The main advantages related to the use of EDI are the reduction of the costs and the time of sending documents, as well as the possibility to have automated treatments. This automation of the commercial procedures concerns a lot of firms and particularly large companies placing a significant number of orders. This is particularly true in the great distribution, indeed, the supermarkets (Casino, Carrefour, Auchan, ...) privilege more and more the use of EDI with their suppliers for the orders, the return of Expedited Delivery and the invoices. Moreover, EDI is lead up to be a strong link of Supply Chain which consists to add physical flow (manufacture, provisioning parts ), a logical flow, of purchase of the raw materials, until the sale to the customer passing by monitoring the stocks.

The major EDI disadvantage is its cost about equipment expenses (being able to rise to several thousands of euros) for a company working only occasionally with partners who impose to him EDI as reception mode of his orders.

@GP proposes an attractive alternative to this traditional system, it's about WebEDI. You can retrieve your documents and make your operations from any computer equipped with Internet connection. The necessary material is at @GP, thus allowing a considerable reduction of costs for the user company.