An overview of EDI business documents

Electronic data interchange (EDI) is used to exchange business documents between two systems. Users can specify business documents of various external EDI standards, such as VDA, UN/ EDIFACT, Odette, ANSI, and so on. With the Baan Electronic Message Interchange System (BEMIS) standard, external standards are converted to an internal LN standard. Conversion of the internal standard to an external standard and vice versa is performed by an EDI translator.

A business document describes a business process between trading partners.