EDI Integration with Tesco

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Automate your EDI communications with Tesco

Connect your business systems to Tesco through EDICOM's EDI platform and automate the exchange of critical commercial, logistics, and financial documents, including purchase orders, dispatch advice, invoices, goods receipt messages, tax documents, and transportation consolidation messages.

If you are a Tesco supplier, maintaining a secure, standardized, and fully traceable connection between your ERP and Tesco's systems is essential. EDICOM simplifies EDI integration by automatically transforming document formats, validating business documents, automating key business processes, and centralizing all your B2B communications on a single integration platform.

EDI integration with Tesco for retail suppliers

Tesco operates one of the world's largest retail supply chains, coordinating thousands of suppliers, distribution centers, logistics providers, and procurement processes. In this environment, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) enables business information to flow seamlessly between suppliers, Tesco, and other supply chain partners through standardized, automated document exchange.

By integrating your ERP with Tesco through EDI, you can automate key business processes, including the receipt of purchase orders, the creation of dispatch advice messages, electronic invoicing, goods receipt notifications, and the exchange of transportation and freight consolidation information.

EDICOM acts as the integration layer between your business systems and Tesco, automatically transforming each business document into the required format and managing every exchange through a secure, scalable, and fully traceable B2B integration platform.

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Common EDI messages exchanged with Tesco

An EDI integration with Tesco supports the exchange of a wide range of electronic business documents across procurement, logistics, goods receipt, invoicing, tax compliance, and transportation processes.

The most commonly exchanged EDI messages include:

  • ORDERS | Purchase Order Message: The ORDERS (Purchase Order Message) is used to create and receive purchase orders electronically. It enables suppliers to automate order processing within their ERP, accelerate order fulfillment, and improve coordination across procurement and warehouse operations.
  • DESADV | Dispatch Advice Message: The DESADV (Dispatch Advice Message) is used to notify Tesco of an outbound shipment before goods are delivered. It provides detailed shipment information, improves supply chain traceability, enables receiving teams to prepare for incoming deliveries, and enhances coordination between suppliers, logistics providers, and Tesco.
  • RECADV | Receiving Advice Message: The RECADV (Receiving Advice Message) confirms the receipt of goods. It allows suppliers and Tesco to reconcile shipped and received quantities, identify discrepancies, and streamline both logistics and financial reconciliation processes.
  • INVOIC | Invoice Message: The INVOIC (Invoice Message) is the standard EDI document for electronic invoicing. It automates the creation, transmission, receipt, and processing of invoices as part of both Order-to-Cash (O2C) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) workflows.
  • TAXCON | Tax Control Message: The TAXCON (Tax Control Message) is used to exchange tax-related information and fiscal data associated with specific business transactions. It supports tax reporting, regulatory compliance, and the structured exchange of information required for administrative processes.
  • IFCSUM | Forwarding and Consolidation Summary Message: The IFCSUM (Forwarding and Consolidation Summary Message) is used to exchange information related to freight forwarding, transportation, and cargo consolidation. It is particularly valuable in supply chains involving consolidated shipments, logistics service providers, and complex distribution networks.

The specific EDI messages exchanged with Tesco depend on the commercial agreement, supplier profile, logistics processes, and the integration requirements established with the retailer.

Manage purchase orders, shipments, goods receipt, and invoicing directly from your ERP

An EDI integration with Tesco enables commercial documents to be created, exchanged, received, and processed directly within your ERP or other business systems.

This allows purchase orders to flow automatically into your ERP, dispatch advice messages to be generated as part of your logistics processes, goods receipt notifications to be reconciled against shipments to identify discrepancies, and invoices to be issued with minimal manual intervention.

EDICOM integrates with the world's leading ERP platforms, as well as custom-built applications and enterprise systems, through pre-built connectors, APIs, web services, and tailored integration solutions.

Compatible systems include:

By automating these processes, businesses can eliminate manual data entry, reduce duplicate records, improve visibility across every transaction, and enable teams to work directly from the business applications they use every day.

A single B2B platform for your entire retail ecosystem

Your EDI integration with Tesco is often just one part of a much broader trading network. Many businesses need to connect simultaneously with retailers, marketplaces, logistics providers, wholesalers, suppliers, international customers, and government authorities.

EDICOM brings all these connections together on a single SaaS B2B integration platform, enabling you to manage multiple EDI standards, communication protocols, and document formats through one centralized integration.

This approach allows you to scale your B2B network without maintaining separate integrations, disconnected tools, or manual processes for each trading partner, simplifying partner onboarding while reducing operational complexity.

Optimize your Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay processes

An EDI integration with Tesco helps digitize and automate critical business processes across procurement, sales, logistics, goods receipt, invoicing, and document reconciliation.

Within the Order-to-Cash (O2C) process, you can automate the receipt of purchase orders, streamline shipment preparation, generate electronic invoices, and track the status of every business document throughout the transaction lifecycle.

For Procure-to-Pay (P2P) workflows, EDI enables the seamless exchange of purchase orders, delivery notes, invoices, goods receipt notifications, and other procurement documents, creating a more efficient purchasing and replenishment process.

In addition, EDI messages such as RECADV and IFCSUM improve visibility into goods receipt, freight consolidation, and transportation workflows, helping businesses strengthen supply chain coordination and traceability.

By automating these processes, organizations gain greater operational control, reduce processing times and manual effort, and improve the accuracy and reliability of the information shared across their internal systems and trading partner network.

EDI integration for retail and large-scale distribution

The retail industry depends on fast, standardized, and fully traceable communication between manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, logistics providers, and major retail chains. Every purchase order, shipment, goods receipt, and invoice must reach the right system, in the correct format, and at the right time.

EDICOM's EDI platform automates these exchanges through standardized electronic business documents, reducing administrative effort while improving the efficiency, reliability, and continuity of both commercial and logistics processes.

By integrating your business systems with Tesco through EDI, you can streamline order processing, enhance supply chain traceability, reduce document-related errors, and maintain seamless communication with Tesco and the rest of your trading partner network.

Secure, traceable, and always-on EDI communications

EDICOM provides a secure and scalable environment for managing mission-critical B2B communications with Tesco and all your other trading partners.

The platform delivers end-to-end visibility into every document exchanged, allowing you to monitor the status of each EDI message at every stage of the process, including transmission, receipt, processing, validation, acknowledgment, and error handling.

EDICOM also incorporates security and data protection controls aligned with internationally recognized standards, safeguarding your business information throughout the entire document lifecycle.

Delivered as a SaaS solution with high availability and continuous monitoring, the platform ensures reliable, uninterrupted EDI communications, even in the most demanding business environments.

Multi-Standard, Multi-Protocol EDI Platform

EDICOM enables the exchange of electronic business documents in multiple EDI standards and data formats, adapting to the requirements of each trading partner.

Supported standards and formats include:

  • EDIFACT
  • ANSI X12
  • UBL
  • XML
  • TRADACOMS
  • CSV
  • JSON
  • Proprietary formats
  • Structured documents exchanged via APIs

The platform also supports a wide range of communication protocols, including:

  • AS2
  • AS4
  • OFTP2
  • SFTP
  • FTPS
  • VAN
  • Web Services
  • API

This multi-standard, multi-protocol approach enables you to connect with Tesco and all your other trading partners through a single integration, eliminating the need to build and maintain separate EDI connections for each partner.

Connect with Tesco and your entire trading partner network

Integrating with Tesco through EDI can be the first step toward centralizing electronic data exchange across your entire business ecosystem.

From a single B2B integration platform, you can manage communications with major retailers, marketplaces, logistics providers, suppliers, customers, and government authorities. EDICOM automatically transforms each business document into the format, EDI standard, and communication protocol required by every trading partner.

This allows you to expand your B2B network without increasing the technical complexity of your internal systems, making it easier to onboard new partners while maintaining a single, scalable integration architecture.

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  • ERP Integration: The EDICOM platform establishes links with your ERP, CRM, and other management applications involved in the electronic exchange of data.

  • Security: EDICOM applies rigorous controls to provide information security and confidentiality, in compliance with international regulations.

  • Document traceability: EDICOM provides control of the status of messages regarding their reception, processing, reading, etc.

  • Multi-Standard & Multiprotocol: EDICOM supports EDIFACT, X12, UBL, TRADACOM, XML EDI... any kind of structured document via API, VAN, AS4, SFTP...

  • Qualified Trust Services: EDICOM is a Trust Services Provider in Europe, Mexico, and Colombia for electronic signatures or identification, as well as for archiving and certificated delivery of electronic documents.

  • Connectivity with your partners: EDICOM supports the invoices of your business partners, no matter which solution they are using.

  • 24x7 Availability: EDICOM provides round-the-clock, 99.9% availability under the SLAs signed by EDICOM with clients.

  • Document Approval with e-Signature: EDICOM approval processes are tailored to the complexity you require — define the steps, conditions, and users needed.

Frequently Asked Questions About EDI Integration with Tesco

EDI integration with Tesco enables the electronic exchange of commercial, logistics, and administrative documents between your business systems and Tesco's platform. Using standardized EDI messages, businesses can automate key processes such as purchase orders, dispatch advice, goods receipt, and electronic invoicing.

The most common EDI messages include ORDERS for purchase orders, DESADV for dispatch advice, INVOIC for invoices, RECADV for goods receipt notifications, TAXCON for tax-related information, and IFCSUM for transportation and freight consolidation. The specific documents exchanged depend on your business processes and Tesco's integration requirements.

RECADV (Receiving Advice Message) is used to confirm the receipt of goods. It enables suppliers and Tesco to compare received goods with the original dispatch advice, identify discrepancies, and improve both logistics and financial reconciliation.

IFCSUM (Forwarding and Consolidation Summary Message) is used to exchange information related to transportation, freight forwarding, and cargo consolidation. It supports logistics processes involving shipments, consolidated freight, and more complex distribution operations.

Yes. EDICOM enables direct EDI integration between your ERP and Tesco, automating the creation, transmission, receipt, and processing of business documents. The platform integrates with leading ERP solutions, including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, Infor, Epicor, and many others.

No. EDICOM enables you to connect not only with Tesco but also with thousands of other trading partners through a single B2B integration platform. This includes retailers, marketplaces, logistics providers, suppliers, customers, and government authorities.

EDICOM supports leading EDI standards, including EDIFACT, ANSI X12, UBL, XML, TRADACOMS, and other structured document formats. The platform automatically transforms each document into the format required by every trading partner.

The platform supports a wide range of B2B communication protocols, including AS2, AS4, OFTP2, SFTP, FTPS, VAN, Web Services, REST APIs, and other protocols commonly used for secure B2B integration.

Yes. EDICOM provides a cloud-based SaaS EDI solution hosted on its private cloud infrastructure, delivering high availability, enterprise-grade security, scalability, and continuous monitoring.

Implementation timelines vary depending on the complexity of the project, the number of EDI messages involved, the business systems to be connected, and the level of automation required. In many cases, EDICOM can accelerate deployment thanks to its extensive experience delivering EDI integration projects and its flexible platform, which adapts to a wide range of business and technical environments.

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