Setting up EDI requires technical skills which are not always available in small and medium-sized businesses.

SERES has developed Allegro-EFI, the first operational Web EDI in France. Allegro-EFI is an easy-to-use solution. It enables you to meet the requirements of users wishing to set up an electronic data interchange system, regardless of their size, the volume of their flows or the technical skills available in-house.

Allegro-EFI (Electronic Forms Interchange) gives access to a web portal allowing you to enter and send, receive and display EDI messages in legible format right from your internet browser. Its advantage is the possibility of printing out or downloading data to integrate them in your sales management software. Information may be immediately fed back in EDI format to all your partners exchanging data in this format.

Allegro-EFI comes with a highly secured infrastructure (message coding using SSL technology and authentification) and allows you to track your interchanges, including the date and time of status. This solution is quick to roll out and only requires a simple internet browser.

The service is available 24-7.

Benefit from all the advantages

• No initial outlay: access via a simple internet connection and a standard browser;
• Transparency for your partners: whether you are equipped with an EDI solution or a Web EDI solution, it makes no difference to them;
• Secured interchanges you can track: coding, secure internet access using authentification, message traceability including date and time of status, etc.;
• A secure platform, developed and hosted by SERES, expert in electronic interchanges for over 20 years;
• Simple, adapted pricing.

Technically speaking

Traceability module: As an option, Seres offers a traceability module meeting the requirements of players in the food processing sector who have to provide the various authorities with information on product traceability (supplier identification, batches, etc.)

The Allegro-EFI service can be used to generate “traceability” shipping notes and to print out labels identifying any “shipping unit”.

Print-out/automatic import: Allegro-EFI lets you import data from all orders into your sales management software, thus doing away with the need for manual data entry. This solution also enables you to print out messages.

Personalised database : Allegro-EFI provides you with 2 databases - a product database and a partner database. The product database is used to manage correspondence between your product’s EAN code, its description and any internal code used. The partner database is used to manage correspondence between the place codes used for partners and their full addresses. You also have a private space for creation, modification and consultation.