Sample Scenario Business Description

This sample scenario and its Projects demonstrate the configuration of eXchange to support X12. The scenario involves the ASC X12 PM and two TPs, an Atlanta company and a Berlin company. The current viewpoint is assumed to be Atlanta. The resulting B2B solution functions as follows:

• X12 850 Purchase Order Request payloads are read from a local (internal) file.

• The individual payloads are wrapped in the inner and outer X12 envelopes and sent to the Berlin Trading Partner.

• Berlin replies with a TA1 and 997 Functional Acknowledgments.

• Berlin delivers an 855 Purchase Order Response and receives TA1 and 997 acknowledgments.

• eXchange prepares and writes the individual response payloads to an internal file and displays the messages in Message Tracking.

You can change the sample’s scenario to reverse the companies’ sender and receiver roles, if you want (see Chapter 6, ASC X12 PM Sample Scenario Tutorial for more details). See Using Message Tracking for details on this feature.

Figure 5–1 shows a diagram of the ASC X12 PM sample’s basic operation.

Figure 5–1 Sample Scenario Diagram

For a more detailed diagram, see Figure 6–1.