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   <Header>
      <Title>Electronic data interchange</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e434995">
         <Level1>Functions and features</Level1>
         <Level2>electronic data interchange</Level2>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e435000">
         <Level1>Electronic data interchange</Level1>
         <Level2>functions and features</Level2>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <GeneralSection>
      <AimSection ID="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000052#aim_EDI">
         <Paragraph>
            <Link href="/baanerp/ec/glossary/glossary#000092" role="glossary" Update="No">Electronic data interchange (EDI)</Link> is used to exchange business documents between two systems. For
		example, a customer sends a purchase order to a supplier through EDI after
		which the supplier responds by sending an invoice to the customer
		electronically. Therefore, EDI eliminates the transfer of paper copies of
		business documents.</Paragraph>
         <Paragraph>Many so-called external <Link href="/baanerp/ec/glossary/glossary#000079" role="glossary" Update="No">standards</Link> of these business documents are
		defined to give rules to the related business processes, the business document
		structure, and the content. In Europe, the UN/ <Link href="/baanerp/ec/glossary/glossary#000005" role="glossary">EDIFACT</Link> standard is used; in the United States, the
		standard is called <Link href="/baanerp/ec/glossary/glossary#000090" role="glossary">ANSI</Link>. Moreover,
		industry-specific standards are also used. For example, SPEC2000 and AECMA for
		aerospace and defense, and <Link href="/baanerp/ec/glossary/glossary#000095" role="glossary">VDA</Link>/ODETTE in the automotive industry.</Paragraph>
         <Paragraph>ERP Enterprise has
		its own internal standard, called BEMIS (Baan Electronic Message Interchange
		System). ERP Enterprise uses the
		BEMIS standard to generate and read messages. All external standards can be
		translated into the internal BEMIS standard or generated from BEMIS by an EDI
		translator, using standard EDI message formats that are supported by your
		business partners.</Paragraph>
      </AimSection>
   </GeneralSection>
   <GeneralSection>
      <List>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000071" role="manual" Update="No">BEMIS</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>In <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ec/edi" role="module">Electronic Data Interchange</GUIRef>, you can specify business documents of various external <Link href="/baanerp/ec/glossary/glossary#000079" role="glossary" Update="No">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, and <Link href="/baanerp/ec/glossary/glossary#000090" role="glossary">ANSI</Link>. Baan Electronic
		  Message Interchange System (BEMIS) is the internal ERP Enterprise 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.</ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000072" role="manual" Update="No">BEMIS design principles</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>A BEMIS business document must be designed following a
		  predefined set of rules. If these rules are not met, the business document does
		  not comply with the BEMIS standards.</ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000073" role="manual">BEMIS - Content</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>Although most of the EDI setup data is user-definable, ERP Enterprise also provides all
		  required EDI data as default data. This information can be exported from the
		  Enterprise Base Data company 050, or downloaded at <Link href="http://edi.infor.com" role="wwwlink">http://edi.infor.com</Link>. The result is an ASCII file, called <Code>defaults.edi</Code>, that can be imported into the companies that use EDI.</ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000058" role="manual" Update="No">Setting up EDI</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>Before you can use EDI, you must set up EDI data, such as
		  master data, networks, codes and conversions, conversion setups, import and
		  export data, communications, and messages.</ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000061" role="manual" Update="No">Receiving and generating EDI messages</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>You can manually or automatically receive and generate EDI
		  messages.</ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/ec/onlinemanual/000051" role="manual" Update="No">History</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>The history of incoming and outgoing messages is kept so that
		  you can trace specific messages.</ListItem>
      </List>
   </GeneralSection>
</ManualTopic>