The Lens
When you choose First B2B as your UK EDI provider, you're choosing to streamline your current business process whilst also gaining access to our innovative, user-friendly dashboard, The Lens.
Key Focus of The Lens
Exchanging electronic documents should be a simple, stress-free process. Recognising the need to simplify EDI, First B2B developed a user-friendly EDI web portal aimed at non-IT users. We understand that you don’t have the time or resources to be scouring esoteric EDI documents, searching for an invoice from two years ago - The Lens is built with a keyword search function, allowing you to filter through data we have processed on your behalf, saving your company valuable time. And we keep this data available for you for three years without extra fees! The layout of data processed is designed for use by non-IT users so Accounts Receivables teams or Sales Order Processing Teams can use The Lens as easily as IT teams. There is also a more technical view of the data should you wish to use that.
We also understand how critical it is that your electronic documents are exchanged on time, successfully. To provide you with full transparency of your processes The Lens allows you to view the data on each of your documents transmitted and even shows when your trading partner received the data.
The Lens also provides you with a clear dashboard showing your documents processed on your behalf over the period with your costs for the current period and the success rate for all your documents and more information at a detailed level if you wish.
Core Benefits of The Lens
Not only will your EDI web portal dashboard display the status of your electronic documents, but it will also send you notifications if there are any errors within your documents. Unlike most technical software systems, our EDI system features understandable terms, to enable you to fix any issue, quickly and easily.
The Lens also uses machine learning to understand the way your business processes electronic documentation. This machine learning records every document you process, how long it takes to process, and how it is received. The system then uses algorithms to understand your specific document processing profile. The Lens can then alert you when documents processed do not match your historical profile, alerting you to missing documents or delays in processing. This alerting mechanism means you're informed of issues in a pre-emptive manner, minimising risk to your customer relationships, cash flow, and supply chain.
We work with many major businesses within the food and beverage sector, including:
