Planning Your Trading Network
This chapter describes the tasks to plan for and to set up your trading network. The general order of tasks is:
1. Identify the types of documents Trading Networks handles.
2. Define any custom document attributes you require.
3. Define the document types for the documents Trading Networks handles.
4. If desired, define processing rules to process the documents.
5. If desired, define business processes to process the documents.
6. Define how to deliver documents to partners.
7. Create the Enterprise profile for your corporation and a partner profile for each of your trading partners. Review the standard profile fields and define any extended profile fields that you require.
You might want to perform tasks 1 through 6 in a development environment. You can use the development environment to test whether documents are processing as you intended. After you ensure that your trading network is defined properly, you can export your Trading Networks assets to a production environment.
You can then create your profile and the partner profiles in your production environment.
You can BAM-enable Trading Networks using webMethods Optimize for B2B; that is, you can analyze and monitor Trading Networks transactions for business purposes. For instructions, see webMethods Optimize for B2B User’s Guide.