Wanna check your EDI knowledge????

Answer these Questions :

• What are the various protocols in use?
• Why should you use EDI?
• What is the structure of EDI message
• What is EDI envelope?
• Which part of the EDI message constitutes the envelope?
• What is the message format before translation
• What is the message format after translation
• Who does the translation
• What do you mean by control number
• How many control numbers are there in an EDI message and what are they
• Why do you need so many control numbers for one edi message
• How are various segments are distinguished in an edi message
• How do I get to know number of segments (segment count) in an EDI message?
• What are delimiters
• Are there any default delimiters?
• If there are default delimiters, can it be over written
• What is the format of delimiter (a. ASCII b. Hex)
• What do you mean by functional acknowledgment
• How different is it from acknowledgement in B2B world
• What is internal properties
• Can I put multiple messages into one and send to trading partner?
• What is batching?
• When and why is batching required?
• Which are all the various verticals use batching?
• Can I use batching to send one document to multiple TPs? If Yes, how different is this from broadcast feature? If No, how can I achieve this usecase
• Can I send multiple docs to more than one TP using batching technique?
• Does validation of payload validates the envelope?

EDI Batching

Batching of messages are an important feature for mostly in transport, logistics, retail world. Batching is a processing of a bunch of messages of similar types. These bunc of messages may belong to one or more trading partners. There would be multiple messages being exchange in a transport, logistics, retail world between two partners, and batching of messages of same document type and revision makes the process easier for both the parties. For example, if all the purchase orders are batced together, it is easy to process all the orders at once and there by avoid multiple exchange of messages and easier for shipping andother purposes.

Since EDIFACT or X12 are the widely used documents in retail industry, batching of EDI document becomes very helpful.

Multiple questions comes to mind... :)

1. How will/should the batch message behave if one of the document is with error?
2. How do we handle if the batching has to periodical and for ever?
3. Can we batch all the PO's for multiple trading partners?

... and so on...

Answer is Yes. It depends on the business logic behind.

-- We can have an option to exclude the error message and batch rest of them Or... we can error out all the messages that is part of that batch!!
-- It is possible batch all the POs of different trading partners. The native payload would have different envelops for different trading partners.

Also, we can have another option of count based batching!!!! Yes... we can have a count being set on the number of messages to be batched.. along with repetitive batching. Depending on either of the criteria, the batch can be triggered!!!


One of the products that provides all these options is .. .Oracle AS B2B ...!!!