaction events from Stedi into a Snowflake data warehouse table for supply chain reporting and partner performance analysis.
New Trading Partner Onboarding Orchestration
Stedi 
Jira Slack 
Gmail Orchestrates end-to-end onboarding of a new EDI trading partner—from creating the partner profile in Stedi to notifying internal teams and tracking progress in Jira.
ERP Invoice to EDI 810 Transmission
Stedi NetSuite Slack Watches for finalized invoices in your ERP and automatically maps and transmits them as EDI 810 transactions through Stedi to the correct trading partner.
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