EDI Integration
A wholesale purchase order lands on a storefront built to sell one item at a time. The question an operations lead asks first is simple: whose price does the order take, the one the partner agreed, or whatever the storefront catalogue happens to show that day. Get that answer wrong once and the order is wrong before anyone in dispatch even sees it.
Most of these trace back to a figure that was never checked against the order the partner actually placed. A fill rate penalty, a short ship, a delivery window miss, an invoice that doesn't match the PO: each one is a symptom, and the commerce engine's order record is where the cause usually sits. Catching the mismatch before the shipment leaves costs less than arguing the deduction after the remittance arrives.
A wholesale account on Commerce Cloud needs its own pricing and terms set up separately from whatever the storefront shows a retail shopper. None of this is complicated on its own. It just has to happen before the first order arrives, not after a partner flags the invoice.
Each one does one job. Miss a step and the gap shows up later as a chargeback or a stalled payment.
The commerce engine owns the order record once it lands. If the wholesale account's terms aren't attached to that record, the order prices against whatever the storefront catalogue is showing.
A storefront rebuild or a second front end running against the same engine doesn't change which order record the ASN gets built from. The figure still has to come from the commerce engine, not the front end.
Because the storefront is a client and not the system of record, the advice has to be pulled from wherever the commerce engine actually holds the figure.
This is the document that exposes a pricing mapping that was never done. If the wholesale account's terms never reached the platform, the invoice carries the storefront's own listed price.
This is the earliest point a pricing error becomes visible to the partner rather than surfacing later on the invoice.
The change has to reach the same order record the 850 created. Two separate records for the same purchase order is how a cut gets missed.
It closes the loop on transmission, not on accuracy. A clean 997 next to a wrong invoice is still a wrong invoice.
The documents are standard across retail EDI; where each one lands against the account is what changes per platform.
Wholesale trading partners work to X12 or EDIFACT structures regardless of which commerce platform sits behind the account. The documents above are the usual set a wholesale partner expects, in the usual sequence. What changes per account is where each one is generated from and what it gets checked against before it moves.
Running this account day to day isn't one task, it's four, and they don't stop once the account goes live. Cogent² AI sits across the flow watching for the pricing mismatch, the short ship, the acknowledgement that's running late, so the exception gets caught while it can still be fixed rather than after the remittance lands.
When the partner changes a field on the 855 or adjusts what they'll accept on the ASN, the mapping gets updated without the brand's team learning a new system.
Orders that price wrong, ship short, or sit unacknowledged past their window get flagged before the partner raises them first.
Acknowledgements and ASNs are tracked against the partner's own deadlines, not just against when the warehouse happened to finish.
When a deduction lands on a remittance, it gets checked against the order record it actually belongs to before anyone accepts it.
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No. The commerce engine holds the order record the ASN gets built from, and that doesn't change depending on which storefront is live in front of it. The timing question is about when picking finishes, not about the front end.
No. That's the work Cogent² does: the mapping, the pricing setup, the document build. The brand's team needs to know its own contract terms and its own warehouse process, not the platform's configuration.
No. The two can run separately. Bringing one wholesale account's documents onto Cogent² doesn't require touching whatever handles a different storefront or a different partner relationship.
The contract terms themselves: unit prices, any tiered rates, and confirmation of which account the partner's orders should be checked against. Without that, the engine has nothing to price the order from other than its own catalogue.
Cogent². A storefront rebuild touches the front end the shopper sees, not the mapping between the commerce engine and the partner's documents. That mapping gets updated on our side without waiting on the rebuild to finish.
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