For each customer or vendor with whom you have an EDI relationship, you need to set up a trading partner profile. The system uses the information stored in the profiles to prepare data for transmission to and process data received from each trading partner.
Trading Partner Profiles
The trading partner profile identifies the entity's unique trading partner ID and the ISA Envelope information, including the communication standard, version number, optional security information, and data separators that the value added network (VAN) uses.
Group Profiles
Each trading partner profile contains one or more group profiles. An EDI group profile identifies the EDI documents your company exchanges with that trading partner group.
Assigning an EDI customer or vendor to a group profile identifies their trading partner and the documents they exchange with that trading partner. Multiple vendors or customers can use the same group profile.
Typically, a trading partner has just one group, and the trading partner and group IDs are the same number. If a company has multiple divisions, there may be multiple group numbers associated with the trading partner ID. For example, a corporation may have separate lighting and wiring divisions, and each division is assigned its own group ID.
See Also:
Creating Trading Partner Profiles
Deleting Trading Partner Profiles