email on order submit BIP report

Summary

I'm trying to build something to take the place of the business trigger logic since I can't change the data going into that email

Content

looking to send an email automatically to the customer when a manual order is entered, and if possible, when an EDI for a customer comes in.

If I want to create my own data source and report, I'm thinking that I somehow have to trigger an event to deliver an email to the customer when a manual order is entered or and EDI order comes in, both only working if a contact email is associated with the order.