Hello,

Can BizTalk be integrated into a supply chain solution?
More specifically most of our vendors and businesses that
we communicate with use EDI.  However there are a few
that do not use EDI.

1. For the business that does not use EDI, can they send
us a standard formatted file that we define that is in
XML or a flat file, and map those properties to a
properly formatted EDI document such as an 850?

Thanks in advance!

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Yes, You can.

We have implemented a BizTalk EDI solution where our customer want to
talk with the EDI systems of his partners.

EDI messages we dealt with are 810,850,867,846,855.

All of his enterprise data will be in flat file.
We convert into XML and send as a EDI message when he wants to send the
information to his partners.

When his parters send him EDI messages, we'll convert them back as flat
files and update his system.

With biztalk, he could implement a EDI solution with minimal cost.

Regards,
R.Balaji


"Ryan" <ryanehobbs@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> Can BizTalk be integrated into a supply chain solution?
> More specifically most of our vendors and businesses that
> we communicate with use EDI.  However there are a few
> that do not use EDI.
>
> 1. For the business that does not use EDI, can they send
> us a standard formatted file that we define that is in
> XML or a flat file, and map those properties to a
> properly formatted EDI document such as an 850?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>

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Just to add to Mr. Balaji's excellent answer,

If the sender does not send enough information to properly create an 850
document, you will need to come up with a way to handle that... assuming you
want the output to be an EDI 850...

I just finished my third Biztalk project, and in each case, we did NOT
covert from flat file to EDI on the inbound channels.  We only converted
from flat files to EDI on the outbound channels.

In other words, the internal format was flat files.  Some folks wanted to
send EDI, others wanted to send flat files.
We created one mapping from EDI to the internal flat file format,
and another mapping from the inbound flat file to the internal flat file
format,

The reverse on the way out... for specific trading partners, the output was
either flat or EDI, depending on the trading partner.

Biztalk is DESIGNED to do these things.
Hope this helps,
--- Nick

"Ryan" <ryanehobbs@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> Can BizTalk be integrated into a supply chain solution?
> More specifically most of our vendors and businesses that
> we communicate with use EDI.  However there are a few
> that do not use EDI.
>
> 1. For the business that does not use EDI, can they send
> us a standard formatted file that we define that is in
> XML or a flat file, and map those properties to a
> properly formatted EDI document such as an 850?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>

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