Connect every customer, supplier, partner, and system your manufacturing business depends on.
Cleo helps manufacturers automate EDI and API workflows across ERP, WMS, TMS, retailers, OEMs, suppliers, distributors, marketplaces, and logistics partners — with the visibility needed to keep orders, shipments, and invoices moving.
Turn manufacturing integration activity into business visibility and action
Cleo Integration Cloud connects your ERP and operational systems with customers, suppliers, OEMs, distributors, retailers, and logistics providers. Automate high-volume transactions, monitor each document in business context, and resolve exceptions before they disrupt production, fulfillment, revenue, or customer commitments.
Key manufacturing EDI use cases
Manufacturers use EDI to automate revenue-critical transactions across customers, suppliers, retailers, OEMs, distributors, logistics providers, and internal systems.
- Automate order-to-cash workflows across purchase orders, acknowledgments, ASNs, invoices, payments, and retailer or OEM requirements.
- Connect ERP, WMS, TMS, warehouse, supplier, logistics, and marketplace systems without rebuilding every partner workflow from scratch.
- Support partner-specific requirements for customers and channels such as General Motors, Toyota, Walmart, Target, and other manufacturing trading partners.
Explore manufacturing EDI by industry
Cleo supports the partner requirements, transaction flows, and operational systems that shape EDI across automotive, rubber and plastics, food and beverage, electrical and electronics, and industrial manufacturing.
Automotive EDI
Connect OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, EDI orders, ASNs, labels, forecasts, and logistics updates.
Rubber & Plastics EDI
Automate supplier, customer, and retailer transactions across materials, packaging, parts, and finished goods.
Food & Beverage EDI
Support retailer compliance, seasonal demand, inventory movement, invoices, ASNs, and supplier workflows.
Electrical & Electronics EDI
Connect distributors, retailers, marketplaces, service networks, and ERP workflows for electronics and component operations.
Industrial Manufacturing EDI
Automate 830 planning schedules, forecasts, orders, ASNs, inventory updates, and ERP-connected supplier and distributor workflows.
Connect to the trading partners your business depends on
Cleo helps manufacturers meet partner-specific EDI requirements across OEMs, retail channels, marketplaces, industrial distributors, grocery networks, and logistics providers—without rebuilding every connection from scratch.
Automotive and industrial OEMs
Exchange forecasts, releases, purchase orders, ASNs, labels, shipment updates, and invoices with the OEM and distributor networks that keep parts, equipment, materials, and finished goods moving.
Retail, marketplace, and big-box channels
Automate replenishment, order fulfillment, inventory updates, ship notices, invoices, routing guides, and compliance workflows across retail and marketplace channels.
See how Cleo supports modern manufacturing operations
See how Cleo brings EDI, APIs, and internal systems together so manufacturing teams can track purchase orders, ASNs, invoices, and exceptions from end to end.
Proven outcomes for manufacturing teams
Manufacturers use Cleo to improve EDI reliability, accelerate partner onboarding, resolve issues faster, and gain control over high-volume transactions across complex customer and supplier networks.
Universal Metal Products
EDI success rate across 2,000 to 3,000 monthly transactions
Universal Metal Products uses Cleo to automate EDI operations for automotive and appliance manufacturing, reducing manual effort while supporting strict Tier-1 requirements.
90%Duraflame
reduction in EDI issue resolution time
Duraflame consolidated four legacy integration systems, migrated 98% of B2B transactions to Cleo, and handled a 40% seasonal transaction-volume increase.
10xBrother International
faster partner onboarding
Brother modernized EDI infrastructure with Cleo to support a 6-fold increase in direct website sales and improve order-to-cash transparency.
50%Illumina
faster partner onboarding
Illumina moved to Cleo Integration Cloud to regain control of its B2B integration strategy and speed up onboarding cycles.
200K+Sauder Woodworking
monthly transactions
Sauder replaced legacy IBM Gentran with Cleo Integration Cloud to support DTC and omnichannel fulfillment across 170+ global partners.
100%Victrola
transaction visibility
Victrola modernized omnichannel order-to-cash automation across key retail partners including Amazon, Walmart, Target, Kohl’s, and Best Buy.
How Cleo supports your manufacturing integration priorities
Connect the workflows that drive production, fulfillment, supplier collaboration, compliance, and revenue—all through one integration platform.
| Manufacturing priority | What Cleo helps automate | Explore the solution |
|---|---|---|
| Customer and retailer compliance | EDI 850, 855, 856, 810, labels, routing guides, ASN timing, and chargeback controls | EDI software |
| ERP-connected operations | Orders, inventory, shipments, invoices, acknowledgments, item data, and partner records | ERP and back-office integration |
| Supplier collaboration | Purchase orders, acknowledgments, invoices, shipment updates, scorecards, and non-EDI supplier workflows | Procure-to-pay automation |
| Partner growth | Onboarding, testing, maps, certificates, endpoints, connectivity, validation, and go-live readiness | Trading partner onboarding |
| Operational visibility | Transaction monitoring, alerts, exception resolution, SLA tracking, and partner health | Visibility and analytics |
Manufacturing EDI FAQs
Quick answers for manufacturing teams evaluating EDI, ERP integration, trading partner onboarding, and end-to-end transaction visibility.
What is manufacturing EDI integration?
Manufacturing EDI integration connects trading partners, customers, suppliers, logistics providers, ERP systems, and operational workflows so purchase orders, forecasts, ASNs, invoices, inventory updates, and related documents can move automatically across the manufacturing ecosystem.
Why do manufacturers need EDI integration?
Manufacturers need EDI integration to meet customer and trading partner requirements, reduce manual order entry, improve shipment and invoice accuracy, support retailer or OEM compliance, and gain visibility into revenue-critical transactions.
Which manufacturing industries use EDI?
EDI is widely used across automotive, rubber and plastics, food and beverage, electrical and electronics, industrial manufacturing, consumer goods, furniture, apparel, healthcare manufacturing, and other manufacturing sectors.
How should manufacturers choose an EDI platform?
Manufacturers should evaluate ERP integration, partner onboarding speed, EDI and API support, mapping and standards expertise, visibility, exception management, support model, scalability, security, and the ability to automate common business processes end to end.
Ready to modernize manufacturing EDI?
Share the partners, systems, and workflows you need to connect. A Cleo expert can help you map the right path across EDI, APIs, ERP, partner onboarding, and operational visibility.