Silent payload drift
When Your ERP updates a field schema, untyped pipelines keep "succeeding" while writing the wrong values into Trading Partners.
B2B Integration — Trading Partners, ERPs and Suppliers in One Place
B2B integration is the practice of connecting your business systems — ERP, WMS, ecommerce, finance — to the systems your trading partners, suppliers, customers and 3PLs run on. It covers EDI, API, flat files and everything in between. APIWORX delivers B2B integration as a fully managed service so orders, ASNs, invoices, inventory and remittances flow automatically between you and every partner you work with.
Managed integration · 99.97% sync success · 30s mean root-cause
What B2B Integration Actually Means
B2B integration goes beyond a single API connection. It is the discipline of moving structured business documents — purchase orders, advance ship notices, invoices, inventory updates, remittance advice — between your company and every external party you transact with. The mechanics include EDI (X12, EDIFACT), modern REST/JSON APIs, AS2, SFTP, and the occasional spreadsheet. The hard part is making it all reliable, monitored and forward-compatible.
- Document exchange — POs, ASNs, invoices, inventory, remittances and product data exchanged with retailers, suppliers, distributors and 3PLs
- Multi-protocol — EDI X12 and EDIFACT, REST and SOAP APIs, AS2, SFTP, and direct database connections, all on one platform
- Translation and mapping — every partner has its own dialect; APIWORX maps them to your canonical model so your ERP only ever sees clean data
- Real-time visibility — every transaction is logged, every error is alerted, and a real human investigates before the partner notices
- Compliance — retailer-specific labeling, GS1, UCC-128, ISA/GS envelopes, and chargeback prevention built in
Why Most B2B Integration Projects Stall
The standard B2B integration story is the same: a VAN bill that climbs every quarter, a homegrown middleware nobody understands, and a chargeback every time a retailer ships a spec change. APIWORX replaces all three with a managed platform and a team that owns the outcome.
- No middleware to maintain — APIWORX runs on the APIXX platform; your team never logs into a mapper or a queue
- Trading partner library — production-tested mappings for Walmart, Target, Amazon, Home Depot, Wayfair, Lowe's, and 50+ other retailers
- Spec changes absorbed — when a retailer ships a 4030 → 5010 transition or a new ASN requirement, APIWORX handles it
- Monitoring that works — event-, job- and transaction-level monitoring with proactive alerting before chargebacks hit
- Predictable pricing — flat subscription, not per-kilocharacter VAN fees that punish growth
B2B Integration Use Cases APIWORX Delivers
- Retailer EDI — Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Lowe's, Costco and 45+ other retailers translated into clean ERP orders
- Supplier integration — drop-ship and wholesale suppliers connected through EDI or API so inventory and POs stay accurate
- 3PL and WMS — ASN, shipment confirmation, inventory adjustments and returns flowing between 3PL and ERP in real time
- Marketplace B2B — Amazon Vendor Central, Wayfair CastleGate, Target Plus and other marketplace EDI flows
- Customer EDI portals — when your B2B customers demand EDI, APIWORX delivers the partner-side onboarding and mapping
- API-to-EDI bridges — modern REST APIs on your side, classic EDI on the partner side, with no custom code in between
B2B Integration Platform vs DIY vs Legacy VAN
Most teams arrive at APIWORX from one of three places: a DIY scripts-and-cron-jobs setup that broke once the volume grew, a legacy VAN that bills per character and cannot do APIs, or a generic iPaaS that was never built for trading partner specifications. A purpose-built B2B integration platform gives you the reliability of EDI with the agility of API.
- vs DIY — no on-call rotations, no orphaned scripts, no "the person who built this left"
- vs legacy VAN — flat pricing, modern monitoring, and native API connectors alongside EDI
- vs generic iPaaS — APIXX speaks ERP, EDI and commerce natively; you do not have to build adapters
What usually breaks
Where a Your ERP and Trading Partners workflow quietly fails.
Most teams discover sync issues from a customer complaint, a chargeback, or a variance at month-end close — long after the cost is already booked. These are the failure modes APIWORX is engineered to absorb before they reach your operators.
Rate-limit cliffs
Bursts during promos or end-of-month batches trip API quotas; orders queue, retries cascade, inventory drifts.
Partial writes
An order header posts, line items fail validation, no one sees it — until finance can't reconcile the settlement.
Idempotency gaps
Webhook redelivery duplicates orders, inflates inventory adjustments, and corrupts revenue reports.
Mapping rot
New SKUs, GL accounts, warehouses, or tax codes silently miss mappings and route to "Uncategorized" forever.
Compliance exposure
Retailer routing guides, EDI 856 timing, ASN accuracy — every missed window becomes a chargeback line.
Workflow architecture
How Your ERP ↔ Trading Partners actually runs in production.
Every workflow is decomposed into discrete, observable stages — ingestion, transformation, validation, delivery — with persistence and replay between each step. No black boxes, no “hope the webhook worked.”
Your ERP
Event source
healthy
Ingest & normalize
Schema-typed
healthy
Validate & enrich
Rules + APIXX AI
healthy
Deliver & confirm
Idempotent write
healthy
Trading Partners
System of record
healthy
Throughput12,840 events / hr
p95 latency418 ms
Success rate (24h)99.97%
Exception handling
Failures don't disappear. They get worked.
Every failed event lands in a typed exception queue with the payload, the failing field, the upstream actor, and a retryable verdict. Your team — or ours — works the queue, not the inbox.
- Per-flow retry policies with exponential backoff + jitter
- Automatic replay after schema or mapping fix
- Hold-for-review on ambiguous writes (no silent corruption)
- Full payload + diff stored for compliance and audit
Exception queue
last 24h
- held
2mevt_8af21c · Your ERP → Trading PartnersMissing GL mapping for SKU 'GLOW-24-RFL'
- resolved
11mevt_8af1d3 · Your ERP → Trading PartnersAPI 429 — retried 3× successfully
- review
47mevt_8aedf0 · Trading Partners → Your ERPInventory delta exceeds threshold (412 units)
- held
1hevt_8ae9a1 · Your ERP → Trading PartnersTax code 'EU-VAT-RC' not in destination
3 held · 1 in review · 24 auto-resolvedView all →
Operational outcomes
What changes for your operators in the first 30 days.
99.97%
Sync success rate
Across Your ERP ↔ Trading Partners workflows, post-stabilization.
− 86%
Manual reconciliation
Settlement, inventory, and order variance work, by hours/week.
< 30s
Mean root-cause time
From failure to actionable diagnosis via APIXX AI.
0
Late-bound surprises
No more discovering breakage at month-end.
Managed accountability
You don't own the pager. We do.
APIWORX is not a tool you stand up and forget. We operate the integration with you — SP-API auth rotations, schema-change patches, retailer compliance updates, and 24×7 on-call coverage are part of the subscription.
Named operations engineer
SLA-backed response times
Schema & API change tracking
Quarterly architecture review
Who owns what
| Responsibility | You | APIWORX |
|---|---|---|
| Business rules & mappings | ||
| API authentication & rotation | — | |
| Rate-limit handling & retries | — | |
| Monitoring, alerting, on-call | — | |
| Schema & connector upgrades | — | |
| Exception triage & replay | ||
| Quarterly architecture review | — |
Enterprise architecture
How Your ERP ↔ Trading Partners fits into your operational stack.
Four layers. Each independently observable, independently replayable, and governed by the same Data APIXX entity model so finance, ops, and engineering see the same truth.
Sources
Your ERP
Trading Partners
Marketplaces
EDI partners
3PLs
WMS
Connectors (226+)
Auth
Pagination
Rate-limit
Webhooks
Retries
Backfill
Data APIXX — unified entity model
Order
Inventory
Shipment
Invoice
Customer
Settlement
Flows + APIXX AI diagnostics
Routing
Validation
Reconciliation
Exception queue
Alerts
Destinations
ERP
Finance
OMS / WMS
BI / warehouse
Storefront
CRM
Industry complexity
The complexity generic connectors won't admit to.
Retail & marketplace compliance
Routing guides, label specs, ASN timing, OTIF scorecards. We encode the rules and monitor adherence per partner.
B2B distribution & EDI
850/855/856/810 cycles, partner-specific 856 variants, multi-DC shipments, and pricing-by-customer logic.
Multi-entity finance
Currency, tax jurisdiction, intercompany, deferred revenue, and dimension mapping for clean close.
Manufacturing & supply
Work-order status, BOM revisions, supplier ASN, and inventory transfer accuracy across facilities.
DTC & subscription
Recurring billing, partial refunds, dunning, and gift-card liability — reconciled to the cent.
3PL & fulfillment
Multi-warehouse allocation, carrier rate shopping, exception-on-receive, and inventory drift detection.
Your ERP ↔ Trading Partners — operational health
live · 1m refresh
Events / min
214
Errors / min
0.4
p95 latency
418ms
−24hnow
13:42Auto-recovered from Your ERP 429 burst
13:31Schema change detected — destination field added
12:58Mapping coverage alert resolved
Observability
You see what we see.
Every event, payload, and decision is logged and queryable. Throughput, error rate, latency, and mapping coverage are exposed as first-class metrics — and routed to your Slack, Teams, or PagerDuty on the thresholds you set.
- Per-flow SLOs with burn-rate alerts
- Mapping coverage drift detection
- Anomaly detection on inventory and settlement variance
- Audit log export to Snowflake / BigQuery / S3
APIXX AI diagnostics
Root-cause in 30 seconds. Not 3 hours.
APIXX AI watches every flow, payload, and exception. When something breaks, it correlates the failure against schema changes, rate-limit history, and prior incidents — and tells you exactly which mapping, field, or upstream actor caused it.
APIXX AI · incident #4821
resolved · 28s
Failure
47 Your ERP order events failed validation writing to Trading Partners.
Root cause
Your ERP added field
tax_inclusive on 2026-05-17. Mapping to Trading Partners Line.TaxIncluded not configured.Recommended action
Add mapping (1-click), replay 47 held events. Estimated impact: $18,420 in unblocked revenue.
Operational readiness review
Send us your stack. We'll send back the architecture.
A 30-minute working session with an APIWORX operations engineer. You leave with a documented Your ERP ↔ Trading Partners architecture, the failure modes we'd absorb, and the SLOs we'd commit to. No pitch.