Re: Subject: Re: Amazon EDIFACT/X12 Gateway

[Peter Jakobsson via 4D_Tech]

Hello Jim

I just saw this message. Thanks for replying - interesting case.

Regards

Peter

> On 7 Jan 2019, at 16:45, Jim Medlen via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote:
> 
> We have an account with OpenText an EDI VAN (Value Added Network)
> We use their software to Send and receive EDI documents.

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Subject: Re: Amazon EDIFACT/X12 Gateway

[Jim Medlen via 4D_Tech]

Peter,

We have an account with OpenText an EDI VAN (Value Added Network)
We use their software to Send and receive EDI documents.
The incoming EDI Documents are then parsed by 4D and internal records are 
created
We create EDI formate text files as return documents that are exported from 4D 
to a folder on the client machine.
Those EDI documents are then sent by the OpenText EDI software.

EDI Documents are structured Text documents with guidelines and rules for each 
transaction document.
They are fairly complex but once you are familiar with the formatting it is 
relatively straight forward.

Thanks,

Jim Medlen
Computer & Information Systems
Functional Devices, Inc.
j.med...@functionaldevices.com
phone (765) 883-5538 x 428
fax (765) 883-4262
http://www.functionaldevices.com

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On Jan 4, 2019, at 6:39 AM, Peter Jakobsson via 4D_Tech 
<4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote:
Hi
A very happy new year everybody.
I have an ERP running at a customer site who is a big Amazon suppler (i.e. they 
sell products/services TO Amazon). Amazon want them to submit sales invoices 
via their EDIFACT (or X12) gateway.
I’m a bit out of my depth here as I haven’t done any EDI stuff before, although 
I have quite a lot of experience with interfaces in general - ftp, http, etc. 
Where to start !? Does anyone have experience of this that could point out the 
basics or direct me to some useful docs ?
The comms protocol is AS2 so it would seem that the actual connection is done 
over http. I presume it’s then a case of formatting the documents and sending 
them as an http attachment, but that’s as far as I’ve got so far.
Any tips welcome.
Best Regards
Peter


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Re: Amazon EDIFACT/X12 Gateway

[cjmiller--- via 4D_Tech]

Mostly we do edi using a gateway. We have an edi machine that we place 
documents in and the machine handles the send. We are doing this to SAP shops. 
EDI is pretty complex so I might look at my solution it will then simply be 
building a text document in a particular format

Not sure if that helps or not

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> On Jan 4, 2019, at 6:39 AM, Peter Jakobsson via 4D_Tech 
> <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> A very happy new year everybody.
> 
> I have an ERP running at a customer site who is a big Amazon suppler (i.e. 
> they sell products/services TO Amazon). Amazon want them to submit sales 
> invoices via their EDIFACT (or X12) gateway.
> 
> I’m a bit out of my depth here as I haven’t done any EDI stuff before, 
> although I have quite a lot of experience with interfaces in general - ftp, 
> http, etc. Where to start !? Does anyone have experience of this that could 
> point out the basics or direct me to some useful docs ?
> 
> The comms protocol is AS2 so it would seem that the actual connection is done 
> over http. I presume it’s then a case of formatting the documents and sending 
> them as an http attachment, but that’s as far as I’ve got so far.
> 
> Any tips welcome.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Peter
> 
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Amazon EDIFACT/X12 Gateway

[Peter Jakobsson via 4D_Tech]

Hi

A very happy new year everybody.

I have an ERP running at a customer site who is a big Amazon suppler (i.e. they 
sell products/services TO Amazon). Amazon want them to submit sales invoices 
via their EDIFACT (or X12) gateway.

I’m a bit out of my depth here as I haven’t done any EDI stuff before, although 
I have quite a lot of experience with interfaces in general - ftp, http, etc. 
Where to start !? Does anyone have experience of this that could point out the 
basics or direct me to some useful docs ?

The comms protocol is AS2 so it would seem that the actual connection is done 
over http. I presume it’s then a case of formatting the documents and sending 
them as an http attachment, but that’s as far as I’ve got so far.

Any tips welcome.

Best Regards

Peter

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