15.1 Business scenario

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As described in our inter-enterprise Web services scenario in 14.1, "Business scenario" on page 300, ABC Electronics wishes to enable their external resellers to place orders to the wholesale group. Currently, the resellers fill out an order form and mail it to the wholesale organization. Difficulties arise when orders cannot be filled because of latency in the manual process and outdated inventory.

In this scenario we examine an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) solution. The ABC Electronics wholesale organization needs to integrate with diverse external resellers. Each reseller may have their own internal representation of the data required in the order process. The EDI solution needs to translate internal order data of each partner into an agreed EDI-compatible format. It also needs to be capable of exchanging documents between partners over the Internet in a secure and reliable way.

Note

We didn't implement this solution in the ABC Electronics sample application provided with this redbook. For sample implementations using WebSphere Data Interchange, see the redpapers listed at the start of this chapter.

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