Procurement
01Purchase-order collaboration, RFQs and supplier quotations.
Purchase ordersRFQ · quotationsForecasts · schedules
ProcurementCompany
About ESS Hub
ESS Hub is developed and operated by EDI & SAP Solutions SRL, a company focused on SAP, EDI, B2B integration and enterprise supplier processes.
EDI & SAP Solutions SRLEstablished 2013Brașov · Romania · EU
EDI & SAP Solutions SRL was established in 2013.ESS Hub brings that integration and process experience into a standard supplier collaboration product designed to connect suppliers with existing enterprise systems. The product is newer than the company; the experience behind it is not.
EDI & SAP SolutionsSAPEDI / B2BSeeburger BISEDIFACTVDAANSI X12IDocAPI integrationSFTP / MFTEnterprise support
The company
EDI & SAP Solutions SRL
EDI & SAP Solutions SRL was established in 2013 in Brașov, Romania, in the European Union. The company designs, builds and supports enterprise integration landscapes for manufacturing and automotive companies: SAP integration, EDI and B2B connectivity, Seeburger BIS, IDoc interfaces, EDIFACT, VDA and ANSI X12 messaging, API and SFTP / MFT exchange, and the production support that keeps those interfaces running.
ESS Hub is the product built from that work: a supplier collaboration and WebEDI platform that connects suppliers with the procurement, logistics, quality and finance processes of the enterprise through web portal, EDI, API and file-based integration. 2013 is the year the company was established, not the age of the product.
SAPEDI / B2BSeeburger BISEDIFACTVDAANSI X12IDocAPISFTP / MFT
CompanyEDI & SAP Solutions SRLDeveloper and operator of ESS Hub.
Established2013Brașov, Romania · European Union.
Core expertiseSAP · EDI · B2BSAP integration, EDI and B2B integration, supplier collaboration.
Industry experienceAutomotive · manufacturingSupply chains with EDI, VDA processes and structured supplier logistics.
ProductESS HubSupplier collaboration and WebEDI platform · esshub.ai.
Websiteedisapsolutions.comCompany site, services and contact.
Origin
From integration experience to product
Supplier collaboration often sits between two very different worlds: the business process used by suppliers and the technical SAP / EDI landscape used by the enterprise. ESS Hub was created to provide the supplier-facing collaboration layer between those environments. The product reflects practical knowledge of supplier processes, SAP integration, EDI, automotive logistics and supplier quality — the areas EDI & SAP Solutions has worked in as an integration company.
Supplier processesOrders, schedules, shipments, quality and invoices as suppliers work with them
ESS HubThe supplier-facing collaboration layer
SAP / EDI / ERPThe enterprise's technical landscape and systems of record
SAP
SAP expertise
The company's SAP background is integration: connecting SAP purchasing, logistics and finance processes with suppliers and partners through structured business documents — purchase orders and scheduling agreements out, confirmations, despatch advices and invoices in. That is the connection ESS Hub is built around: SAP remains the system of record, the integration layer carries the documents, and the supplier works with the process in the portal or through EDI. ESS Hub is built for SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA landscapes and connects to other ERP systems through the same integration layer. No SAP partnership status is claimed here. SAP Integration
01SAPPurchasing, inbound logistics, invoice verification — the systems of record
02IntegrationStructured business documents in both directions
03Supplier processesWhat the supplier confirms, ships, submits and sees
SAP ↔ integration ↔ supplier processesIntegration in navy
EDI · B2B
EDI and B2B integration expertise
EDI & SAP Solutions works on EDI and B2B integration as an integration company: structured message exchange between enterprises, their suppliers and their service providers.
- Message standards
- EDIFACT, VDA and ANSI X12 messaging for automotive and manufacturing supply chains.
- Exchange
- Traditional EDI connections (AS2, OFTP2), API and SFTP / file exchange, integration middleware such as Seeburger BIS, IDoc interfaces to SAP.
- Operations
- Mappings, partner onboarding and the production support that keeps interfaces running every day.
- Why it matters to ESS Hub
- The supplier-facing process and the enterprise integration process are designed as connected parts of the same architecture. The ASN a supplier creates in the portal becomes the DESADV the customer's landscape expects; an EDI supplier's message and a portal supplier's entry end in the same backend process. EDI & B2B Integration
Product philosophy
The supplier portal was never the hardest part.
The visible portal is one layer. Behind supplier collaboration sit ERP processes, EDI messages, document mapping, master data, supplier connectivity, middleware, business rules, exceptions and production support. ESS Hub was designed from this integration perspective, by the people who operate those layers.
What sits behind a supplier portalThe ESS Hub design perspective
- Supplier collaborationwhat the supplier sees and doesvisible
- Portal · WebEDIorders, shipments, quality, invoices in the browser
- Behind itthe part that decides whether it worksintegration
- ERP processespurchasing, inbound logistics, invoice verification
- EDI messagesEDIFACT · VDA · ANSI X12
- Business document mappingsupplier format ↔ enterprise representation
- Master datasuppliers, materials, plants
- Supplier connectivityportal, EDI, API, files
- Integration middlewarethe platform already in place
- Business rules and exceptionswhat happens when something does not match
- Production supportinterfaces that run every day
Designed from the integration side
ESS Hub starts with the document model and the ERP process, and adds the portal as one channel among several.
One process for every channel
Portal, EDI, API and file-based suppliers participate in the same business process.
SAP first, ERP-agnostic
Built for SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA landscapes; connected to other ERP systems through the same integration layer.
Product, not project
ESS Hub is a product developed and maintained by EDI & SAP Solutions SRL; integration work around it is delivered per landscape.
Automotive
Automotive experience
Automotive is a major area of domain experience for EDI & SAP Solutions: manufacturing and automotive supply chains with many suppliers, EDI as the default channel and processes in which a wrong shipping notice stops a line. Automotive experience influenced the design of ESS Hub, particularly around structured supplier logistics, EDI/WebEDI coexistence and supplier quality processes.
Scheduling agreements and call-offs
Long-term agreements with firm releases; every shipment refers to the demand it fulfils.
Supplier schedulingScheduling agreements & call-offsASN and DESADV
Despatch advice before arrival, structured according to the customer's process — VDA 4987 Global DESADV where the landscape requires it.
ASN · DESADV · VDAASN & DESADVAutomotive labels and packaging
Handling-unit labels that scan at the gate — GTL based on VDA 4994, AIAG B-10 — and agreed packaging per part and plant.
VDA 4994 · GTL · PDSAutomotive labelsSupplier quality
APQP, PPAP, supplier complaints with 8D and supplier scorecards as structured processes between customer and supplier.
APQP · PPAP · 8D · scorecardsSupplier QualityEDI and WebEDI coexistence
EDIFACT, VDA and ANSI X12 for EDI-capable suppliers; a web portal for the suppliers without EDI, in the same enterprise process.
EDI · WebEDIAutomotive WebEDISAP and EDI integration
SAP purchasing, inbound logistics and invoice verification as the systems of record behind supplier collaboration, connected through the existing integration landscape.
SAP · EDISAP IntegrationThe problem
Why ESS Hub was built
The practical problem is simple. Large suppliers often have EDI; smaller or lower-volume suppliers may not; the enterprise still needs a structured supplier process for all of them — the same schedules, shipping notices, quality records and invoices, whatever the supplier's technical capability. ESS Hub was built to extend structured supplier collaboration to suppliers that need a portal while preserving the customer's existing enterprise integration landscape. Connecting non-EDI suppliers to SAP
EDI suppliers
01Large suppliersOften have EDI
02Existing EDIEstablished machine-to-machine connection
03SAP / ERPThe enterprise process
Portal suppliers
01Smaller or lower-volume suppliersOften have no EDI
02ESS HubWeb portal · structured supplier collaboration
03SAP / ERPThe same enterprise process
Two supplier channels, one enterprise processESS Hub in navy
Due diligence
A product, not a portal project
ESS Hub is a product platform. It is configured and integrated for the customer's supplier processes; it is not intended to require a new supplier portal to be developed from scratch for every implementation. The distinction that matters in due diligence is what is product, what is configuration, what is integration and what would be custom development. ESS Hub Platform Overview · Technical architecture
- Product
- The ESS Hub platform: core modules for procurement, logistics, supplier quality and finance, the supplier experience and the standard capabilities described on this site.
- Configuration
- Processes and supplier process scopes; roles and the permission matrix; business rules; notifications and e-mail templates; customer-specific settings such as packaging data sheets, label templates and documents requiring confirmation.
- Integration
- SAP / ERP, EDI, API and SFTP where implemented — through the customer's existing integration landscape.
- Custom development
- Used where a requirement genuinely falls outside standard or configurable product capabilities.
Scope
What ESS Hub covers
Four process areas of the same supplier relationship, in one supplier workspace. Each area is described on its own page; the canonical capability overview is the ESS Hub Platform Overview.
ESS HubDeveloped and operated by EDI & SAP Solutions SRL
Logistics
02Scheduling agreements, call-offs, ASN, shipping and automotive labels.
Call-offsASN / DESADVLabels · packaging
LogisticsSupplier Quality
03APQP, PPAP, supplier complaints / 8D and Supplier Scorecards.
APQP · PPAPComplaints · 8DScorecards
Supplier QualityFinance
04Supplier invoice collaboration and invoice/payment-status visibility.
Electronic invoiceInvoice statusPayment status
InvoicingArchitecture
Built around existing enterprise systems
ESS Hub is designed to work around the customer's existing SAP, ERP and integration landscape. The objective is not wholesale system replacement: SAP or another ERP remains the system of record, existing EDI connections stay in place, and ESS Hub is added as the supplier-facing layer in front of them. SAP Integration · EDI & B2B Integration · Technical architecture
Portal suppliers
01SuppliersWeb portal
02ESS HubSupplier-facing collaboration layer
03Integration layerThe customer's existing integration architecture
04SAP / ERPSystem of record
EDI suppliers
01EDI suppliersOwn EDI systems
02Existing EDIUnchanged
03Integration layerThe customer's existing integration architecture
04SAP / ERPSystem of record
Logical view · interfaces per implementationESS Hub in navy
Differentiator
Product and implementation expertise together
ESS Hub combines a standard product with the SAP, EDI and supplier-process expertise required to integrate the platform into an enterprise landscape. The implementation is delivered by the same company that develops the product; its scope — which processes, which interfaces, which suppliers — is agreed per implementation and does not imply unlimited consulting or services.
01Software productESS Hub: modules, supplier experience, standard capabilities
02Integration expertiseSAP, EDI, B2B — the connection to the enterprise landscape
03Supplier process knowledgeScheduling, shipping, quality and invoicing as suppliers and buyers run them
04ESS Hub implementationProduct configured and integrated for the customer's supplier processes
Product + integration expertise + process knowledgeESS Hub in navy
How we work
How we work with enterprise customers
ESS Hub is a product; the integration around it is delivered per landscape by the ESS team that runs SAP and EDI interfaces in production. The sequence is the same in every implementation; scope, interfaces and pace are defined together with the customer's procurement, logistics, quality, finance and IT teams. No standard duration is published — it depends on the processes, the supplier population and the integration landscape.
01Understand the supplier processProcesses, suppliers, ERP and integration landscape
02Define the integrationDocument model, channels and interfaces per landscape
03Configure ESS HubModules, scopes, roles, business rules; ERP and middleware interfaces built
04TestIntegration and process testing; pilot with selected suppliers
05Onboard suppliersInvitations, registration, onboarding documents — portal, EDI, API and file suppliers, in waves
06Production rolloutProcesses in daily operation
07Support & continuous operationMonitoring, changes, new suppliers and processes
Due diligence
Security and enterprise due diligence
Enterprise security, architecture and compliance requirements are addressed as part of the technical due-diligence and implementation process. The Security page describes the controls in the platform today — authenticated access, role-based access control, supplier-level separation, audit trail, encryption in transit — and how hosting, certification and customer-specific security requirements are handled; the technical architecture resource describes how ESS Hub sits between suppliers and the enterprise systems.
- Security & Trust → /security
- Technical Architecture → /resources/technical-architecture
Scope
Customer-specific requirements
Where a customer has requirements beyond the standard product configuration, these are assessed during the solution and implementation process. Typical examples in an ESS Hub implementation:
- integrations — interfaces and message formats for the customer's SAP / ERP and EDI landscape
- process rules — the business rules applied across the portal, such as confirmation lead times or shipment cancellation windows
- labels and packaging — label templates and packaging data per part and plant
- documents and notifications — documents requiring supplier confirmation, notification events and e-mail templates
- security requirements — the customer's access, authentication and vendor-assessment requirements
- compliance requirements — customer-specific certification requirements can be evaluated during the pre-implementation phase
Assessment does not mean every requirement is accepted or developed; what is standard, what is configuration and what would be custom development is made explicit before the implementation starts.
Transparency
Experience vs product maturity
ESS Hub is a newer product built on the SAP, EDI and supplier-process experience accumulated by EDI & SAP Solutions over years of enterprise integration work. The two histories are deliberately kept apart on this page.
- EDI & SAP Solutions SRL
- An enterprise integration company established in 2013: SAP, EDI and B2B integration and the supplier processes that run on them. Established company, established domain and integration experience.
- ESS Hub
- A product built from that accumulated experience. Newer than the company; developed and operated by it; documented on this site with its current capabilities and its boundaries.
- What not to conclude
- The company's founding year is not the product's age, and the product's newness does not mean the experience behind it is new.
Resources
Public product documentation
ESS Hub publishes technical product information through its Resources area — what the product does today, how it is integrated and where its boundaries are — so that product facts can be checked without a sales conversation.
- Platform
- ESS Hub Platform Overview — the canonical capability overview · Technical architecture
- Automotive & logistics
- Supplier quality
- APQP · PPAP · 8D · Supplier Scorecards
- Finance
- Security
ESS ecosystem
One enterprise integration background. Specialized technologies.
EDI & SAP Solutions is the trust anchor; the products cover different parts of the enterprise process. They are not four unrelated start-ups but one integration practice with specialized technology.
Enterprise integration & servicesEDI & SAP SolutionsSAP, EDI, B2B and enterprise integration expertise since 2013. The company behind every product here.edisapsolutions.com
Supplier collaboration & WebEDIESS HubEnterprise supplier collaboration and WebEDI platform connected to SAP and other ERP systems.This site
Document & AP automationDrelo.aiDocument intelligence and Accounts Payable automation.drelo.ai AI support for SAP & EDIessix.aiAI support for SAP and EDI operations.essix.ai Fact sheet
In plain terms.
The facts about the product and the company, stated once, without adjectives.
Item
Fact
ProductESS Hub
Supplier collaboration and WebEDI platformproduct platform, configured and integrated per customer
Developed and operated byLegal entity
EDI & SAP Solutions SRL
Company establishedNot the product
2013
LocationHeadquarters
Brașov, RomaniaEuropean Union
ExpertiseCompany
SAPEDIB2B integrationSeeburger BISsupplier collaboration
Industry experienceCompany
Automotivemanufacturing
Supplier channelsESS Hub
Web portalEDIAPISFTP / files
ERPESS Hub
SAP ECCSAP S/4HANAother ERP systems through the integration layer
Process areasESS Hub
ProcurementLogisticsSupplier QualityFinance
WebsiteCompany
edisapsolutions.comproduct: esshub.ai
Summary
ESS Hub in one sentence
ESS Hub is an automotive-focused supplier collaboration and WebEDI platform developed by EDI & SAP Solutions SRL to connect suppliers with existing SAP, ERP and EDI processes across procurement, logistics, quality and finance.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Who develops ESS Hub?
EDI & SAP Solutions SRL. ESS Hub is a product developed and operated by EDI & SAP Solutions SRL, an enterprise integration company based in Brașov, Romania.
Who operates ESS Hub?
EDI & SAP Solutions SRL operates ESS Hub as a product platform, including the application at app.esshub.ai, and delivers the implementation and integration work around it.
What is EDI & SAP Solutions SRL?
An enterprise integration company focused on SAP integration, EDI and B2B integration and enterprise supplier processes, working mainly with manufacturing and automotive companies. It is the legal entity behind ESS Hub.
When was EDI & SAP Solutions established?
In 2013. That is the year the company was established; ESS Hub as a product is newer than the company.
Is ESS Hub a new product?
ESS Hub is a newer product built on the SAP, EDI and supplier-process experience accumulated by EDI & SAP Solutions over years of enterprise integration work. The company history should not be read as the product's history: 2013 is the company's founding year, not the product's.
Is ESS Hub a custom-developed supplier portal?
No. ESS Hub is a product platform configured and integrated for the customer's supplier processes; customer-specific development may be used where requirements fall outside standard or configurable capabilities. It is not built from scratch for every customer.
What industries is ESS Hub designed for?
Manufacturing supply chains with a structured supplier process — automotive first, where the supported standards (VDA 4987, VDA 4994) and the logistics and quality processes come from; the same supplier processes apply to other manufacturing sectors.
Is ESS Hub designed for automotive?
Yes. Automotive experience influenced the design of ESS Hub, particularly around structured supplier logistics, EDI/WebEDI coexistence and supplier quality processes such as APQP, PPAP and 8D.
Does the company behind ESS Hub have SAP experience?
Yes. SAP integration is one of the core areas of EDI & SAP Solutions: connecting SAP purchasing, logistics and finance processes with suppliers and partners through structured business documents. ESS Hub is built for SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA landscapes and connects to other ERP systems through the same integration layer.
Does the company behind ESS Hub have EDI experience?
Yes. EDI and B2B integration — EDIFACT, VDA and ANSI X12 messaging, AS2 and OFTP2 exchange, integration middleware such as Seeburger BIS — is the company's background, and the reason ESS Hub is designed to coexist with existing EDI connections.
Does ESS Hub integrate with SAP?
Yes. ESS Hub integrates with SAP and other ERP environments through the implemented integration architecture; SAP remains the system of record. The interfaces are defined per implementation.
Can ESS Hub work with existing EDI infrastructure?
Yes. EDI-capable suppliers keep their established connections; ESS Hub adds the web portal for suppliers without EDI, and both channels end in the customer's existing integration landscape and backend process.
Where can I find technical information about ESS Hub?
In the Resources area of esshub.ai: the ESS Hub Platform Overview (/resources/platform-overview) and the technical architecture resource (/resources/technical-architecture), plus the resources on WebEDI, SAP integration, logistics, supplier quality and finance.
Where can I find ESS Hub security information?
On the Security page (/security), which describes the controls in the platform today and how security, architecture and compliance requirements are handled in enterprise due diligence.
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