EDI Document Inbound Processing
There are three steps in processing an inbound EDI document:
Trading Networks processes ANSI X12 and UN/EDIFACT documents identically. Though VDA and TRADACOMS documents are structured differently than other documents, they are roughly analogous to other document types and, so, are processed similarly:
ANSI X12 and UN/EDIFACT document type | VDA document type | Analogous TRADACOMS document type |
Interchange | Envelope | Transmission |
Transaction set | Envelope Note:
Only one VDA message is present in a transaction. | File |
Group | No equivalent | Batch |
Functional Acknowledgment (FA) | No equivalent | No equivalent |
Important:
Although Trading Networks can process documents of any supported EDI standard, it cannot properly process a mixture of TRADACOMS and non-TRADACOMS documents in a single submission. If the first inbound document is a TRADACOMS document, Trading Networks considers any subsequent non-TRADACOMS documents to be of the Unknown document type. Similarly, if the first inbound document is a non-TRADACOMS document, Trading Networks considers any subsequent TRADACOMS documents to be of the Unknown document type.
Initial Processing of the EDI
Recognizer