EDI Integrations
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) streamlines business-to-business communication by enabling documents to be shared electronically in a standardized format. By replacing methods like email, fax and postal mail, businesses can send essential documents — like invoices, bills of lading, customs forms, and shipping notices — directly to the receiver’s system for immediate processing.
Using EDI saves time, improves response rates and reduces errors, which helps increase efficiency and strengthen business relationships.
EDI Transaction Sets
Each EDI transaction set comes with a unique code that identifies it as a specific type of EDI message. This allows different systems to understand and process the information seamlessly, regardless of industry or geographic location.
ArcBest supports these common EDI transaction sets using ANSI X12 in any version.
| Transactions | Description | Map & Sample Data |
|---|---|---|
| ANSI 204 (Shipment information) | For transmitting bills of lading and load tender information to carrier | |
| ANSI 210 (Freight bills) | For payment and auditing | |
| ANSI 214 (Shipment status) | For tracking, performance monitoring and in-transit shipment information |
Trading Partner Form
ArcBest Technologies requires a Trading Partner Form (TPF) to start the integration process or update your existing integration. The TPF provides our EDI Support Specialist with information vital to the project and contact information from your company’s project partner. After you complete and submit the TPF, we will assign an EDI Support Specialist to work with you to meet your EDI needs.
We also offer API integrations or we can accept XML or JSON per EDI connections.
Get connected
Need help getting started? Email edi@arcb.com to connect with a knowledgeable representative.
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