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TRADING PARTNER |
IKON |
Exchange Contact Information
Identify appropriate personnel. This would include EDI members,
business application specialists and business functional managers. |
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Identify Appropriate EDI
Transaction Set
Determine the appropriate business document that the EDI transaction
will replace. |
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Execute Trading Partner Agreement
Submit and approve Trading Partner Agreement. |
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Determine Internal Application System Information Flow
Analysis must be performed to identify business systems that would
interface with EDI. This analysis should also identify how information
would flow between the respective business systems and EDI. |
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Analyze Internal Business Systems
Once the respective business systems are identified, an analysis
must be done to determine what changes, if any, need to be implemented
to support the EDI interface. |
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Develop Trading Partner Profile
Build the necessary trading partner profile components, including
application definitions, transaction maps, partner profiles and
partner cross references. |
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Develop Service Requirements
Outline system recovery procedures and fall back measures, as well
as an error recovery process, network response time requirements,
incident reporting and escalation procedures. |
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Perform Preliminary Testing with Internal Data
Test the EDI infrastructure and associated application interfaces
utilizing data generated internally. |
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Perform Testing with EDI Trading Partner
Test the EDI infrastructure and associated application interfaces
utilizing data generated by the trading partner (inbound) or by
the application (outbound). |
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Review Test Results with Project Participants
Test results should be reviewed by all project participants to ensure
that the project objectives were satisfied and to discuss any remaining
issues. |
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Migrate to Parallel Environment
All programs (Cobol, Harbinger modules, etc.) are to be migrated
to the parallel environment once the testing process has been successfully
completed. During parallel testing, results of EDI transmissions
are compared to the current non-EDI method by project participants. |
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Migrate to Production Environment
Once all project participants are satisfied with parallel testing,
all programs (Cobol, Harbinger modules, etc.) are to be migrated
or changed to the production environment. |
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