Automotive EDI and Integration iCARaS can function as a stand-alone system, or easily be integrated with your existing applications.

A strong integration platform along with highly functional applications make for a compelling value proposition. The building blocks for a solid business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce strategy start at the transport layer and extend up the technology stack to workflow and business activity management, as well as the business application itself.  

Radley recognizes that point-to-point integration with trading partners is costly, time consuming, and extremely difficult to scale.  Radley’s iCARaS employs a layer of technology that translates and maps ingoing and outgoing transactions for internal and partner applications.

Our approach: one-to-many data translation and transformation versus the many-to-many model that point-to-point integrations lead to.

Maximizing ROI

Radley provides a standard application program interface (API) that delivers the flexibility today’s business solutions need to make sure that new systems can keep up with changing demands while continuing to support legacy formats for older applications.  Radley has deployed SOA-based solutions that offer configurable workflow—this makes it easier to adapt processing to changing business requirements without time-consuming and costly customization. This not only simplifies and reduces the cost of implementation and maintenance, it ensures all adaptations carry forward through system upgrades, further extending system life and improving return on investment

• Demand Processing — Integrated demand processing is key to eliminating manual data entry errors thus preventing production scheduling delays and shipping errors that are results of a manual process. Customer demand is received, translated and maintained within iCARaS. A standard export function provides the demand data to ERP/MRP for all trading partners in a common file format. A change in EDI specifications by one of your trading partners no longer means a change in your ERP system. iCARaS handles the differences in trading partner formats, so you can focus on running your business. The customer’s orders are exported from iCARaS , and demand data can be updated to a sales order, manufacturing demand, or a forecasting application, based on your company’s internal business practices.

• Automotive Shipping — Shipping can be performed within iCARaS or your application. Shipment transactions within iCARaS can be created from requirements, from a scanning application, imported from the ERP system, or entered manually. Shipment data is captured for shipping documents, labels, and is also used to produce the outbound electronic shipment message.

• Invoicing — The Invoice can be created from shipments, manually entered, or imported from your application. iCARaS is then used build, validate, and transmit the electronic Invoice. If your trading partner pays directly from the ASN, iCARaS will receive your Remittance Advice, which can optionally be applied within the application’s Accounts Receivable module.