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Avnet makes doing business easy. Partner with Avnet to automate your business transactions through electronic methods, including Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Cut costs, reduce errors and delays, and achieve an entirely new level of efficiency from forecast and order to payment and remittance.

What is EDI?Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is the standardized transmission of data between organizations electronically. It’s a way you can communicate with Avnet directly from your system to ours. Customers worldwide realize such benefits from EDI as reduced cost, fewer errors and decreased processing delays. In fact, EDI orders can cost as little as $1 or less.*

How Can I Automate without EDI?Many customers do not have the capability to engage with Avnet via EDI. We have a solution! Avnet has the ability to convert most Excel and Text files for transactions like forecasts or orders and transmit the data through the EDI gateway for you. Customers can then realize the same benefits as with true EDI transactions, such as reducing costs, fewer errors, and decreased delays.

Some email transaction methods containing the same type of information standard in EDI transactions are also available to suit a wide-array of customer needs.

Contact your Avnet salesperson about our capabilities in these areas today!

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FORECASTING | ORDERING | MAINTENANCE | STATUS

INVOICING | PAYMENT | REMITTANCE

FORECAST / ORDERYou can immediately take advantage of paperless order management and accelerate your ordering process. We can even set-up specifi c ordering parameters, enabling your salesperson to automate the booking process for even greater effi ciency. Don’t have EDI? Avnet may be able to convert your forecast and purchase order fi les from Excel or Text format into a pseudo EDI format that enables us to automatically receive, reformat and push your orders through Avnet’s EDI gateway.

• Forecast (EDI830)• Forecast with Embedded Release (EDI830E)• Purchase Order Management (EDI850)

ORDER MAINTENANCE / ORDER STATUSWe also help make your job easier by providing fast, automated responses to your questions.

Purchase Order Acknowledgements: Did you receive my order?Receive automated acknowledgement that your order has been received via an EDI-generated Purchase Order Acknowledgement (POA) (EDI855). If you don’t use EDI, you can still receive automated POAs via Avnet’s Customer Relationship Management system.

Purchase Order Management: Did you receive my order change?Transmit your Purchase Order Change Request (EDI860) and receive an automated acknowledgement of Receipt of Order Changes (EDI865). If you don’t have EDI, you can still receive automated POAs via email.

Advanced Ship Notice: Did my parts ship?Set up an Advanced Ship Notifi cation (EDI856) and automatically receive notifi cation of shipments with a detailed waybill. If you don’t use EDI, your Avnet salesperson can set up your account so you automatically receive email alerts when your orders ship.

To trade electronic transactions with Avnet in the forecasting and ordering portion of your business or for more information, contact your Avnet salesperson.

INVOICE / PAY / REMITSave time and paper by receiving Electronic Invoices (EDI810) routed directly into your business system, and confi rm your acceptance of invoices just as easily with EDI-generated Application Advice (EDI824).

Avnet customers without EDI capabilities can enjoy easy invoicing as well, via Avnet eBill. With eBill your invoices are emailed to you once your product has shipped. You can choose to receive each eBill separately, in a single fi le with up to 100 individual invoices, or as a PDF containing all invoices from that day’s shipments.

It’s easy to make payments with Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), via Automated Clearing House (ACH) or wire. Pair an EDI-generated Remittance (EDI820) with your ACH to specify how to apply your payment.

ADDITIONAL EDI TRANSACTIONSAvnet Electronics Marketing offers an extensive list of EDI transactions, in addition to those noted above. Some others are:

• Shipping Schedule (EDI862)• Warehouse Shipping Order (EDI940)• Warehouse Stock Transfer (EDI943)• Warehouse Stock Transfer Shipment Advice (EDI944)• Warehouse Shipping Advice (EDI945)

To trade electronic transactions in the accounting portion of your business or for more information, contact your Avnet salesperson.

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