Carrier
A carrier is an entity you connect to exchange transactions. That is, a carrier electronically carries your files to a trading partner. When a trading partner supports its own direct communications, the trading partner and carrier may be the same. In other cases, the carrier may be a value-added network like GXS, and may be used for multiple trading partners. Carrier information can only be set up for carriers that have been delivered by Lawson with Lawson EDI or created by your organization.
Trading partners as carriers
If your organization is directly connected to a trading partner you are exchanging documents with, then the carrier has the same name as the trading partner company. Establishing trading partners For example, if you are exchanging documents with General Medical, the carrier is GENMED. In this case there is a one-to-one relationship between trading partner and carrier.
Vans as carriers
If, however, you are connecting to a value-added network (VAN), for example, Sterling, the same carrier record might be used for all the trading partners you connect to through Sterling. In this case, there might be one carrier record for multiple trading partners. Value-Added Network (VAN)
Carriers
A carrier record consists of these fields.
| Carrier | Identifies the carrier record; used on Trading Partner (ED10.1) records to identify the carrier for specific trading partners and transactions. Also used by translation server when naming files. |
| Method | Identifies the communications protocol used. |
| Provider | Identifies software responsible for communications. |
| Host | Addressing information for the carrier, for example phone number, IP address, or DNS name. |
| Login | ID used to access the host if required. |
| Access | Password used to access the host if required. |
| User Field 1-6 | Additional parameters used for communications. For example, FTP options or communications ports. |