Inter-organization document management

KORUS Consulting has now for 5 years been a certified provider of services of electronic documents interchange – EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) on ECOD and SFERA platforms.

ECOD platform is designed by ComArch. ECOD-Operator − a Polish partner of KORUS Consulting. This is a complex solution of EDI class, used for automated interchange of information and documents (such as orders, invoices, sales reports) processed according to general standards of electronic documents.

At present there exist 26 retail networks in Russia which interchange over 700 thousand electronic documents per month engaging ECOD-Operator platform.

There exist several versions of ECOD-Operator, which are implemented according to customer’s requirements: from a simple version, only requiring a computer and an Internet access to enable sending electronic documents, to a version, in which ECOD platform is integrated into information systems of the customer enterprise.

SFEA platform is designed by KORUS Consulting on the base of products by Oracle DB, BPEL etc. Since 2008 KORUS Consulting has been developing its own EDI platform for local projects fulfilled in Russian Federation. This solution is applied to automate document management in the following directions: business-to-business (for example, retail networks and their vendors), business-to-government (for example, tax accounts submission to IFTS –Federal Tax Inspection), business-to-customer (for example, portal solution for clients) etc.

Solution advantages:

• Confidentiality maintained;
• Reliability ensured – it is impossible to alter a document without the sender’s knowledge;
• Delivery guarantied – the system automatically informs the sender about document delivery;
• Efficiency – document processing and transfer within a period of 15 seconds;
• Accuracy – automatic notification about any mistakes committed;
• Economy –EDI implementation allows to reduce expenses related to document processing at 7-10% from transaction total cost;
• IT-compatibility –electronic interchange of commercial documents is most advantageous when customer’s accounting system is integrated with EDI;
• Built-in digital signature algorithms (legal significance and data encryption).