Setting Industry Standards
Count on IDEA for the highest standards in eCommerce.
Standards are essential to efficient and effective eCommerce. When data is standardized, it can be transmitted throughout the supply network quickly and without error. Trading partners can all speak the same language. Data synchronization is possible. And the promises of eCommerce can move from theory to fact, delivering:
- Reduced costs from streamlined processes and error elimination
- Improved business relationships fueled by hassle-free transactions
- Simplified processes by automating labor-intensive manual tasks
- Standardized information that is available in one location from a single source of truth
- Increased sales, made possible by smoother transactions and increased focus on core sales processes
We not only adhere to standards, we create them.
IDEA is the official standards-creating body for the electrical industry, serving as such throughout the eCommerce revolution and solving every conceivable challenge along the way. Our passion and dedication for data standardization are well respected and we are partnered with GS1 US in developing UNSPSC codes for a new era of global eCommerce. The official standards and best practices released by the IDEA Standards Committee can be found on MyIDEAportal under My Training and Support.
Those same standards translate to other industries.
Many of the standards we've created address eCommerce, EDI, XML, and product identification challenges that are common to most industries. As a result, the standards-based infrastructure upon which our products and services are built, helps deliver the same time- and money-saving benefits to countless industries who rely on clean data and efficient practices to drive costs out of the supply network.
