EDI

EDI provides Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) capabilities that extend and complement traditional ERP business processes. EDI supports standard business practices and trading partner variations.

Features:

• Transforms messages that contain structured data from one format into another. Structured data are BOD messages, EDI messages, or files of special formats such as XML and other structured data formats.
• Imports shipper, shipment information, commercial and pro forma invoice information from the ERP system.
• Responsible for handling print requests from all services of the application.
• A service that uses the ION Messaging Service (IMS) to send and receive BOD messages to and from other applications that are connected to ION.
• In global functional areas, application-wide, non-tenant specific configuration data can be accessed.
• Administrative functions to manage additional data and master data that are used by the functional areas, Transformation and Shipping.
• The service receives inbound messages from trading partners and sends outbound messages to trading partners through a communication provider service.
• The Alert service uses IMS to send alerts to the ION Pulse Engine. The alert is delivered to the user in Infor OS Portal.