EDI interfaces

Can somebody tell me about EDI interfaces?

Former Member · ‎2008 May 28

HI

An inter-company, application-to-application communication of data in standard format for business transactions, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a set of standards for structuring information that is to be electronically exchanged between and within businesses, organizations, government entities and other groups. The standards describe structures that emulate documents, for example purchase orders to automate purchasing. The term EDI is also used to refer to the implementation and operation of systems and processes for creating, transmitting, and receiving EDI documents.

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) can be formally defined as 'The transfer of structured data, by agreed message standards, from one computer system to another without human intervention'

An inter-company, application-to-application communication of data in standard format for business transactions, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a set of standards for structuring information that is to be electronically exchanged between and within businesses, organizations, government entities and other groups. The standards describe structures that emulate documents, for example purchase orders to automate purchasing. The term EDI is also used to refer to the implementation and operation of systems and processes for creating, transmitting, and receiving EDI documents

Despite being relatively unheralded, in this era of technologies such as XML web services, the Internet and the World Wide Web, EDI is still the data format used by the vast majority of electronic commerce transactions in the world.

The EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) standards were designed to be independent of communication and software technologies. EDI can be transmitted using any methodology agreed to by the sender and recipient. This includes a variety of technologies, including modem (asynchronous, and bisynchronous), FTP, Email, HTTP, AS1, AS2, etc

There are four major sets of EDI standards:

u2022The UN-recommended UN/EDIFACT is the only international standard and is predominant outside of North America.

u2022The US standard ANSI ASC X12 (X12) is predominant in North America.

u2022The TRADACOMS standard developed by the ANA (Article Numbering Association) is predominant in the UK retail industry.

u2022The ODETTE standard used within the European automotive industry

For further informationhttps://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/advancedsearch?query=edi+interfaces&cat=sdn_all

http://www.tradanet.intnet.mu/Tutorial/EDItutorial.htm

http://www.tradanet.intnet.mu/Tutorial/EdiTutIx.htm

http://www.icc.net/en_US/oc/icc.net/Resources/EDITutorial/

http://www.edi-solution-info.com/

/people/nithiyanandam.au2/blog/2008/02/20/handling-edi-interfaces-using-seeburger-bic-modules

/people/bla.suranyi/blog/2006/06/08/sap-xi-supports-edifact