CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Preface

  1      What Is Electronic Data Interchange

  1.1     EDI and Trading Partners

  1.2     Standard Document Types

  1.3     Standard Communication Links

  1.4     Advantages of EDI Over a Paper-Based System

  1.5     Summary of EDI

  2      What Is DEC/EDI?

  2.1     The Structure of DEC/EDI

  2.2     The Flow of Documents Through DEC/EDI

  2.3     Document Formats

  2.4     Transmission File Formats

  2.5     Document Standards

  2.6     Communications Links

  3      Document Routing and Tracking

  3.1     Client-to-Client Routing

  3.2     Bypass Routing

  3.3     Application Interfaces

  3.4     Document Tracking

  3.5     Acknowledgements

  4      Setting Up and Running

  4.1     DEC/EDI Environment

  4.2     What You Must Do

  4.3     Management Commands

  DEC/EDI Glossary

  FIGURES

  1-1        Paper-based Document Transfer

  1-2        EDI Document Transfer

  2-1        DEC/EDI Client/Server Configuration

  2-2        DEC/EDI Components

  2-3        Document Flow

  2-4        Document Formats:  Application File

  2-5        Document Formats:  Internal File

  2-6        Document Formats:  External File

  2-7        Document Formats:  Transmission File

  2-8        Transmission File Format

  3-1        Client-to-Client Routing

  3-2        Bypass Routing

  3-3        Application Interfaces

  4-1        EDIT PROFILE Screen 1