Oracle A75089-02 - Manual (Page 36)

Trading Partners
3-2 Oracle e-Commerce Gateway User’s Guide
Trading Partners
In the Oracle e-Commerce Gateway, the term ”trading partner” refers to a particular
location or address of a customer, supplier, or bank engaged in some type of trading
relationship (sending or receiving transactions). Since a given corporation may
have several locations, each with a different set of trading relationships, you must
define one trading partner for each customer address, supplier site, or bank branch.
Trading Partner Groups allow multiple trading partners to be aggregated under one
group entity.
It is very important to distinguish trading partners in Oracle e-Commerce Gateway
from other address locations that may be referenced in an inbound or outbound
document.
Oracle e-Commerce Gateway trading partners define the location or address of any
party sending / receiving electronic documents to / from Oracle Applications.
Within each of these documents, there may be references to other addresses which
are not the sending / receiving location. These addresses are defined within Oracle
Applications as location codes.
Locations codes are used to define any address referenced in an inbound/outbound
document, including trading partners. Therefore, all e-Commerce Gateway trading
partners also have a location code but not all location codes have a corresponding
e-Commerce Gateway trading partner record.
Trading partners defined in Oracle e-Commerce Gateway:
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Link trading partners to Customers, Suppliers, Bank Branches, and other
locations defined in Oracle Applications.
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Link Oracle trading partners to trading partners defined in EDI translation
software or other external applications.
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Allow definition of processing rules such as determining if the transaction is
enabled for the trading partner and if the transaction is test or production for
the trading partner.
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Are used to validate trading partner information on incoming documents.
The location code mentioned above and translator code (see Trading Partner
Details) are crucial to establishing the linkage between Oracle Applications
locations, Oracle e-Commerce Gateway trading partners, and EDI translator’s or
external application’s trading partner. Once established, these links provide the
foundation for completely automated and seamless integration of electronic
documents to / from Oracle Applications.