Using Electronic Data Interchange Messaging

This chapter provides an overview of electronic data interchange (EDI) and discusses how to:

Process outbound EDI transactions.
Process inbound EDI transactions.

Understanding EDI

EDI transfers data between a trading partner and a business application. A trading partner can be a specific target organization—a vendor or customer—or a specific application such as PeopleSoft Purchasing.

EDI uses messaging technology to process EDI transactions by using a flat file. When an external system publishes a flat file to a PeopleSoft application, you have two choices for messaging subscription:

Expect the third-party that delivers the flat file to insert a middleware layer that converts the file to a message, so that you can subscribe to the message.
Convert the flat file to a message yourself.

Processing Outbound EDI Transactions

PeopleSoft Purchasing supports these EDI outbound transactions:

Request For Quote (RFQ).
Return To Vendor (RTV).
Purchase Order (PO) Dispatch/ PO Change Request.
Purchase Order Expected Receipts.
Purchase Order Receipt Notification.
Credit Card Data.

Use the Publish Outbound Message page to initiate an EDI outbound message process. You can select from the outbound transactions listed to launch a transaction-specific process page.

Processing Inbound EDI Transactions

PeopleSoft Purchasing supports these EDI inbound transactions:

RFQ Response.
Purchase Order Receipt.
Advance Shipment Receipt (ASR).
Purchase Order/ Purchase Order Change Acknowledgement.
Item Price List.
Purchase Order Requisition.
Procurement Card.
GPO Load Manufacturer Price.
GPO Load Distributor Price.