What is Electronic Data Interchange?

Electronic data interchange (Electronic data interchange, abbreviation EDI) refers to a set of common standard formats that transmit standard economic information through a communication network to perform data exchange and automatic processing between trading computer electronic systems. Because the use of EDI can effectively reduce and eventually eliminate paper documents in the trade process, EDI is also commonly known as "paperless trading." It's a new way of doing business with computers. EDI is the use of information from industries such as trade, transportation, insurance, banking and customs in an internationally recognized standard format through computer communication networks to enable data exchange and processing between relevant departments, companies and enterprises, Trade-centric business processes.

EDI is the abbreviation of Electronic Data Interchange, that is, electronic data exchange. EDI is not a simple data exchange between users. EDI users need to send information in accordance with the international universal message format. Processing, and cause EDI comprehensive processing of other related systems. It is the electronic transfer of information between computers and uses some agreed upon standard to handle the structure of the information. The entire process is completed automatically without manual intervention, reducing errors and improving efficiency.

An EDI message consists of a string of multiple data elements, each element representing a single fact, such as price and product model number, separated from each other by a separator. The entire string is called a data segment. One or more data segments are defined by the head and tail restrictions as a transaction set, which is an EDI transmission unit (equivalent to a message). A transaction set usually consists of content contained in a particular business document or model. They are considered trading partners when exchanging EDI transmissions.

The EDI system is composed of 4 basic functional modules, such as a communication module, a format conversion mode, a contact module, a message generation and processing module.

EDI is used in finance, insurance and commodity inspection. It can realize rapid circulation and reliable payment of foreign trade, reduce the time required for inter-bank transfers, increase the proportion of available funds, speed up the flow of funds, simplify procedures and reduce operating costs.

EDI is used for foreign trade, customs clearance and customs declaration. EDI is used in the foreign trade industry to improve the competitiveness of users. EDI is used for customs clearance and customs declaration. It can speed up the customs clearance of goods, improve the capacity of external services, reduce the pressure on customs operations, prevent human malpractices, and realize the automation of cargo clearance and paperless international trade.

EDI is used for tax purposes. The tax department can use EDI to develop an electronic tax declaration system to achieve

Financial Electronic Data Interchange (FEDI) is the electronic exchange of payments, related payment information, or financial-related documents between banks and their business partners in a standard way. As EDI plays an increasingly important role in payment activities and has an important impact on the banking industry, companies, enterprises, governments and financial institutions of different sizes are adopting financial EDI to make payments to minimize paper flow. . The FEDI standard is strictly used for B-to-B transactions. There are 4 standard payment methods used for FEDI: Cash Concentration or Disbursement (CCD), Cash Concentration or Disbursement plus addenda (CCD +), Corporate Trade Exchange, CTX), Corporate Trade Payments (CTP). Using these 4 formats enables trading partners to electronically transmit payments and payment-related information through their financial institutions in standard formats

The product of the gateway server includes the architect who acts as the backbone of the integration, providing an excellent extension platform, as a tool for integration implementation, helping customers implement integration projects at the fastest speed. As the architect of the integrated backbone, the most basic include

Gateway Server Integration Server

Gateway Server Adapters

Gateway Server Integration Process Tool Modeler

Developer

Monitoring management tool Administrator

The Gateway Enterprise Edition includes a powerful BPM (Business Process Management Tool) as an enterprise application integration gateway. To support the implementation of business processes that connect different systems and even across enterprises, it provides users with a standards-based, service-oriented architecture and enterprise-level integration capabilities. Comprehensive solution. Users can quickly and reliably integrate the various systems of the enterprise to obtain fully integrated business processes. Through the gateway server process tool, business personnel can easily design business processes, and work closely with technical staff to deploy to the gateway server platform. The gateway server integration process solution has the following functions: Utilize business analysis capabilities instead of just programming the workflow. Transfer tasks, information, or files between end users within the enterprise based on pre-set business principles or logic to achieve business goals without the need for advanced technology. Powerful graphical tools that support rapid, well-organized workflow development and deployment without programming. The workflow designer supports routing, connections, controllers, comparators, timers, and notifiers.

By controlling release, designing, deploying, managing, and maintaining business flows, you can deploy processes in stages and facilitate process reuse. Once defined, analysts can reuse existing operations across any application. Ability to upgrade and deploy business processes without affecting operational processes. Support multi-user group development. Deploy process models in real time. Process models automatically create runtime environments and monitor Java or HTML user interfaces. Transparent enterprise resource access. It can integrate all integration requirements of unusually complex environments (enterprises, partners, heterogeneous IT environments and technical standards and protocols, etc.), and can intervene in the implementation of manual processes. The gateway server helps companies meet the business integration requirements of all common platforms by combining process modeling and solutions.

The gateway server modeling tool is a unified tool for defining, deploying, and adjusting business processes. It integrates internally encapsulated applications, databases, application servers, employee workflows, and enterprise access business partner systems, providing business analysts with easy to understand and understand Depending on the program automation solution. The user's use of the process monitoring program includes a graphical display of the actual process, obtaining information on the process and individual task status. Observe process information such as process identifier, process parent, status of each task, underlying system, and number of process runs. Observe event information and custom documents created within all task-related files. Query process logs, such as determining processes that are still running after a certain date. Get a high-level view of all integration processes in the gateway server library.

Graphical development tools that support various B2B data formats and custom formats, as well as various enterprise application formats, such as iDOC, for data conversion without programming. As a system development tool, it provides a graphical development interface, a business logic implementation mode based on the stream language, supports the generation of web services, embedded Java services, and C services, and supports the generation of C, Java, Excel and other services to access clients. Provides single-step tracking and other functions. Based on Developer, you can develop a variety of application modes such as Java applications, Web applications, C applications. The gateway server has a data conversion and translation engine built into the development tool. The service architecture of the gateway server ensures that the integrated service platform can call the data conversion engine by invoking services. It supports various B2B data formats and custom formats such as: RosettaNet, EDI, ebXML messaging service, CIDX. and various enterprise application formats such as SAP IDOC and other data transformation.

Gateway management

Web-based management interface, real-time monitoring of the status of the entire business process, timely detection and processing of problems, management of trading partners. In addition, as a business process monitoring and management tool, a web-based management interface can monitor the status of the entire business process in real time, detect and handle problems in a timely manner, and the trading partner management function as a partner management interface to achieve business between business partners. Data interaction, business information collection and monitoring, and optimization of business processes between business partners.

Because the gateway server integration platform collects a large amount of real-time data related to the system and business, companies can discover the deficiencies in the system or supply chain business processes based on the collation and analysis of this information, and then conduct supply chain business processes Optimization. Get real-time business and operational information from trading partner exchanges to help companies understand the business impact of integrated actions (for example, users can quickly analyze the value of orders from specific suppliers and trigger follow-up actions). The open structure allows users to use third-party tools to generate business reports.

The gateway server-based business integration platform can easily achieve the interconnection between multiple business systems, realize the sharing and management of information and processes between various systems, optimize the information interaction of multiple business systems, and provide an open, Reliable, secure, high-performance, and extensible integrated framework provides enterprises with comprehensive business perspective capabilities, reduces operating costs, and improves return on investment ^[1] .