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   <Header>
      <Title>An overview of BEMIS</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e307876">
         <Level1>BEMIS</Level1>
         <Level2>overview</Level2>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e307881">
         <Level1>Baan Electronic Message Interchange System</Level1>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <GeneralSection>
      <Paragraph>Iin the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ec" role="package">Electronic Commerce</GUIRef> package, users can define business documents of various
		external <Link href="/baanerp/ec/glossary/glossary#000079" role="glossary" Update="No">EDI standards</Link>, such as <Link href="/baanerp/ec/glossary/glossary#000095" role="glossary">VDA</Link>, UN/ <Link href="/baanerp/ec/glossary/glossary#000005" role="glossary">EDIFACT</Link>, Odette, <Link href="/baanerp/ec/glossary/glossary#000090" role="glossary">ANSI</Link>, and so on. Baan
		Electronic Message Interchange System (BEMIS) is the internal LN standard to which
		external standards are converted. Conversion of the internal standard to an
		external standard and vice versa is carried out by an EDI translator.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>As a result, BEMIS reduces maintenance costs and reuses data.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>
         <HTML:IMG xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" height="332" width="505"
                   SRC="../images/business_documents.gif"
                   alt="[...]"/>
      </Paragraph>
      <ExampleSection>
         <SectionTitle>Example</SectionTitle>
         <List>
            <ListIntro>The following business documents/EDI messages contain
			 forecast information on schedules:</ListIntro>
            <ListItem>VDA 4905</ListItem>
            <ListItem>Odette DELINS</ListItem>
            <ListItem>UN/EDIFACT DELFOR</ListItem>
            <ListItem>ANSI X12 830</ListItem>
         </List>
         <Paragraph>All of these documents are supported by the BEMIS business
		  document BEMIS MRL001 (Material Release).</Paragraph>
      </ExampleSection>
      <Paragraph>Business documents can also be used internally in a <Link href="/baanerp/tc/glossary/glossary#MultiSite_tc" role="glossary">multisite</Link> environment. In this case, BEMIS messages need
		not be converted to an external standard.</Paragraph>
   </GeneralSection>
   <GeneralSection>
      <SectionTitle>BEMIS elements</SectionTitle>
      <List>
         <ListIntro>The following elements are used for BEMIS:</ListIntro>
         <ListItem>
            <Link href="#biz_doc" role="internal" Update="No">Business document</Link>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItem>
            <Link href="#edi_msg" role="internal" Update="No">EDI message</Link>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItem>
            <Link href="#conversion" role="internal" Update="No">Conversion setup</Link>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItem>
            <Link href="#data_segment" role="internal" Update="No">Data segment</Link>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItem>
            <Link href="#data_element" role="internal" Update="No">Data element</Link>
         </ListItem>
      </List>
      <Figure space-and-orientation="indented-estimated">
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                   SRC="../images/bemis_flow.gif"
                   alt="[...]"/>
      </Figure>
      <Paragraph>A business document contains one or more EDI messages. An EDI
		message contains one or multiple data segments that consist of one or multiple
		data elements.</Paragraph>
      <GeneralSection ID="biz_doc">
         <SectionTitle>Business document</SectionTitle>
         <Keyword type="section" order="d1e307955">
            <Level1>Business document</Level1>
         </Keyword>
         <Paragraph>A business document describes a business process between
		  trading partners.</Paragraph>
         <List>
            <ListIntro>BEMIS supports the following business documents:</ListIntro>
            <ListItem>
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000075" role="manual" Update="No">Order</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem>
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000076" role="manual" Update="No">Schedule</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem>
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000077" role="manual" Update="No">Delivery</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem>
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000079" role="manual" Update="No">Freight</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem>
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000078" role="manual" Update="No">Invoice</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem>
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000080" role="manual" Update="No">Error Handling</Link>
            </ListItem>
         </List>
      </GeneralSection>
      <GeneralSection ID="edi_msg">
         <SectionTitle>EDI message</SectionTitle>
         <Keyword type="section" order="d1e307984">
            <Level1>EDI messages</Level1>
         </Keyword>
         <Paragraph>EDI messages are the messages that are communicated between
		  trading partners within a specific business document.</Paragraph>
         <List>
            <ListIntro>BEMIS supports the following EDI messages:</ListIntro>
            <ListItem> 
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000075#ord" role="manual">Order (ORD)</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem> 
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000075#ors" role="manual">Order Acknowledgement/Response (ORS)</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem> 
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000075#orc" role="manual">Order Change (ORC)</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem>
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000075#oca" role="manual">Order Change Acknowledgement/Response (OCA)</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem> 
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000076#pur_releases" role="manual" Update="No">Material Release (MRL)</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem> 
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000076#pur_releases" role="manual" Update="No">Shipping Schedule (SHP)</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem>
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000076#pur_releases" role="manual" Update="No">Sequence Shipping Schedule (SEQ)</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem>
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000077#asn" role="manual">Advance Shipment Notification (ASN)</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem> 
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000077#rdn" role="manual">Receipt Discrepancy Notification (RDN)</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem> 
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000078#inv" role="manual">Invoice (INV)</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem>
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000078#rad" role="manual">Remittance Advice (RAD)</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem>
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000079#fml" role="manual">Load Information to Carrier (FML)</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem>
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000079#fms" role="manual">Carrier Status Information (FMS)</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem> 
               <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000080" role="manual" Update="No">Error Notification (ERN)</Link>
            </ListItem>
            <ListItem>Message Status (STATUS)</ListItem>
         </List>
         <Note>
            <SectionTitle>Note</SectionTitle>
            <Paragraph>The Message Status (STATUS) can be used to update the status
			 of previously generated EDI messages. Only an incoming conversion setup exists
			 for this message.</Paragraph>
         </Note>
      </GeneralSection>
      <GeneralSection ID="conversion">
         <SectionTitle>Conversion setup</SectionTitle>
         <Keyword type="section" order="d1e308054">
            <Level1>Conversion setup</Level1>
         </Keyword>
         <Paragraph>The conversion setup is related to the format of an EDI
		  message within a specific service/feature pack.</Paragraph>
      </GeneralSection>
      <GeneralSection ID="data_segment">
         <SectionTitle>Data segment</SectionTitle>
         <Keyword type="section" order="d1e308062">
            <Level1>Data segment</Level1>
         </Keyword>
         <Paragraph>A data segment is the intermediate unit of information in an
		  EDI message. A data segment consists of a predefined set of functionally
		  related data elements that are identified by their sequential positions within
		  the set.</Paragraph>
      </GeneralSection>
      <GeneralSection ID="data_element">
         <SectionTitle>Data element</SectionTitle>
         <Keyword type="section" order="d1e308070">
            <Level1>Data element</Level1>
         </Keyword>
         <Paragraph>A data element is the smallest named item in the BEMIS
		  standard. It can represent a qualifier, a value, or a text, such as a
		  description.</Paragraph>
      </GeneralSection>
   </GeneralSection>
   <RelatedTopics>
      <SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000072" role="manual">BEMIS - Design Principles</Link>
      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000073" role="manual">BEMIS - Content</Link>
      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000052" role="manual">Electronic Data Interchange</Link>
      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000053" role="manual">Using external EDI</Link>
      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000054" role="manual">Using internal EDI</Link>
      </RelTopic>
   </RelatedTopics>
</ManualTopic>