What does EDI mean? 

 
EDI stands for Electronic Data Interchange. It allows businesses to communicate in a standard and predictable format. There are a number of standards such X12, EDI Fact, and more. 

In e-commerce and general retail, suppliers and retailers will communicate purchase orders, fulfilment information (advance ship notices), invoices, pricing changes, inventory updates, acknowledgements for purchase orders, order changes from the retailer, and order changes from supplier. 

Hendricks is a tool that acts as a modern translation layer between your e-commerce systems and EDI. This saves you from having to speak the language of EDI.